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Meta is renewing its quest to make virtual reality a thing. At Connect on Wednesday, the company announced Meta VR Glasses, its newest entry into the VR market. These glasses actually seem quite promising given their substantially lighter form factor and a host of new entertainment integrations — including (allegedly) IMAX compatibility.

At Meta Connect 2026, Mark Zuckerberg unveiled Meta VR Glasses, a lightweight device with an advanced display, voice and hand controls, and integration with the company’s AI agent, Muse. The glasses will cost $1,299 and launch in spring 2027.

Meta (META) launched three new pairs of smart glasses during the company’s Meta Connect conference on Wednesday.

The new Ray-Ban Meta Gen 3 AI glasses come in various styles, with or without a camera. Photograph: MetaThe new Ray-Ban Meta Gen 3 AI glasses come in various styles, with or without a camera. Photograph: Meta

Meta VR Glasses want to be a portable immersive package. Scott Stein/CNET

Smart glasses and VR headsets have a big, gaping rift that a keen manufacturer could fill. Evan Spiegel has been working to bring the best of both worlds to consumers with a pair of glasses that combine the Ray-Ban AI glasses with popular VR headsets like the Meta Quest 3. Evan’s brand, Snap, has been working under the…

You put on a pair of glasses, make eye contact with a stranger also wearing them, and a set of dominoes appears floating on the table between you. That’s the moment from Snap’s first public hands-on with Specs, the company’s standalone AR glasses that went up for pre-order in June and start shipping to the…

SAVE $140: As of Aug. 25, the Viture Beast XR/AR Glasses are down to $548.98 at Amazon. That’s a 20% discount off their $689 list price.

Job Simulator: Human Relations went live on August 11. It is the first thing in that franchise to exist outside a headset in the ten years the franchise has been around, a four-player flatscreen co-op comedy built by FarBridge under license from Owlchemy Labs, and it is asking for $150,000. As I write this it…

With technology such as cameras, displays, and sensors built into their frames, smart glasses can provide augmented reality (AR) views, AI assistants, and Instagrammable snapshots directly on your face. I’ve been covering smart glasses since they first hit the market and have seen them evolve from basic phone-tethered wearable displays into wireless mixed-reality marvels. They’re…