Meta is making ready to launch its first business augmented actuality (AR) glasses, codenamed “Hypernova,” anticipated to debut in September at a base worth of roughly $800. This worth displays a notable discount of about 20% from earlier estimates of $1,000, signaling Meta’s intention to simply accept decrease revenue margins with a view to increase client demand. Nevertheless, the worth could enhance with non-obligatory customizations comparable to prescription lenses or design adjustments.
Hypernova is designed as a minimalist good glasses mannequin and can function a precursor to Meta’s extra superior AR headset known as Phoenix, which is projected to launch in 2027. The glasses will characteristic a monocular show situated on a small space of the appropriate lens, offering key notifications and cues from Meta’s AI app with out obstructing the wearer’s major visual field. This show is seen solely when customers look downward, sustaining an unobtrusive expertise.
Meta’s AI glasses (mockup by Perplexity AI)
Working a specialised model of Android, Hypernova will include a handful of pre-installed apps, nevertheless it won’t help common Android apps or have entry to an app retailer. The machine goals to ship core good glasses performance with out the complexity or bulk of absolutely immersive AR methods.
A particular accent paired with Hypernova is a “neural” wristband that employs electromyography (EMG) to detect hand gestures and actions for management functions. This wristband, beforehand seen in prototypes for Meta’s forthcoming Orion AR headset, enhances interplay capabilities. Along with the wristband, the glasses will characteristic touch-sensitive areas on the temples that enable customers to manage sure features.
Meta is already creating a second-generation model of the Hypernova glasses that can embrace binocular imaginative and prescient for a wider and doubtlessly extra immersive show. This successor, anticipated round 2027, will preserve a easy person interface however is seen as a stepping stone in direction of a extra strong AR expertise. This evolution aligns with Meta’s gradual method to getting into the AR market, constructing from fundamental good glasses in direction of extra complete augmented actuality headsets.
