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Meta is renewing its quest to make virtual reality a thing. At Connect on Wednesday, the company announced Meta VR Glasses, its newest entry into the VR market. These glasses actually seem quite promising given their substantially lighter form factor and a host of new entertainment integrations — including (allegedly) IMAX compatibility.

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Meta Connect kicks off later this week as the tech giant’s annual event starts on September 23. We’re expecting to see CEO Mark Zuckerberg on stage announcing several new devices including different smart glasses, a VR headset, and potential Metaverse features.

Later this week, Mark Zuckerberg is expected to announce its newest generation of smart glasses at Meta Connect in California. However, in the year since the Meta Ray-Ban Displays and Ray-Ban Meta Gen 2 smart glasses debuted, the company’s reputation has been tarnished by numerous reports of individuals using Meta’s specs for creepy purposes.

When Snap debuted its long-awaited smart glasses, Specs, earlier this year, the reveal was not only underwhelming but a genuine disaster. The glasses — which cost a whopping $2200 and are vaguely reminiscent of scuba gear — inspired jeers online and calls for the company’s CEO, Evan Spiegel, to resign. The company’s stock subsequently nosedived.

Way back in June of this year, Snap CEO Evan Spiegel revealed the company’s Specs — a pair of AR glasses that he described as the beginning of a “new era of computing.”

Considering we didn’t have smartphones at all twenty years ago, it’s a little crazy to think about just how quickly the market established itself, zeroing in on the designs and features that shoppers most responded to. Even smartwatches have found their groove, but the same can’t quite be said yet about the latest big trend…

Snap officially unveiled its Specs AR glasses at AWE 2026 in June, but the official launch was delayed until now. “It’s going to be that shift from phones to glasses,” Snap said at the time.

Meta’s camera-equipped smart glasses have proven more successful than other entrants into the market, but they have also deeply disturbed certain consumers who see them as invasive emblems of a dystopian surveillance society run amok. Now, as the company weathers complaints that it’s selling “pervert glasses,” it has reportedly decided to sell a pair that…

John Ternus has finally taken over as CEO of Apple, and his term could kickstart a wave of new and redefined Apple devices. It all starts next week with the “Surprise and Shine” iPhone event.