Oakley Meta glasses are coming later this year, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman reports.
Gurman has a fairly strong track record of reporting Meta’s moves in advance.
The device, reportedly codenamed Supernova 2, would be the first expansion of Meta and EssilorLuxottica’s smart glasses product lineup, in addition to the existing Ray-Ban Meta glasses, which were codenamed Supernova.
While the Ray-Ban glasses have a camera on one side and are aimed towards all consumers, the Oakley glasses would have the camera in the center and be intended for “cyclists and other athletes”.
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The Oakley Meta glasses still wouldn’t have a screen, though. The third Meta smart glass product will reportedly have a screen. Further, he says Meta “has discussed” including the EMG wristband (demoed with
) in the box of Hypernova, with a backup plan of using touch controls on the temple like its other smart glasses.
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Hypernova’s display would only be in one eye, and would have a very small field of view. Gurman said that Meta plans to launch the first AR (augmented reality) product, capable of anchoring objects and virtual interfaces in real space in 2027. This is in line with previous reports from The Verge, The Information and other publications. Orion’s field of vision, which is impressive for transparent opticals, relies on materials and components that can’t currently be produced at scale and will not anytime soon. The consumer product is code-named Artemis. Gurman claims that Artemis is sleeker, lighter and more powerful than Orion. However, earlier reports indicated it would also be the Orion prototype. So while Meta AR glasses are coming in 2027, they won’t have the defining breakthrough of Orion.
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