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Meta He plans to use the Connect annual conference next month to report a deeper push in reasonable glasses, including launching the first glasses ready for consumers with a display, CNBC learned.
This is one of the two new devices that the meta plans to reveal at the event, according to people familiar with this issue. The company will also launch its first bracelet, which will allow users to control gestures with gestures, people said.
Connect-it’s a two-day conference for virtual reality developers, AR and Metarse. Initially he was named Oculus Connect and got his current nickname after Facebook changed his father Name of the company to meta in 2021.
In the glasses, the internal code name Hypernova will include a small digital display in the right lens of the device, said that people who asked not to call them because the details are confidential.
Expected the device will cost about $ 800 and will be sold in partnership with EssilorluxotticaPeople said. CNBC reports in October This meta worked with Luxottica on consumer glasses with a display.
Meta abandoned the comment. Luxottica, located in France and Italy, did not respond to a comment request.
Meta started selling smart glasses with Luxottica in 2021 when both companies released first -generation Ray-Ban of HistoryWhat allowed users to take photos or videos using simple voice commands. The partnership has since expanded, and last year included the addition of advanced AI functions that made the second generation of the product with an unexpected hit with early adopters.
Luxottica owns a number of glasses brands, including Ray-Ban, and licenses many others like Prada. It is unclear that the Luxottica brand will use for glasses with AR but meta -work list Published this week, the company says the company is looking for a technical program for its “Wear organization”, which “is responsible for the Ray-Ban AR glasses and other wearable equipment”.
In June CNBC report This is meta and Luxottica plan to release smart pans with Prada brands. Prada goggles are known for having thick frames and hands, which can make them a suitable option for the Hypernova device, one of the people said.
Last year Meta -General Director Mark Zuckerberg Used connection to demonstrate experimental ORION ARN ECOM.
Orion has AR capabilities on both lenses capable of combining 3D Visual videos into the physical world, but the device only served as a prototype to show the society that may be possible with AR glasses. However, Orion built some positive impetus for meta, which since the end of 2020 has survived almost 70 billion dollars From its Labs Reality unit, which is responsible for the construction of hardware devices.
With Hypernova Meta, it finally offers glasses with a consumer display, but the company sets low sales expectations, some sources said. All because the device requires more components than its predecessors only for voting, and will be a little harder and thicker, people said.
Meta and Ray-Ban have sold 2 million pairs of second-generation glasses since 2023, Luxottica Francesco Milleri said in February. In July, Lutice said the revenue from sales of smart glasses had more than three A year more than a year.
As part of the expansion agreement between Meta and Luxottica announced in September, Meta received about 3% in Gacs, reports Bloomberg. Meta also receives exclusive Luxottica brands on its Smart Glasses technology for several years, said a person familiar with this issue, CNBC said in June.
Although Hypernova will be presented, these visual functions are expected to be limited, people who are familiar with this issue said. They said that the color display offers about 20 -degree view – that is, it will appear in a small window in a fixed position – and will be used mainly for relaying simple bit of information, such as text messages.
Andrew Bosworth, Meta Technology Head, said there are only one display this month rather than two, including a lower price.
“Monacular displays on them,” – Boswort Said in the video on Instagram. “They are available, they are lighter, and you do not have a non -compliance, so they are structurally quite easier.”
“Interact with AI assistant”
Other details of Meta’s future glasses were disclosed in a customs and border patrol in a lawyer who represents meta. While the letter edited the name of the company and the product, the person who knew the case confirmed that he referred to Meta Hypernova’s glasses.
“This model will allow the user to make and share photos and videos, make phone calls and video calls, send and receive messages, listen to audio playback and interact with AI assistant in various forms and methods, including votes, display and manual interactions,” the letter dated July 23 said.
The CBP letter was part of the usual communication between companies and the US government in determining the country of origin for the consumer product. This refers to the product as “new smart glasses”, and says the device will feature a lens display feature that allows the user to interact with visual content that arises from reasonable features, and components that provide data search, processing and rendering capabilities. “
CBP did not comment on the story.
Hypernova glasses will also be paired with a bracelet that will use technology built in Ctrl Meta laboratories, people who are familiar with this issue said. Ctrl Labs, which Meta acquired in 2019, specializes in the creation of neurons that could allow users to control computing devices using gestures.
It is expected that the bracelet will become a key component for the future release of full glasses, so getting data from Hypernova can now improve future versions of the bracelet, people said. Instead of using camera sensors for tracking body movements as well Apple’s The Vision Pro headset, the Meta bracelet uses the so -called SEMG sensor Technology that reads and interprets electrical hand signals.
One of the problems with which the meta faced with the bracelet provides for how people decided to wear it, said a person familiar with the development of the product. If the device is too loose, it will not be able to read the user’s electrical signals as intended, which can affect its performance, the person said. In addition, the bracelets faced testing problems with which the hand she wore as she works on men, not women and how it functions on people who wear long sleeves.
The Ctrl Labs team published a document in Nature In July, his bracelet and Meta wrote about it in a blog message. In the Meta Command newspaper, he spoke in detail about the use of machine learning technology to force the bracelet to work with as many people as possible. The additional data collected by the upcoming device should improve these opportunities for future meta -acuers.
‘We have successfully prototype the Semg bracelet OrionOur first pair of true glasses of augmented reality, but it was just the beginning, “Meta wrote pillar. “Our teams have developed advanced machine learning models that are able to convert nerve signals that control muscles into the wrist, in teams that move people with glasses, eliminating the need for traditional and more cumbersome.”
Bloomberg report The component of the bracelet in January.
Recently, Meta began to contact the developers to start testing both Hypernova and the accompanying bracelets, said people familiar with this issue. The company wants to judge third developers, especially those who specialize in the generative AI, to create experimental applications that meta can be demonstrated to get sick with reasonable glasses, people said.
In addition to Hypernova and BrawBand, Meta also announces the reasonable glasses of the third voice with Luxottica in Connect, one person said.
This device also referred to the CBP in the July letter, citing it as “the next -generation smart goggles”. Glasses will include “components that provide the capacity functionality of the sensory, allowing users to interact with smart -acuers through touch gestures,” the letter reads.
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