Meta announced a slate of new wearables during its annual Meta Connect showcase on Wednesday. The star of the event was the new Meta VR Glasses, which pack virtual reality tech into a lightweight smart glasses-style frame with a tethered puck. Meta also announced new pairs of screen-free smart gl...
Instead of a new Quest headset, the company showed off a more portable but less immersive device today.
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They're a notable improvement over the company's earlier attempts at digital likeness.
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Meta's return to the VR glasses realm comes with a promising combination of light weight form factor and enhanced entertainment options.
The smart glasses are also arriving in five new markets this fall.
Sorry Apple, it looks like Meta's VR Glasses are the real Vision Pro successor.
At its Meta Connect event, CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced a handful of new smart glasses, including a slimmed-down VR headset and the company’s first camera-free glasses.
The Meta VR Glasses. | Photo by Brett Putman / The Verge Meta is launching new VR hardware: a pair of glasses. The new Meta VR Glasses sit on your ears like a typical pair of glasses instead of being strapped over your head, but they still have immersive displays for watching movies, playing g...
Just a couple of weeks after launching Muse, Meta announced that it's "working on" bringing the agent to its smart glasses, including the new glasses it unveiled at Meta Connect. Users will be able to activate Muse from their glasses by saying its name and ask it to handle tasks like guiding a wo...
Meta says the camera-free glasses will be lighter and have up to 12 hours battery life.
Blackpink in your upper-facial area.
The Ray-Ban Meta Audio Glasses have no cameras. | Photo by Brett Putman / The Verge Walking around Meta Connect 2026, everyone's sporting smart glasses in all sorts of shapes, colors, and sizes. It's a marked difference here, a tech bubble where "pervert glasses" are not a concern. Outside Conn...
The latest lineup comes in two new frame styles: Aviator and Zena.
Nothing says Italian craftsmanship like a Chinese robot doing a lasso to "L'Amour Toujours."
That's one way to avoid the whole surreptitious recording issues.
The company is bringing its Private Processing encryption service to its much-maligned smart glasses.
After a free trial it'll cost $150 to add on, or require a Meta One subscription.
Have your virtual assistant book a flight while you're jogging.