Meta Connect 2025 live updates: Ray-Ban Display, Oakley Vanguard glasses, more

By Cesar Cadenas, Writer / Sept. 17 astatine 8:43 p.m. ET
Powering Horizon Studio is Meta Horizon Engine, a caller proprietary graphical motor that is optimized for generative creation. The motor volition besides alteration a much immersive and interactive metaverse.

By Cesar Cadenas, Writer / Sept. 17 astatine 8:41 p.m. ET
Meta has announced Meta Horizon Studio, a generative AI playground that'll let users to make miniature virtual worlds via verbal prompts. Examples see a UFC octagon ring, a virtual home, and an underwater seascape.

By Sabrina Ortiz, Senior Editor /Sept. 17 astatine 8:40 p.m. ET

And that's it for the glasses. Now, we are moving connected to AI successful the virtual world. This is kicking disconnected Meta Horizon Studio. This is meant to fto creators make full worlds from elemental prompts.

By Sabrina Ortiz, Senior Editor /Sept. 17 astatine 8:35 p.m. ET

It wouldn't beryllium an AI-focused lawsuit if  "agentic AI" weren't mentioned. In this example, Meta AI shows suggestions in-lens utilizing the discourse of your conversations. These actions see adding items to your calendar oregon adjacent conscionable hunt results.

By Cesar Cadenas, Writer / Sept. 17 astatine 8:34 p.m. ET
Live AI connected the Meta Ray-Ban Display volition person constricted usage astatine launch. But implicit the adjacent respective months, Live AI tin grow its acceptable of features, and among these, it volition beryllium capable to present a unrecorded provender of contextually important information.

By Sabrina Ortiz, Senior Editor /Sept. 17 astatine 8:30 p.m. ET

In a unrecorded demo of the Meta Ray-Ban Display glasses, Zuckerberg went beyond messaging. He tried answering video calls utilizing the Neural Band. However, determination were method difficulties that caused this demo to fail. That's amusement biz! A much palmy effort was raising the measurement connected Spotify by simply making the question of turning up a measurement nob. 

By Cesar Cadenas, Writer / Sept. 17 astatine 8:28 p.m. ET
The Meta Neural Band is, arsenic the sanction suggests, a wristband that lets users power the integer show utilizing elemental manus gestures. In a unrecorded demo, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg utilized the Neural Band to constitute and nonstop texts. He mimicked the question of penning with a pen to benignant retired a text.

By Cesar Cadenas, Writer / Sept. 17 astatine 8:27 p.m. ET
Meta besides announced its 3rd acceptable of astute glasses astatine Connect 2025, the Meta Ray-Ban Display, and its accompanying accessory, the Meta Neural Band. The wearables task a integer show implicit the close oculus that reportedly runs astatine a precocious solution and 5,000 nits of brightness. 

By Sabrina Ortiz, Senior Editor /Sept. 17 astatine 8:24 p.m. ET

The Meta Oakley Vanguards person an integration with Strava, which allows you to perceive astir your stats arsenic you run. Given the intended assemblage of athletes and runners, this seems similar a diagnostic radical volition find useful.

By Cesar Cadenas, Writer / Sept. 17 astatine 8:22 p.m. ET

In collaboration with sunglasses marque Oakley, Meta volition soon merchandise a caller sports-focused brace of astute glasses called the Meta Oakley Vanguard. This wearable houses a 12MP camera successful the halfway of its framework for signaling 3K video, positive enactment for Meta's AI adjunct and a h2o absorption standing of IP67. Prices commencement astatine $499 and vessel connected Oct. 21. 

By Sabrina Ortiz, Senior Editor /Sept. 17 astatine 8:15 p.m. ET

If you, similar me, already dropped a full batch of wealth connected the archetypal procreation of Meta Ray-Bans, there's bully quality for you. A caller Audio Boost diagnostic is coming to older models via a bundle update. What it does is amplify conversations you are having successful existent beingness to besides assistance you arsenic you navigate the existent world.

By Sabrina Ortiz, Senior Editor /Sept. 17 astatine 8:12 p.m. ET

I person worn the Meta Ray-Bans for astir a twelvemonth and my biggest ailment was not being capable to marque it done the day. Zuckerberg conscionable announced the adjacent procreation volition person treble the battery, which volition yet marque it past a full time of use. Huge win!

By Kerry Wan, Managing Editor / Sept. 17 astatine 4:37 p.m. ET

There's a batch happening wrong the confines of Meta HQ today, overmuch of which we can't speech astir conscionable yet, but I tin stock this monolithic skateboard ramp.

It's harmless to accidental that Meta is continuing to people athletes and sports fans with its astute glasses, pitching the wearables arsenic a hands-free alternate to much traditioanl enactment cameras.

By Kerry Wan, Managing Editor / Sept. 17 astatine 3:46 p.m. ET

Ahead of Meta Connect, CEO Mark Zuckerberg hinted connected Threads that today's announcements volition see assorted digit emojis, from penning with a stylus to making digit hearts.

In different words, the neural wristband that's been teased for astir a twelvemonth whitethorn yet travel to market. It would let users to run their astute glasses and headsets with pinches, swipes, and taps. The question is however fluid and reliable astatine tracking the accessory is.

Here's to hoping for a unrecorded objection during this afternoon's keynote.

By Kerry Wan, Managing Editor / Sept. 17 astatine 2:50 p.m. ET

ZDNET's Jason Hiner and I are officially connected the crushed for Meta Connect. Lots of excitement successful the air, Meta signage, and radical wearing Ray-Bans. Stay tuned for more.

Arguably, the astir important announcement astatine Connect 2025 was the uncover of the Meta Ray Ban Display. These are a caller mentation of the astute glasses that task a tiny readout surface implicit your close eye.

Before the event, assorted rumors claimed the wearables would "feature a monocular HUD that projects navigation pathways [via a representation app], translations, messages, and speech with the Meta AI assistant." The exemplary would person a importantly bulkier design, chiefly astir the corners, to relationship for each the other tech needed to enactment said integer displays. It seems those claims were close connected the money. 

However, determination is inactive plentifulness astir the Ray Ban Display that we don't know. Those aforesaid rumors besides stated that substance boxes, maps, and the similar seemingly enactment static. They won't latch onto objects successful beforehand of you similar an AR (augmented reality) headset would.

Much astir the astute glasses remains successful the dark, but I'm definite we'll find retired sooner oregon later.

Initial reports and rumors claimed that Meta's aboriginal wearable would beryllium expensive. The Ray Ban Display, successful particular, was said to outgo $1,400. While these are pricey devices, nary of the models are anyplace adjacent $1,400.

• The Meta Ray Ban Display volition motorboat connected September 30 and retail for $799. It'll beryllium disposable successful 2 colors: Black and Sand. Each acquisition volition see a escaped Meta Neural Band.
• Meta's Oakley Vanguard volition outgo $499 starting, with units shipping connected October 21.
• The second-generation Ray Ban smartglasses are presently connected merchantability and outgo $379 a pair.

Initial reports mentioned that Meta would "begin offering a alleged neural wristband [codenamed Ceres] for the archetypal time." It appears that this instrumentality was the Meta Neural Band shown disconnected astatine Connect 2025. This is an accompanying accessory to the Meta Ray Band Display that converts electrical signals from wrist muscles into motion controls. For example, rotating your hands volition fto you scroll done apps, and a digit pinch volition let users to prime circumstantial items.

The presumption for the Neural Band was short. There's inactive overmuch we don't know. Those aboriginal reports said the set would person a haptic motor delivering tactile feedback to the user. Meta's merchandise leafage for the Ray Ban Display doesn't accidental overmuch astir the accessory, focusing chiefly connected the wearable.

Once again, rumors claimed that Meta mightiness person unveiled the Asus ROG Tarius, a VR headset that volition beryllium the archetypal third-party instrumentality to tally connected Horizon OS, connected Wednesday. Meta opened its operating strategy to third-party companies in April 2024. But the Tarius was a no-show. It didn't marque a azygous quality astatine Connect 2025, and it didn't adjacent get a notation oregon hint. Perhaps the Tarius needs much clip successful the oven. 

Considering that it'll beryllium nether the Asus ROG umbrella, Tarius is apt to beryllium a gaming-centric device. Much of the accusation that we presently person comes from a single leak that surfaced successful January of this year. 

Also: I tried astute glasses with a built-in display, and they bushed my Meta Ray-Bans successful cardinal ways

It claims Tarius volition enactment some oculus and look tracking. The surface wrong the visor volition either beryllium micro-OLED oregon QD-LED with section dimming. Assuming this is each true, the QD-LED screens could beryllium utilized to execute precocious amounts of contrast.

That's beauteous overmuch each we know. No connection connected what it'll look similar oregon what kinds of games it'll support. We don't adjacent cognize what chipset it'll run. Could it eschew much towards the Meta Quest 3 and present a top-notch performance, oregon volition it beryllium similar the Quest 3S and beryllium little almighty successful favour of having a little terms tag? It's hard to accidental astatine the moment.