Meta Connect 2025 – The company’s biggest meeting to unveil smart glasses and VR headsets, kicking off Wednesday night. While we expect Star for Meta Connect 2025 to be the company’s new AI-powered smart glasses with Ray-Ban and Oakley, the company may have other surprises regarding Metaverse, Quest Headset, or its broad AI ambitions.
According to Meta, it sells millions of Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses, and earlier this year, Meta unveiled its latest AI-powered smart glasses at Oakley, designed for athletes. Silicon Valley has a big leaning towards AI wearables, and Meta appears to be one of the fee-driven companies.
In particular, this is the company’s first Connect Conference since launching Meta Superintelligence Labs (MSL). You may be able to get official updates on how that project is going, and you may hear from some MSL executives.
I feel that Connect this year is particularly consequential when Meta tries to regain its footing in AI races.
How to see
Meta Connect 2025 starts on Wednesdays at 5pm with a keynote address from CEO Mark Zuckerberg. The event will be held in person at Meta HQ in Menlo Park. You can subscribe for free to virtually watch live streams on Meta’s website. According to Meta’s agenda, the keynote speech will last about an hour.
If you want to get that Menlo Park feeling from the comfort of your living room, you can also access the keynote from the horizon via the Meta Quest headset. You can also access Meta Connect 2025 Keynote on Facebook and access it via the company’s official developer page, Meta for Developers.
On Thursday, Meta will hold a developer’s keynote speech staring at 10am Pt, discussing new experiences people can build on that device. Then, at 10:45am, Meta will hold a conversation between reality lab chief scientist Michael Abrash and Reality Labs Research Richard Newcombe. The two meta-executives said, “We will discuss the future of glasses in contextual AI.
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What to expect
There have already been some leaks regarding what will be announced at Meta Connect 2025. Perhaps the biggest is associated with a new type of smart glasses called HyperNova.
The current deleted video on Meta’s YouTube channel discovered on UploadVR showed a pair of Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses with a head-up display on the right lens, camera, microphone and onboard AI assistant.
The glasses in the video are controlled by wristbands, announced last year at Connect and controlled by subtle hand gestures.
The video suggests that Meta will unveil Hypernovagrass this week, and will likely release it. CNBC previously reported that Meta has announced HyperNova and plans to fire wristbands at Connect 2025.
It also appears that Meta will likely unveil a new smart glass that he developed with Oakley at Connect 2025. Companies are expected to launch a new pair of new smart glasses powered by AI in Oakley Sphera Style. This has a large unified lens on the front. This is the ideal shape for runners and bikers. Unlike previous Meta Smart Glasses, this model has one central camera above the nose bridge, rather than two cameras in the top corner of the frame.
On the VR side, it is unclear whether Meta will release a new quest headset as part of this year’s Connect. The meeting and company were named after Metaverse, but this year it seems to be less focused. Meta is reportedly developing an ultra-lightweight VR headset for launches by the end of 2026, but the company was able to wait to show off it at Connect next year.
That said, Meta promises that Zuckerberg will talk about Metaverse in some form or form. We don’t doubt it.
As for Meta’s AI ambitions, it’s not surprising that Zuckerberg uses Connect 2025 as an opportunity to highlight all the work MSL is doing. The company’s first ramacon, the AI developer conference, took place earlier this year before Meta invested billions of people in scale AI and hired researchers from around the industry.
Currently, Meta’s standalone AI app is in a confused place where you can control your smart glasses and use them as an AI chatbot. Your app may also get updates that make it easier to use.
