Meta unveils new glasses lineup

At Meta Connect in Menlo Park, CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced three new smart glasses models: upgraded Ray-Ban Meta Gen 3, lightweight Meta VR Glasses, and camera-free Ray-Ban Meta Audio.

Privacy concerns drive camera-free option

Meta has faced months of controversy about privacy issues in its camera-enabled smart glasses. The solution is Ray-Ban Meta Audio, a pair with all audio capabilities but no cameras for video or photo capture.

Ray-Ban Meta Audio specs and price

The Ray-Ban Meta Audio weigh forty-three grams and offer twelve hours of battery life on a single charge, or up to forty-eight hours with the charging case. They cost three hundred forty-nine dollars and ship October ten.

Meta VR Glasses are five times lighter

Meta's new VR Glasses look like big goggles and are five times lighter than the Meta Quest three. They sit on the nose without a headstrap and feature a five K micro-OLED display with a resolution of twenty-four twelve by twenty-two eighty-eight pixels per eye.

VR Glasses use hand and eye control

Users control the VR Glasses with hand movements and finger pinches, similar to Apple's Vision Pro. Eye tracking pinpoints what you're trying to access. Pinch with two fingers to open an app, or form a fist and flick your thumb to scroll.

VR Glasses cost and release date

Meta says the VR Glasses cost one thousand three hundred dollars and will ship in the spring of twenty twenty-seven. They run the same software as Meta's Quest VR devices, so existing games and apps will work.

Ray-Ban Meta Gen 3 gets upgrades

Meta's flagship Ray-Ban Meta Gen 3 glasses have twelve megapixel cameras and three K Dolby Atmos video capture. Battery life increases to nine hours. A new six-microphone array improves sound and cuts background noise. A hearing aid feature enhances speech.

Ray-Ban Gen 3 pricing and availability

Ray-Ban Meta Gen 3 glasses start at four hundred forty-nine dollars. Special-edition aviator glasses cost five hundred seventy-nine dollars. Models designed with Kylie Jenner and rapper Lisa are also available now. Meta-branded Gen 3 glasses cost two hundred ninety-nine dollars.

Muse Charm coming by holiday season

Meta teased the Muse Charm, a new product for people who don't wear glasses. CEO Mark Zuckerberg says it's the fastest way to talk to Meta's AI agent and show it the world around you. Meta plans to have it ready by the holiday season.

“the fastest way to talk to your Muse”