Meta Connect 2025: the 6 biggest announcements

Meta conscionable showed disconnected each the latest successful wearable technology, virtual reality, augmented reality, and much astatine its yearly Connect keynote. In summation to the long-awaited uncover of Meta’s updated Ray-Ban astute glasses, the institution had immoderate different breathtaking surprises to share, too.

Here’s a roundup of each the caller tech and bundle updates announced by Meta.

Meta’s display-equipped astute specs marque their debut

Rumors person swirled for months astir Meta launching a brace of astute glasses with a display, and present they’re yet here. The glasses, dubbed the Meta Ray-Ban Display, diagnostic a full-color, high-res surface successful the close lens that you tin usage to presumption messages, instrumentality video calls, work unrecorded captions, spot walking directions, and preview the pictures you’re astir to instrumentality with the built-in 12-megapixel camera.

You power the show with a wristband, allowing you to scroll, click, and, eventually, constitute retired messages, utilizing antithetic gestures. The glasses connection up to six hours of “mixed-use” artillery life, oregon up to 30 hours with the collapsible charging case.

The Meta Ray-Ban Display glasses commencement astatine $799, with some the wristband and glasses coming successful achromatic oregon brown. The glasses volition beryllium disposable successful the US starting September 30th astatine Best Buy, LensCrafters, and Ray-Ban stores.

The next-gen Ray-Ban Meta astute glasses person longer artillery life

Meta is launching a caller mentation of its popular Ray-Ban astute glasses with an upgraded eight-hour artillery beingness that astir doubles that of the original model. The second-gen astute glasses inactive travel with a 12-megapixel ultra-wide camera, but they present enactment 3K video seizure and let wearers to grounds videos up to 60 frames per second.

Meta upgraded the charging lawsuit that comes included with the glasses, too, arsenic it present offers an other 48 hours of charging, up from 36 hours. There’s besides a caller “conversation focus” diagnostic coming to the Ray-Ban Meta and the Oakley Meta HSTN glasses that amplifies the dependable of the idiosyncratic speaking to you successful noisy areas.

The Ray-Ban Meta (Gen 2) glasses volition commencement astatine $379 and are disposable present successful the acquainted Wayfarer, Skyler, and Headliner styles.

New athlete-focused AI glasses integrate with Garmin and Strava

Meta is partnering with Oakley to motorboat a caller brace of astute glasses designed for “high-intensity sports.” The Oakley Meta Vanguard diagnostic a wraparound design, an IP67 standing for h2o and particulate resistance, on with integrations with fittingness apps similar Garmin and Strava, allowing you to inquire Meta AI astir your fittingness information and stats.

Additionally, the Vanguard glasses diagnostic a 12MP, 122-degree camera connected the chemoreceptor bridge, with the quality to grounds videos successful up to 3K resolution, and they enactment caller seizure modes, similar slow-motion, time-lapse, and hyperlapse, which are coming to Meta’s different AI glasses arsenic well. Some different standout features see upgraded speakers and up to 9 hours of artillery life.

The Oakley Meta Vanguard glasses outgo $499 and volition travel successful 4 framework and lens colour combinations erstwhile they motorboat connected October 21st. Preorders are disposable now.

Quest headsets tin present enactment existent spaces into VR

Meta’s caller Hyperscape diagnostic allows users wearing a Quest 3 oregon Quest 3S headset to scan their surroundings and alteration them into a integer space. The institution archetypal showed disconnected a demo of the diagnostic astatine Meta Connect past year, but present users tin effort retired a beta utilizing the Hyperscape Capture app.

A caller amusement hub for Quest headsets

Meta is putting a caller Horizon TV amusement hub wrong Quest headsets. There, you’ll find each of the streaming apps disposable connected Quest headsets, including Prime Video, Peacock, Twitch, and YouTube. Meta announced contiguous that Disney Plus, ESPN, and Hulu are besides launching apps connected the platform. 

The Horizon TV hub supports Dolby Atmos situation sound, and Meta plans connected adding Dolby Vision aboriginal this year. Some movies you ticker done Horizon TV, similar M3GAN and The Black Phone, volition besides travel with “immersive peculiar effects” that you tin lone spot wrong Quest headsets.

The motor powering the metaverse gets a boost

Meta revealed that its Horizon Engine “powers amended graphics, faster performance, and much precocious worlds.” The motor is susceptible of powering Meta’s caller Hyperscape feature, arsenic good arsenic allowing for larger capacities successful virtual worlds. Meta besides plans connected upgrading its Horizon Studio with an agentic AI adjunct that helps “stitch” unneurotic its existing AI tools that assistance radical marque virtual worlds.