Meta's annual developer conference, which began as a dedicated VR event and now covers its headsets, smart glasses and platform software.
Meta has been ordered or agreed to pay nearly $19bn over youth-harm claims this year while use of its apps keeps rising, the BBC reports. For a $2tn company the cash is small. The cost still to be measured is the screen-time limits Meta agreed to impose on young users.
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Meta unveiled Ray-Ban Audio, its first smart glasses without a camera, at Connect alongside a third generation of its camera Ray-Bans. It is the one Connect privacy change a venue's device rule can act on, since Private Processing has not reached the glasses yet.
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Meta made Muse the centerpiece of Connect, aiming the agent at consumers while OpenAI and Anthropic chase coding and enterprise work. The one hands-on report describes a one-off win. A daily habit would run on sensitive data given to an ad company.
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Meta will put voice-driven scanned avatars into WhatsApp calls from its $799 Ray-Ban Display glasses this fall, ahead of its spring 2027 VR Glasses. The first people to see them will be on ordinary phones, looking at a face where a glasses call used to show the wearer's view.
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Meta will let games built in its two new AI tools, Horizon Create and Horizon Studio, play inside Facebook and Instagram feeds with no download. For a Horizon platform that has struggled to draw players, the feed slot matters more to creators than the prompt box.
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The third-generation Ray-Ban Meta glasses start at £409/€449 and $449, and ZDNET reports Meta left the camera LED and sensors physically unchanged, handling tamper protection in software backed by account bans.
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Meta demoed unreleased audio-only glasses with six microphones and no camera, soon after critics accused it of selling 'pervert glasses.' Leaving out the camera deals with the recording complaint from bystanders, though the Muse voice agent that comes with the glasses mistook conversation for commands in a TechCrunch demo.
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Meta published a prescription-lens app for HorizonOS, and the image files inside it gave UploadVR a detailed look at a slim, tethered headset the company has not announced. XR teams now have a shape to plan against.
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The Information says Meta could unveil a camera-free model called Luna at Connect on September 23 and 24 and start shipping as soon as October, with six microphones where the camera used to sit.
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Verge reviewer Victoria Song gave Meta's Muse agent health details she had withheld after its mascot reshaped itself from her email, though its 5K plan was mid. For teams deploying agents, the extra data came from the design, with no sign yet that the advice improved.
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Oppenheimer found only 8% of US consumers would trust Meta with their passwords, the access its Muse Charm keychain needs to shop for them. Meta is shipping it by December anyway, so its retail deals depend on a permission most US buyers say they would withhold.
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Meta shares are up more than 25% since Muse launched, on an agent whose early users were more than 95% existing Facebook users. The pendant meant to carry that audience off the iPhone has no price yet and has had two trading sessions to show up in the stock.
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Meta will run live translation on its AI glasses through Private Processing, servers whose encryption keys it says no operator can reach. The same design stops Meta's engineers from inspecting any one failing session, and no launch date is set.
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Mark Zuckerberg met a year of harassment reports at Connect 2026 by restating the glasses' recording light, while Meta took 94% of first-half shipments. The resistance is coming from bystanders and the places they gather, in Australian council bans and London venues weighing their own.
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Meta priced its glasses-shaped VR headset at $1,299 and moved the processor into a puck you carry in your pocket. Shipping is promised for what the company calls Spring 2027. That means March 2027 at the earliest.
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Meta plans to ship the glasses in spring 2027 at $1,299, with 5K micro-OLED lenses on the face and a three-hour puck in the pocket. XR teams have about six months to make their apps work without a trigger.
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The Ray-Ban Meta Audio pair runs the same Muse assistant as the Gen 3 flagship and drops the image capture that Mark Zuckerberg named first when he explained why glasses beat every other AI wearable.
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Meta's spring launch price of $1,299 puts 100 grams on the face and a 300-gram compute puck on a cable, and the published evidence for wearing it through a working day is one 30-minute hands-on by PCMag.
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At Connect, Mark Zuckerberg and Alexandr Wang gave Meta's three-week-old agent its own email address, a face for video calls and control of desktop apps. The open question for anyone trying it is what it can reach.
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The Ray-Ban Meta Audio Glasses start at $349 with no camera, 43 grams and about 12 hours of battery, while the camera-equipped Gen 3 rises to $449. The Verge reports the launch included no new privacy controls.
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