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Certification programme that marks playback devices and content as meeting IMAX's specifications for image and sound quality.
The glasses Meta ships in Spring 2027 weigh about 100 grams because compute and battery moved to a tethered puck rated for up to three hours of high-resolution playback. Every launch partner Meta named sells video or live sport.
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Meta's new mixed reality device puts the computer in a pocket puck and the input in a pinch of thumb and forefinger. Everything in the Quest catalogue still runs, and the rest of the porting work falls to developers.
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Meta's $1,299.99 VR Glasses weigh about 100 grams with the computing in a tethered puck, and they do not ship until spring 2027. A $149.99 FDA-cleared hearing aid activation arrives this year.
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The Meta VR Glasses weigh 100g, run the existing Quest catalog and arrive in spring 2027 at $1,299. The Meta wearable that actually ships next month is a $349 pair of Ray-Bans with no cameras at all.
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Meta's new VR glasses weigh about 100 grams, cost $1,299.99 and depend on a pocket puck rated for up to three hours of video playback. Zuckerberg said Meta will build fewer VR devices and ship them only on a breakthrough.
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The $1,300 Meta VR Glasses run Quest 3's operating system on a tethered puck, so the existing library and the existing controllers carry over to a headset that shows roughly 44% of the Quest 3 viewing rectangle.
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