The company announced the Meta Quest 3 headset and new Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses. The new hardware comes with a vision for head-mounted computing that incorporates the real world a little bit more.
In a press event ahead of Meta Connect, the company said it has doubled the size of the LED light that indicates the glasses are recording. “We’ve had users tell us that they love the glasses, but they want people to know that they areglasses,” said Li-Chen Miller, vice president of product for Meta’s smart glasses and AI divisions. “That’s why we’re excited about this transparency.”
The new smart glasses go on sale October 17, starting at $299 for regular lenses, $379 for transition lenses, and probably a lot more than that for prescription lenses.I was able to briefly try the transparent Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses in advance. They fit comfortably and could easily be mistaken for real glasses, for better or worse. They wirelessly pair with a Meta app called Meta View, where photos and videos are transmitted.
Wearers can now livestream to Instagram from the glasses. This requires holding up a smartphone too, so you can open the Instagram app, initiate the livestream, and change your viewpoint—from selfie mode to whatever the glasses are seeing—during the livestream. During the demo this worked as promised, though my livestream was only visible on an internal test app. In real use cases, wearers would be able to audibly respond to commenters.
Meta’s new hardware products, both the Quest 3 and Ray-Ban glasses, offer more visibility into the real world—though that “real world” still includes a hefty dose of Meta apps.
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