{"id":176307,"date":"2025-08-26T06:26:15","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T06:26:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/176307\/"},"modified":"2025-08-26T06:26:15","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T06:26:15","slug":"meta-to-debut-smart-glasses-at-septembers-connect-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/176307\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta to Debut Smart Glasses at September\u2019s \u2018Connect\u2019 Event"},"content":{"rendered":"

Meta<\/a> reportedly plans to introduce its new smart glasses at next month\u2019s \u201cConnect\u201d conference.<\/p>\n

Those glasses, Meta\u2019s first to feature a consumer-ready display, will be announced at the annual conference along with a wristband that lets users control the glasses via hand gestures, CNBC reported<\/a> Friday (Aug. 22), citing sources familiar with the matter.<\/p>\n

The glasses, codenamed \u201cHypernova\u201d inside Meta, will include a small digital display in the right lens, the sources said. While this will be the company\u2019s first pair of smart glasses with a display, Meta is keeping its sales expectations low, sources told CNBC.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The reason? The device needs more components than its voice-only predecessors and will be somewhat heavier and thicker. The Connect conference is scheduled for Sept. 17 and 18. PYMNTS has contacted Meta for comment but has not yet gotten a reply.<\/p>\n

The report follows news from last week about the company\u2019s plans for Hypernova<\/a>, as well as Meta\u2019s intent to price them at $800 instead of the initial target of $1,000. Meta\u2019s Ray-Ban<\/a> glasses are priced at $200 to $400, while its Oakley<\/a> smart glasses sell for up to $500.<\/p>\n

A report from Bloomberg News said the glasses would feature a screen for apps and alerts on one lens, while also mentioning the planned wrist control device.<\/p>\n

And a report last week from CNET said that while the Hypernova smart glasses are designed to be used with a mobile phone, they hint at a future when glasses could supplant phones.<\/p>\n

There are also rumors that Hypernova could have a smartphone-quality camera and a voice-activated artificial intelligence query tool, Frederick Stanbrell<\/a>, head of wearables for EMEA at IDC<\/a>, said in an interview with CNET.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are likely seeing the first generation of a device that Mark Zuckerberg intends to one day replace phones,\u201d Stanbrell said.<\/p>\n

Meta\u2019s partner on the Ray-Ban glasses, EssilorLuxottica<\/a>, said last month that the sales had jumped by more than 200%<\/a> in the first six months of the year.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Google is working on its own smart glasses in partnership<\/a> with eyewear brands Gentle Monster<\/a> and Warby Parker<\/a>, with the goal of making them an ever-present artificial intelligence (AI) assistant.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat if your AI assistant could see the world from your perspective and offer hands-free help? That\u2019s the vision driving our latest advancements in Android XR,\u201d Shahram Izadi, vice president and general manager of Android XR at Google, said in May.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Meta reportedly plans to introduce its new smart glasses at next month\u2019s \u201cConnect\u201d conference. Those glasses, Meta\u2019s first…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":176308,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[691,38649,12463,65460,340,50,100132,751,100133,38650,158,67,132,68,20267,756],"class_list":{"0":"post-176307","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-android-xr","10":"tag-editors-picks","11":"tag-essilorluxottica","12":"tag-meta","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-oakley","15":"tag-pymnts-news","16":"tag-ray-ban","17":"tag-smart-glasses","18":"tag-technology","19":"tag-united-states","20":"tag-unitedstates","21":"tag-us","22":"tag-wearables","23":"tag-whats-hot"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115093647048331430","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176307\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}