- Meta’s next smart specs have been delayed
- The glasses will feature improved mixed reality technology
- Meta needs “more room to maneuver” to achieve them
It looks like we may have to wait a little longer for Meta’s mixed reality (MR) smart glasses to make an appearance: the latest leak around the device suggests its launch has been pushed back from next year to 2027.
This comes from some internal memos from Meta executives, apparently seen by Business Insider (via Engadget). It says the glasses, called “Phoenix,” will be delayed so the company can have “more wiggle room to get the details right.”
Another section of the memo says the final product will benefit: “There’s a lot coming with tight release schedules and big changes to our core UX,” it reads, “and we won’t compromise on delivering a fully polished and reliable experience.”
We don’t know much about these MR glasses, but according to sources like The Information, they will look like glasses and have a separate puck accessory to hold the battery (and perhaps some of the computing power).
Lots more material on the way
Meta is now an experienced maker of augmented reality and virtual reality devices, with the Meta Quest 4 reportedly on the way – although it’s unlikely to see the light of day until 2026 at the earliest, according to rumors.
The company also has its own smart specs, most recently in the form of the Ray-Ban Meta Display Glasses (with a separate neural band controller for your wrist) and the Ray-Ban Meta Gen 2 (without a display).
It looks like the ongoing “Phoenix” upgrade could fall 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 numerous AI wearable devices of various descriptions are on the way – including a wearable device named “Malibu 2” according to the Business Insider article – but we’ll have to wait a little longer for one of them, it seems.
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