- Upcoming smart Meta specs have been delayed
- The glasses will feature improved mixed reality technology.
- Meta needs “more breathing room” to make them
It looks like we’ll have to wait a little longer for Meta’s rumored mixed reality (MR) smart glasses to appear – the latest leak about the device suggests its launch has been pushed back from next year to 2027.
This comes from a pair of internal memos from Meta executives, apparently seen by Business Insider (via Engadget). He says the glasses, codenamed ‘Phoenix’, will be delayed so the company can have “more breathing room to get the details right.”
Another section of the memo says the final product will benefit: “There is a lot coming with tight release schedules and big changes to our core UX,” it reads, “and we won’t compromise on getting a fully polished and reliable experience.”
We don’t know much about these MRI glasses, but according to sources including The Information, they will be styled as glasses and will have a separate disk attachment to hold the battery (and perhaps some of the computing power).
Much more hardware on the way
Meta is now an experienced maker of augmented reality and virtual reality devices, of course, and the Meta Quest 4 is rumored to be on the way, although it’s unlikely to see the light of day before 2026 at the earliest, according to rumors.
The company also has its own smart specs, most recently in the form of the Meta Ray-Ban Display Glasses (with a separate neural band controller for your wrist) and the Ray-Ban Meta Gen 2 (without a display).
It looks like the ‘Phoenix’ update in the works could be somewhere between the smart glasses we’ve already seen and the larger Quest headsets, perhaps based on the Meta Orion glasses we’ve already seen, in prototype form.
We know from previous leaks that many AI wearables of various descriptions are on the way, including a wearable codenamed ‘Malibu 2’ according to the Business Insider article, but it looks like we’ll have to wait a little longer for one of them.
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