Everything Announced At Meta Connect 2026

It is Meta’s flip to disclose new {hardware} in the course of the always-busy fall season. The corporate confirmed off two new sorts of wearables at Meta Join, digital actuality glasses and an audio-only set, in addition to the third-gen Ray-Ban Meta AI specs.

It introduced some updates for Meta Ray-Ban Show whereas making these sensible glasses extra broadly obtainable. As well as, Meta revealed a listening to help characteristic for its glasses together with the most important modifications but for Beat Saber and a raft of leisure content material that is coming to the VR ecosystem. As well as, Meta is engaged on bringing the Muse AI agent to its glasses.

Let’s dive into the whole lot the corporate introduced at Meta Join 2026. You may also check out our liveblog for a real-time breakdown of all of the bulletins.

The most important announcement at Meta Join was the corporate’s digital actuality glasses. Rumors back in 2023 recommended that Meta would deploy its first such product in 2027 and it is sticking to that timeframe — Meta VR Glasses will arrive next spring. You may wish to begin placing some money apart for them for those who’re , although, as they’re going to price $1,300.

The corporate says, at round 100 grams, Meta VR Glasses are 5 instances lighter than the Meta Quest 3 headset. The frames are constructed with magnesium alloy and have pancake lenses. They embody full-color passthrough video help and a 5K show. Meta claims they’re going to provide “cinema-grade readability” with help for Dolby Imaginative and prescient and Dolby Atmos spatial audio. The corporate says it is the primary IMAX Enhanced licensed VR machine too.

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The entire computing is dealt with by a tethered puck and the whole lot runs on Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Reality Elite chipset. The puck additionally comprises the storage and battery. Meta says the glasses will have the ability to ship “as much as three hours of steady high-resolution media playback” on a cost. The puck has help for 45W quick charging too.

On the outset, there will be 75 video games you may play utilizing hand gestures. The glasses will run each recreation that is obtainable for Quest headsets with the assistance of help for Contact Plus controllers. You’ll stream titles via Xbox Cloud Gaming, although Microsoft is imposing new time limits on that service. There’s the choice to connect with different gaming units wirelessly or by way of USB-C as nicely.

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True to its metaverse-derived identify, Meta sees the glasses as a vector for productiveness. You’ll be able to hook the machine as much as a Home windows PC or Mac and management them with a digital keyboard and touchpad on a desk or desk. You’ll be able to simply use a bodily mouse and keyboard too.

Not not like Apple Vision Pro, Meta VR Glasses will help holographic avatars that you need to use in video calls on apps corresponding to WhatsApp and Zoom. Of us who’re becoming a member of a name on a flatscreen machine can see your hologram. Whenever you see one other particular person’s hologram when you’re utilizing the VR Glasses, spatial audio will place their voice of their digital location.

In fact, the corporate is integrating Meta AI into the glasses. You’ll be able to inform Meta VR Glasses what you wish to do utilizing your voice. Alternatively, you may management the machine along with your eyes or hand gestures.

Maybe in an effort to sidestep the not-unwarranted “pervert glasses” label that many have given to wearables which have a digicam, Meta is releasing an audio-only mannequin. The Ray-Ban Meta Audio glasses are, after all, outfitted with an AI voice assistant. They help music and podcast playback in addition to voice calls. The corporate says the machine will run for as much as 12 hours on a cost. The charging case is claimed so as to add as much as 48 hours of use.

Ray-Ban Meta Audio is designed for all-day put on, the corporate notes. The glasses weigh 43 grams and have “professionally adjustable temple suggestions, adjustable or swappable nostril pads and overextension hinges.” They will be obtainable in a basic Ray-Ban type known as Clubmaster and a extra rectangular Burbank form in 23 shade and lens combos. The glasses help prescription lenses too.

Pre-orders for the Ray-Ban Meta Audio open at this time and the glasses ship on October 13. They begin at $349.

Meta nonetheless does have camera-equipped sensible glasses, nevertheless. It has refreshed the Ray-Ban Meta with a slimmer design and a button that triggers Meta AI. The third-gen model is claimed to have an extended battery life than the earlier one, with 9 hours of utilization versus eight. There is a six-mic array that Meta claims can lower out over 90 % of background noise for clearer audio.

The 12MP digicam helps 3K video seize. The corporate provides that the cameras on its AI glasses will quickly have the ability to file movies with Dolby Atmos spatial audio. A dynamic photograph characteristic can snap a number of photographs and you may choose the perfect one (or let Meta AI counsel choices).

Now you can get the glasses within the type of Ray-Ban’s basic Aviator, in addition to Zena, a cat-eye body. The Wayfarer look is sticking round too. Ray-Ban Meta Gen 3 can be found beginning at this time in 27 combos of lenses and colours. They begin at $449.

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There are a bunch of particular editions as nicely. An Aviator model in milky beige with brown Transitions lenses begin at $579 and might be obtainable for a restricted time. There are new collabs with Kylie Jenner and Blackpink’s Lisa, and people fashions begin at $399. Meta can also be releasing new types for its Essilor Luxottica glasses and bringing them (and different fashions) to extra markets.

On prime of all of that, Meta is introducing extra fashions in its own-brand Meta Glasses vary. The Meta Adventurer frames now begin at $249 with a black body and grey lenses together with a plug-in case, and there is additionally a limited-edition model of the Meta Fury with a transparent body and mirrored lenses. Pre-orders for the previous open at this time and so they’ll hit cabinets on October 23.

There have been updates on the Meta Ray-Ban Display entrance as nicely. Meta is bringing this model to more markets and making them extra broadly obtainable within the US, the place now you can get them organized on-line for $799. Of us within the UK and Canada should purchase these glasses at this time for £749 and $1,149 CAD, respectively. Pre-orders are opening at this time in Germany, France and Italy, the place Meta Ray-Ban Show begins at €899. The glasses might be obtainable in these three nations on October 13.

When it comes to characteristic updates, people within the US and Canada will have the ability to entry biking and public transit instructions within the heads-up navigation device later this month. Additionally, as a substitute of turn-by-turn strolling instructions, the glasses can inform you to show at a sure landmark that is in entrance of you.

Meta Ray-Ban Show will help holograms in video calls too, however you will must seize your self utilizing the Meta AI app if you wish to create your personal avatar. It will first be supported for WhatsApp calls within the US this fall.

By way of the Meta AI app and Discover (an app you may entry on the glasses), you can try an array of net apps. Furthermore, Meta Ray-Ban Show will help photograph modifying on the show, Dolby Atmos video seize, notifications mirrored out of your telephone and extra.

Meta is bringing a hearing enhancement feature to its sensible glasses. It is designed extra for individuals who can often hear positive however may wrestle in a loud atmosphere than hard-of-hearing people who would profit extra from an precise listening to support.

The setup circulation is much like the hearing aid feature on Apple’s AirPods — you will must hearken to tones in a quiet room so the glasses can tune the settings for you. You’ll be able to change this mode on or off by saying “Hey Meta, begin listening to enhancement.”

This characteristic might be obtainable within the US later this 12 months on Meta Glasses, and in a while the third-gen Ray-Ban Meta and Ray-Ban Meta Audio. There is a 30-day trial however the firm says it’s going to price a one-off $149 price after that. Alternatively, it is included with a Meta One subscription. Meta says the listening to enhancement device is eligible for FSA and HSA reimbursement.

Let’s get into the leisure facet of VR, beginning with Beat Saber. Meta-owned developer Beat Games is claimed to be giving the title its greatest replace ever this spring. It consists of help for hand monitoring, so you will now not want to make use of Contact Plus controllers to play, although you may nonetheless do this for those who desire.

Flux is a brand new single-player mode by which you need to use powers just like the Flux Tether. Meta says this “channels energy between your palms to slice via notes in time with the beat of pulse-pounding tracks.” Flux, which might be obtainable on Meta VR Glasses and Meta Quest, consists of 35 songs from throughout the Beat Saber panorama on the outset, with extra to comply with.

Beat Video games can also be revamping the single-player marketing campaign to incorporate a story facet, recent missions and a brand new menu system. The studio is including a brand new development and rewards system as nicely. It will allow you to customise the look and sound of the sport.

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Supernatural might be again on the Meta Horizon Retailer this fall. A newly independent development team took the reins of the VR train platform after Meta made widescale cuts throughout its VR and metaverse division firstly of the 12 months. Customers’ factors, streaks and badges will stay intact within the new app. The builders are including extra HD environments, exercises and music together with different upgrades, Meta says.

Elsewhere on the gaming entrance, heist title Payday: Aces Excessive is coming to Meta Quest 3 and 3S later this 12 months with help for co-op crossplay with the PC VR model. An open playtest begins October 19. A combined actuality model of Tetris Impact is coming to Meta VR Glasses subsequent 12 months with hand-tracking help. Two Level Hospital is on the way in which to Meta Quest 3 and 3S with hand-tracking help as nicely.

Whereas followers await the primary fully new Ace Legal professional recreation in over a decade, the sequence is about to make its VR debut. Phoenix Wright Ace Legal professional: Twin Destinies (which was first launched on the Nintendo DS in 2013) is coming to Meta VR Glasses and Meta Quest subsequent 12 months with help for hand monitoring and voice activation, so you may bodily level at witnesses and yell “objection!” I’ve gotta say, that seems like a enjoyable approach to confuse individuals you reside with. You’ll be able to try Phoenix Wright Ace Legal professional: Twin Destinies VR on Meta VR Glasses and Meta Quest subsequent 12 months.

Meta is making a much bigger push into 3D and VR experiences on its headsets and Meta VR Glasses. Disney+ subscribers (that service just got more expensive in the US, FYI) in sure nations will have the ability to stream the likes of The Avengers and Black Panther in 3D beginning in November. 

Meta VR Glasses house owners will have the ability to try VR Enhanced variations of iconic movies like Avengers: Infinity Battle and Star Wars: A New Hope subsequent spring. Meta says, within the variations of those motion pictures that might be obtainable via a brand new Disney Immersive Cinema by ILM app, “your environment might be remodeled with immersive environments, dynamic results, beautiful 3D visuals and spatial audio to really feel such as you’re not simply watching a scene, however dwelling inside it.”

A docuseries known as Open Season will debut within the Meta Quest TV app on September 29. It will take you contained in the remedy periods of Golden State Warriors participant and four-time NBA champion Draymond Inexperienced in the course of the 2025-26 season. That is the primary entry in an unique sequence known as Meta Presents.

The corporate says it’ll provide a whole lot of 2D and 3D motion pictures for people to purchase and lease within the US later this 12 months. It is going to broaden the library to extra nations by the point Meta VR Glasses can be found.

A brand new Nationwide Geographic: Past app will characteristic 180-degree 3D experiences of the pure world. An entire bunch of different streaming apps can be found too, together with Amazon Prime Video, YouTube, DirecTV, AMC+, Crunchyroll, Plex and Tubi, whereas Peacock, HBO Max and Paramount+ will provide up 3D titles.

Meta says that, together with with the ability to dive into sports activities apps like these from the NBA and MLB, you may try immersive sports activities from ESPN. It will embody 8K streaming with 180-degree views. Immersive Sports activities begins with school soccer this 12 months, and it will broaden to different sports activities in 2027. On Meta VR Glasses, you can watch greater than 100 reside sports activities occasions every year by way of Meta’s partnerships with MLB, NBC Sports activities, TNT Sports activities and UFC.

We all know barely something about it, however on the finish of at this time’s keynote, Zuckerberg briefly confirmed off a new device called Muse Charm. It is a devoted piece of {hardware} that homes your private Muse Agent with a small show, audio system, mics and a fingerprint sensor. It seems slightly like a Tamagotchi, into which, Zuckerberg says, Meta has “packed the entire Muse expertise, together with the real-time voice and avatar stack into one thing that matches on a keychain and is all the time obtainable to speak to.” The corporate says it’s going to have extra to share on the machine later this 12 months.