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After a few leaks, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg finally revealed the company’s next-generation Meta VR Glasses at its Connect event tonight. Arriving in Spring 2027, they look like oversized sunglasses (similar to display frames from Xreal and other), paired with an external power and computing pod, like the Apple Vision Pro. The Meta VR Glasses…

Today’s Meta Connect 2026 conference shared a lot of news about the company’s Ray-Ban Display smart glasses, which were introduced at the same event last year. 

Instead of a new Quest headset, the company showed off a more portable but less immersive device today.

Apple is in the process of developing a new screen-less fitness tracker that would put it into competition with Whoop — the fitness tech firm whose valuation recently crested $10 billion.

Sleep is no longer tracked only by noting bedtime and wake-up time. Smartphones, smartwatches, rings, mattress sensors, and connected health platforms can now capture movement, heart rate, heart rate variability, respiratory rate, blood oxygen trends, skin temperature, and nighttime sounds. Together, these signals help digital products estimate how long a person slept, when interruptions occurred,…

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This year has brought a well-timed pair of updates to some of the high-end smartwatch lines on the market. Both the Galaxy Watch Ultra 2 and the Apple Watch Ultra 4 debuted this summer, and the premium wearables have a fair bit in common. Beyond the obvious personal preference for one product ecosystem over the…

Buying a new smartwatch has become difficult. If the one on your wrist still tracks your workouts, shows your notifications, and gets you through the day, why spend another few hundred dollars on a new one? Plenty of people are asking themselves the same question.

The new wearable’s controversial audio features aren’t available yet, but there are plenty of upgrades here.

It works with the company’s new AR glasses and in its own mobile and desktop apps.