{"id":352271,"date":"2025-08-17T18:32:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-17T18:32:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/352271\/"},"modified":"2025-08-17T18:32:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-17T18:32:13","slug":"meta-reportedly-gets-upcoming-hud-glasses-down-to-800","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/352271\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta Reportedly Gets Upcoming HUD Glasses Down To $800"},"content":{"rendered":"

Meta now plans to sell its upcoming HUD glasses with sEMG wristband for around $800, instead of over $1000, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman reports.<\/p>\n

The Verge, The Information, The Financial Times, and Gurman have all previously reported that Meta intends to release smart glasses with a small monocular heads-up display (HUD) this year, codenamed Hypernova, controlled by finger gestures from its long-in-development sEMG neural wristband, set to be included in the box.<\/p>\n

\"\"Meta Celeste render in leaked early firmware.<\/p>\n

These reports suggest that the small HUD will be used to show the time, weather, and notifications, to frame and preview photos, for turn-by-turn navigation, to show captions and translations of real-world speech, and to optionally display Meta AI responses as text instead of audio.<\/p>\n

According to The Information, the addition of the HUD brings Hypernova to around 70 grams, compared to the 50 grams of Ray-Ban Meta glasses.<\/p>\n

In July, renders of Hypernova and its wristband were discovered<\/a> in early firmware\u00a0on a public Meta server, and an engraving visible in one of the renders seemingly revealed the product’s name: Meta Celeste.<\/p>\n

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Meta HUD Glasses Name, Design & EMG Wristband Gestures Leak<\/p>\n

The name, design, and key finger gestures of Meta\u2019s smart glasses with a HUD and neural wristband, expected to launch in October, have leaked.<\/p>\n

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Back in April, Gurman said that Meta planned to sell Hypernova for “over $1000 and as high as $1300 to $1400”.<\/p>\n

But now, in the latest edition<\/a> of his weekly newsletter, Gurman reports that Meta has “figured out a way to slash the price for consumers down to about $800”. This, he explains, comes partially from Meta deciding to accept a lower profit margin to boost demand.<\/p>\n

At this price, Celeste will be an interesting experiment as to how valuable a small HUD and finger gesture controls are for smart glasses, and whether they justify a higher price and slightly bulkier design. Is current technology sufficient to attract demand for a higher-end offering? Or is the relatively low price, sleek design, branding, and store availability of Ray-Ban Meta inherent to its success<\/a>?<\/p>\n

This roughly $800 will only be the starting point however, Gurman notes, and the various style and lens options, such as prescription lenses, will “quickly push up the cost” for many people.<\/p>\n

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Meta\u2019s CTO Teases What To Expect At Connect 2025<\/p>\n

Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth teased what to expect at Meta Connect 2025, which takes place in September.<\/p>\n

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Meta Connect 2025<\/a>\u00a0will take place from September 17, and we expect Meta to announce Celeste and open preorders for shipping in October, assuming it doesn’t get delayed.<\/p>\n

In April, Gurman\u00a0reported<\/a>\u00a0that some Meta employees were working weekends to ship the HUD glasses on time. Exactly one month from now, we should know whether these efforts succeeded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Meta now plans to sell its upcoming HUD glasses with sEMG wristband for around $800, instead of over…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":352272,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3162],"tags":[53,16,15,3243,3244],"class_list":{"0":"post-352271","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-virtual-reality","8":"tag-technology","9":"tag-uk","10":"tag-united-kingdom","11":"tag-virtual-reality","12":"tag-vr"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115045541482023610","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=352271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352271\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/352272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}