5 days ago
'The Information' says Meta will merchandise up to 4 caller smart glasses earlier nan twelvemonth ends.
Meta
Meta is processing an AI pendant and will commencement testing it complete nan coming year, according to The Information. In addition, nan institution is reportedly gearing up to merchandise up to 4 much models of smart glasses earlier nan twelvemonth ends, arsenic portion of an fierce scheme to dress up for nan monolithic losses of its Reality Labs division, which houses its hardware business.
While Meta has yet to corroborate nan report, it was beautiful overmuch a fixed that nan institution would commencement moving connected an AI pendant aft it purchased Limitless successful 2025. Limitless was nan shaper of an AI instrumentality virtually called "Pendant," a clip-on Bluetooth microphone that listens and records everything you opportunity aliases perceive passim nan time truthful it tin supply summaries, transcripts and a searchable database of conversations and things you grounds for yourself. "Meta precocious announced a caller imagination to bring individual superintelligence to everyone and a cardinal portion of that imagination is building unthinkable AI-enabled wearables," Limitless CEO Dan Siroker said astatine nan time.
The Information besides reports that Meta is readying to grow its AI glasses action importantly and to motorboat a business-focused subscription work called "Wearables for Work." Meta's VP for wearables, Alex Himel, reportedly wrote successful an soul memo that nan extremity is to get much group to usage nan company's AI models and to compel them to salary for subscriptions. That includes subscriptions for Hatch, its unreleased consumer AI supplier that's presently nether development. (Meta precocious launched subscriptions tiers pinch exclusive features for Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp, which will trial retired its new monthly costs strategy called Meta One.)
The institution besides wants to grow its smart glasses offerings beyond its collaborations pinch Ray-Ban and Oakley, Himel wrote successful nan memo. According to nan publication, Meta is debuting a caller brace codenamed "Modelo" arsenic soon arsenic June. "Luna" and "RBM2 Refresh," which sounds for illustration different Ray-Ban model, will travel this fall. The past brace that Meta plans to merchandise this twelvemonth successful December is called "Mojito VIP." Meta is besides reportedly testing models named "Artemis" and "SSG" (or "supersensing" glasses) for early releases. The caller glasses will, of course, beryllium powered by Meta's AI models, on pinch nan unreleased AI supplier Hatch.
Hime told labor that Meta's extremity is to waste 10 cardinal wearables successful nan 2nd half of 2026, not conscionable by launching caller products, but besides by making them disposable successful much countries. The institution is aiming to get astatine slightest 10 companies to motion up for its Wearables for Work for commercialized customers, arsenic well, nan publication says. It's targeting deployments to astatine slightest 2 ample organizations that request 100 devices each.
Meta's Reality Labs section has been bleeding money for years and lost $19 cardinal successful 2025 alone. Mark Zuckerberg told investors during Meta's net telephone for nan 4th fourth of 2025 that nan section is going to focus connected glasses and wearables going forward, and that nan institution expects nan division's losses to gradually go smaller.
