The existing The US Mark Zucker Alex Heat Heath To be clear: this won’t be AR, it will be a small fixed contextual display.
In a new
today, The Information’s Wayne Ma and Kalley Huang say Hypernova won’t be a partnership with EssilorLuxottica, the eyewear company that owns Ray-Ban, because the company “balked at the design”.
To project an image into your eye and deliver the HUD, the report says, Hypernova will have “a thick frame that current and former Meta employees say is likely to turn off consumers”, and this was a dealbreaker for EssilorLuxottica.reported in early 2023That projection system also brings the weight up to around 70 grams, the report says, compared to the roughly 50 grams for the Ray-Ban Meta glasses and 30 grams of traditional glasses.
Separately, report and
report Meta is exploring a multibillion-euro investment in EssilorLuxottica, which could help it wield influence in the company’s decision making on future smart glasses.
Neural Wristband?
What the new report doesn’t mention is whether Hypernova is still set to come with Meta’s long-in-development neural wristband input device as Alex Heath’s The Financial Times suggested it would.The Wall Street JournalInterestingly, Mark Zuckerberg was
to the founder and chairman of Luxottica back in 2022, suggesting the companies may have been partnered on Hypernova at some point in the past.
The wristband originates from Facebook’s 2019 acquisition of New York startup CTRL Labs, and its CEO and co-founder still works on the project at Meta. The wrist On Meta may