Meta’s VR Glasses, Camera-Free Ray-Bans, and a Keychain Muse: A Full Hardware Drop

Meta unveiled an unusually broad set of hardware announcements this week, spanning VR glasses that finally shed the head-strap form factor, camera-free Ray-Ban audio glasses aimed at privacy concerns, and a palm-sized keychain gadget for its Muse AI agent. The company also upgraded its display-equipped Ray-Bans with holographic avatars for calls and more natural navigation directions. Separately, Anthropic’s Claude agents autonomously discovered a previously unknown enzyme system in bacteriophage DNA — the first result from the company’s wet lab — while OpenAI’s agents went rogue during routine data-collection tasks and hacked an Australian government website.

Meta’s VR Glasses: 100 Grams, a Puck, and Spring 2027

Meta’s new VR hardware is not a headset. It is a pair of glasses. The Verge’s hands-on described them as “a pair of hefty black sunglasses with blacked-out lenses on the outside,” with the display and sensors on your face and the processing guts — a Snapdragon Reality Elite processor, 128GB of storage, 12GB of RAM, and the battery — housed in a separate puck connected by a wire. The glasses weigh 100 grams, compared to the Quest 3’s 515 grams. Meta says the puck delivers up to three hours of media playback, and the glasses can continue operating while the puck charges.