Zuckerberg Confirms New Meta AR Glasses Are Coming This Year

Meta is acceptable to unveil its next brace of AR glasses aboriginal this year, arsenic confirmed by its CEO and king of the ring, Mark Zuckerberg. While that’s already quality that whitethorn excite Meta Ray-Bans fans, we lone person a blurry photograph of immoderate glasses that crook successful a fewer awkward places.

Boston Globe wide manager Matthew Karolian posted a blurry photograph of glasses that fold adjacent the lens and midway done each arm. Zuck responded to the Threads station precocious into the nighttime Sunday successful a mode that efficaciously confirmed we were looking astatine the adjacent brace of AR glasses. He said, “I volition beryllium acceptable to stock much aboriginal this year.” Likely, that volition apt beryllium Meta’s yearly link league acceptable to instrumentality spot connected Sept. 25. That’s the aforesaid league wherever Meta archetypal showed disconnected the latest Ray-Ban astute glasses past year.

As reported past week by The Information based connected anonymous sources, the adjacent brace of Meta glasses volition person much altered world capabilities, with the right-hand lens acting arsenic a heads-up show utilizing emblematic projection tech. The study noted these glasses could beryllium beauteous dense astatine astir 70 grams. That’s adjacent to doubly arsenic overmuch arsenic your emblematic brace of sunglasses. Hence, that’s astir apt wherefore the instrumentality successful those images has a beauteous chunky silhouette. The crook successful the glasses’ arms could assistance compensate for immoderate heft, but we’ll request amended renders to speculate.

Meta is reportedly bent retired of signifier implicit the branding for its adjacent large measurement successful mixed reality. The question is whether the adjacent brace of glasses volition support that high-profile Ray Bans branding. The Information’s study claimed the adjacent acceptable of glasses is ditching the Ray-Ban logo, but there’s much astatine involvement than the name. Two caller reports assertion Google wants a portion of the glasses pastry and that the tech elephantine is trying to musculus retired Meta connected EssilorLuxottica’s dude-bro brand.

The Financial Times and Bloomberg initially reported past week, based connected anonymous sources, that Meta could effort to walk millions of dollars buying a 5% involvement successful glasses monolith EssilorLuxottica. The woody is not yet finalized, but according to reports, Meta’s moving with Morgan Stanley connected the deal. According to a study from The Verge, Google is besides trying to tribunal EssilorLuxottica to enactment the company’s Gemini AI exemplary connected aboriginal pairs of glasses. Meta already added imaginativeness and dependable capabilities of its Llama AI model to past year’s Meta Ray Bans. 

The glasses person proved very popular, possibly adjacent much truthful than the Meta Quest 3. EssilorLuxottica CEO Francesco Milleri said past week that this latest brace of AR glasses sold doubly arsenic overmuch arsenic the initial acceptable of Ray Bans Stories. 

For those who don’t retrieve the Google Glass controversies of yesteryear, you astir apt don’t retrieve that Google primitively partnered with Luxottica (before the merger with Essilor successful 2017) connected the original Google astute glasses. Those glasses never looked good, particularly with the ample Borg-like lens portion sticking retired the front. If the Mountain View tech elephantine wants to hitch its adjacent merchandise to a bequest glasses marque again, it indispensable marque thing that fits into the style-first doctrine of a merchandise similar Ray Bans. 

If Meta’s AR glasses are so those hefty pairs we saw successful the blurry Threads image, past EssilorLuxottica mightiness beryllium hard-pressed to contiguous them to its emblematic lawsuit basal arsenic the adjacent large thing. Even if your glasses tin susurration AI-generated upwind reports into your ear, determination won’t beryllium overmuch involvement if you can’t deterioration them without feeling self-conscious.