Meta Connect 2025 live updates: Ray-Bans 2, Hypernova smart glasses, Oakley, more

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.

By Cesar Cadenas, Writer / Sept. 16 astatine 8:10 p.m. ET

Meta Connect 2025 won't beryllium wholly devoted to Hypernova, arsenic a caller leak has revealed that determination volition beryllium astatine slightest 1 different product. Earlier this week, Meta accidentally uploaded a teaser trailer for a caller brace of astute glasses that could beryllium called the Meta Ray Ban Display.

As the sanction suggests, these wearables volition "feature a monocular HUD that projects navigation pathways [via a representation app], translations, messages, and speech with the Meta AI assistant." Text 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.

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Compared to existent Meta Ray Ban models, the Ray Ban Display is importantly bulkier, particularly astir the corners. The other size is astir apt a effect of each the further tech needed to enactment integer displays. 

I should notation that Meta could besides denote caller astute glasses with its different partner, Oakley. Another leak spilled the beans connected the "rumoured Oakley Meta Sphaera," which volition person a camera lens successful the halfway for capturing footage. 

By Jason Howell, Contributor / Sept. 16 astatine 8:05 p.m. ET

For the event, it appears the tech elephantine is going large arsenic Meta volition reportedly unveil a caller brace of high-end astute glasses, codenamed Hypernova, susceptible of displaying a graphical interface and tracking manus gestures, among different things. Much of the accusation surrounding Hypernova comes from unnamed sources who spoke to manufacture insider Mark Gurman of Bloomberg.

According to this report, the astute glasses could outgo astir $800 (and arsenic overmuch arsenic $1,400.) For comparison, the Oakley HSTN are presently Meta's astir costly wearables, and they lone outgo $479. The monolithic terms quality is owed to a "monocular panel" located successful the bottommost right-hand country of the close lens. Because of the panel's location, on-screen accusation volition lone beryllium displayed implicit your close eye, and you'll person to look down to spot a location screen.

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This location surface volition dwell of preinstalled apps, which see a camera, representation gallery, and map. Additionally, Hypernova could perchance link to smartphones to show texts and notifications connected the integer screen. A due sanction has yet to beryllium revealed oregon leaked; however, rumors assertion that the $800 astute glasses whitethorn beryllium called Meta Celeste.

By Cesar Cadenas, Writer / Sept. 16 astatine 7:50 p.m. ET

Gurman's study mentions that Meta volition "begin offering a alleged neural wristband [codenamed Ceres] for the archetypal time." This volition beryllium an accompanying accessory to Hypernova 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.

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Not overmuch is known astir Ceres; however, early renders and images of the accessory person leaked. These renders amusement Ceres could beryllium a bracelet of sorts made chiefly retired of gray, elastic textile cloth, with the interior broadside holding a bid of "high-performance EMG sensors." 

These sensors seizure the electrical signals mentioned earlier, which are past sent to an interior processor to "produce input events" connected the astute glasses. It adjacent has a haptic motor delivering tactile feedback to the user.

By Cesar Cadenas, Writer / Sept. 16 astatine 7:31 p.m. ET

Meta whitethorn unveil the caller 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. It's taken a small while, but the fruits of these collaborations are bearing fruit.

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

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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.

Sadly, 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.