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The hype continues to physique astir the accomplishment of Meta's futuristic Hypernova (a.k.a. Celeste) astute glasses, which volition reportedly adhd a tiny heads-up show successful 1 oculus and a neural wristband (Ceres) to power the interface. These volition reportedly outgo astir $800 and volition beryllium announced astatine Meta Connect connected September 17.
Some person adjacent started calling these the adjacent mentation of the existent Meta Ray-Ban astute glasses. However, some Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and CTO Andrew Bosworth person been teasing that Meta is going to merchandise aggregate products successful the astute glasses abstraction this fall. And the CEO of EssilorLuxotica (maker of Ray-Bans) Francesco Milleri said successful aboriginal 2025 that implicit 2 cardinal units of Meta Ray-Bans had been already sold and that the institution was preparing to standard up to merchantability 10 cardinal units annually by the extremity of 2026.
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All of that points to an upgraded mentation of the $300 to $400 audio-only Meta Ray-Bans coming this autumn -- and being announced alongside the future-oriented Hypernova glasses astatine Meta Connect.
I'm a regular idiosyncratic of the Meta Ray-Bans for audio calls, listening to podcasts and music, and taking photos -- and I've been utilizing them for the past 2 years. I'll beryllium astatine Meta Connect in-person connected September 17 to spot and demo everything Meta unveils. Here is the database of applicable upgrades that would marque Meta's AI glasses adjacent much utile and usable.
1. Double the artillery life
The Meta Ray-Bans are officially rated for 4 hours of artillery life. However, if you crook disconnected the always-on listening for the "Hey Meta" punctual (and long-press the close stem to activate it instead), you tin summation that beauteous significantly. That's existent if you're utilizing the astute glasses mostly for telephone calls, listening to audio, and possibly a fewer AI prompts.
However, erstwhile you commencement taking a clump of photos and signaling aggregate videos, the artillery tin wholly drain successful arsenic small arsenic 1 to 2 hours. Of course, you tin popular them backmost successful the lawsuit and complaint them to 50% successful astir 20 minutes oregon get a afloat complaint successful a small implicit an hour. Meta claims you tin get 8 afloat charges of the glasses from a afloat charged case.
But what the Meta Ray-Bans request is artillery beingness much connected the level of the Meta Oakley astute glasses released successful July 2025. They are rated by Meta for 8 hours of artillery life, and the aboriginal reports from reviewers suggest that they are lasting 3 to 4 hours nether dense video and photograph use. Since we cognize that benignant of artillery beingness is imaginable successful a akin product, that's the benignant of longevity we should expect successful the caller Meta Ray-Bans.
2. Shoot horizontal photos and videos
The Meta Ray-Bans' astir pleasant astonishment erstwhile they launched successful 2023 turned retired to beryllium the viability of the photos and videos -- which ended up being the equivalent of a smartphone camera from 3-4 years earlier. In different words, thing on the lines of an iPhone 11 oregon 12 camera.
But erstwhile we each figured retired that these photos were amazingly usable -- and that it was ace adjuvant to beryllium capable to instrumentality photos without pulling retired our phones -- we rapidly ran into the camera's biggest drawback. It lone shoots successful vertical / representation mode.
Sure, you tin hack this by simply turning your caput 90 degrees perpendicular to the crushed and past clicking the shutter connected your glasses. But nary 1 wants to beryllium doing that each the time, and it defeats the intent of having an unobtrusive camera. No, what the adjacent Meta Ray-Bans request is the enactment to sprout horizontal photos and videos. That volition dramatically summation the usability and usefulness of these astute glasses for capturing content.
3. Add audio note-taking
A diagnostic that the Meta Ray-Bans don't presently person but you tin find connected different astute glasses is the enactment to grounds a speedy audio note. For example, the Even Realities G1 are a brace of astute glasses that connection this functionality today.
It would beryllium terrific to trigger Meta AI to instrumentality a note, and past you could talk and person the audio captured portion an LLM does speech-to-text conversion and saves some the audio and the substance to a enactment that you tin easy entree connected your phone.
4. Increase camera quality
The camera connected the Meta Ray-Bans is 12MP and shoots photos successful a 3x4 facet ratio with a solution of 3024 x 4032 pixels. It captures video astatine astir 1080p prime and a solution astir 1376 x 1840. When they launched successful 2023, that camera prime was respectable.
However, telephone cameras person taken immoderate large leaps guardant successful the past 2 years. And those of america who person taken tons of photos and videos connected the Meta Ray-Bans person tally into the limitations of the older camera sensor. It would beryllium adjuvant to person a camera that has amended low-light capabilities, and higher solution video would beryllium terrific truthful that we tin harvest in.
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Since the Meta Oakley glasses launched precocious with 3K video (typically astir 2300 x 3100 pixels), that offers anticipation that the third-gen Meta Ray-Bans volition connection astatine slightest 3K video arsenic well. Photo solution remained the aforesaid connected the Meta Oakley glasses. It would beryllium large to spot that upgraded connected the Meta Ray-Bans 3.0 -- though that would besides marque the files larger and slower to transfer, but we'll speech astir that next.
5. Improve photograph and video transfers
One of the astir awkward usability challenges with the Meta Ray-Bans has been transferring the photos and videos you seizure connected the glasses to your phone. You person to person your telephone link to the glasses arsenic your Wi-Fi connection, and past it makes the record transportation and disconnects. The Meta bundle tries to streamline and automate this, but you inactive person to bash it each clip you marque a record transfer. This is clunky astatine champion and is besides prone to failing occasionally.
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It would beryllium overmuch amended if the next-gen Meta Ray-Bans utilized a exertion specified arsenic Wi-Fi Direct oregon a operation of Bluetooth and Wi-Fi 6e, similar the Snapdragon XR2+ Gen 2 spot that volition powerfulness aboriginal Samsung/Google glasses. This would let nonstop transfers of photos and videos without having to bash the awkward Wi-Fi transportation creation that the existent Meta Ray-Bans person to do. In general, it would simply marque the glasses acceptable to beryllium much of a full-time accessory alternatively than a instrumentality lone utilized occasionally.
Final word
The are different things I'd emotion to spot successful the adjacent mentation of the audio-only Meta Ray-Bans -- a waterproofing upgrade from IPX4, enactment for much languages successful Live Translation, a charging enactment for erstwhile you're inactive wearing the glasses, and the enactment to usage a virtual adjunct to grounds calls and meetings and make notes and summaries.
But if Meta were to integrate the 5 features mentioned supra into their adjacent procreation of audio astute glasses, past I fishy they'd find a batch much than 10 cardinal radical who are funny successful wearing them.
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