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Meta Connect 2026: The 7 biggest announcements
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This year’s Meta Connect featured a new lightweight VR wearable and camera-free Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses.
This year’s Meta Connect featured a new lightweight VR wearable and camera-free Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses.
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Meta announced a slate of new wearables during its annual Meta Connect showcase on Wednesday. The star of the event was the new Meta VR Glasses, which pack virtual reality tech into a lightweight smart glasses-style frame with a tethered puck. Meta also announced new pairs of screen-free smart glasses, along with some new AI features and style and frame options.
You can catch up on all the highlights from this year’s Meta Connect below.
Meta’s latest wearable offers full virtual reality in a smart glasses-style form factor. Unlike a typical VR headset, the VR Glasses don’t have any straps, and Meta says they’re “five times lighter than Meta Quest 3” at just 100g. Similar to Google’s Project Aura, the glasses are tethered to a pocket-sized puck with the compute hardware, battery, and storage, including a Qualcomm Snapdragon Reality Elite, 128GB of storage, and 12GB of RAM. The 5K micro OLED “Infinite Display” has 2412 x 2288 pixels per eye, with a refresh rate of up to 120Hz.