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Consumer virtual-reality head-mounted displays, their optics, ergonomics and content ecosystems.
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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Meta's new VR Glasses leave the display and sensors on the face and move the processor, the memory and the battery onto a wired puck in the pocket. The Verge tried them at Meta's campus this week.
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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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Workplace glasses policies were written to spot a camera lens. Meta's cheapest new pair does not have one, and the company is adding its Muse agent to the smart glasses at the same time.
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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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The headset ships with monochrome infrared cameras and a PCI-E slot on the front, and the Arcturus module that adds color costs $150 on top. Anyone building mixed reality has to guess how many owners bought it.
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Eight videos briefly posted to the ARM Steam client confirm a battery in the headstrap, a manual IPD wheel and a swappable light blocker. Valve still has not said what any of it costs.
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