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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Reality
- Evidence35
- Adoption8
- Hype gap+45
- Incentives92
- Confidence52
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.
Reality
- Evidence55
- Adoption14
- Hype gap+32
- Incentives68
- Confidence58
Gizmodo wore Snap's Specs at the launch event and looked at dozens of other wearers, finding chunky glasses that were noticeably heavy in a short session and mostly left ears alone.
Reality
- Evidence58
- Adoption12
- Hype gap+10
- Incentives62
- Confidence42
Polyarc has wound down after nearly 12 years, having put the Moss games on five headset platforms and one flat-screen version. Engadget points to Meta's retreat from VR as the bigger problem behind it.
Reality
- Evidence66
- Adoption48
- Hype gap+10
- Incentives45
- Confidence62
The default entry point, the input model and the discovery path all changed at once. The developer-facing question is what now has to be re-tested.
Reality
- Evidence52
- Adoption38
- Hype gap+24
- Incentives71
- Confidence46
A continuation filing describes cameras that name people and index what they did. It is unexamined and unshipped, which is precisely when the regulatory cost is cheapest to estimate.
Reality
- Evidence42
- Adoption14
- Hype gap+12
- Incentives55
- Confidence52