- Meta’s upcoming smart specs have been delayed
- The glasses will have improved mixed reality technology
- Meta needs “more breathing room” to get them done
It looks like we might have to wait a little longer for Meta’s rumored mixed reality (MR) smart glasses to appear: the latest leak surrounding the device suggests its launch has been pushed back from next year to 2027.
This comes from a pair of internal memos from Meta executives, apparently seen by Business Insider (via Engadget). It says the glasses, codenamed ‘Phoenix’, will be delayed to give the company “more breathing room to get the details right”.
Another part of the memo says the final product will benefit: “There’s a lot going on with tight build schedules and big changes to our core UX,” it reads, “and we won’t compromise on getting a completely polished and reliable experience.”
We don’t know too much about these MR glasses, but according to sources including The Information, they’ll be in the style of glasses and have a separate puck accessory to hold the battery (and maybe some of the computing power).
Much more hardware on the way
Meta is now a seasoned maker of augmented reality and virtual reality devices, of course, with Meta Quest 4 rumored to be on the way – although it’s rumored to be unlikely to see the light of day until 2026 at the earliest.
The company also has its own smart specs, most recently in the form of the Meta Ray-Ban Display Glasses (with a separate neural band controller for your wrist) and the Ray-Ban Meta Gen 2 (without a screen).
It looks like the ‘Phoenix’ upgrade in the pipeline could be somewhere between the smart glasses we’ve already seen and the larger Quest headsets – perhaps based on the Meta Orion glasses we’ve already seen in prototype form.
We know from previous leaks that plenty of AI wearables of various descriptions are on the way – including a wearable device codenamed ‘Malibu 2’ as per the Business Insider article – but we’ll have to wait a little longer for one of them, it seems.
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