Meta Targeting 2025 For Glasses With ‘viewfinder Display And Neural Interface Smartwatch

With 2025 shaping up to be a big year, a new leak tonight has revealed the upcoming Meta roadmap for VR/MR headsets and AR glasses.

According to The Verge , Labs' MetaReality division held an internal presentation on Tuesday detailing upcoming hardware. On the smart glasses front, this fall we'll see Ray-Ban's second flagship, which is a pair of sunglasses with a camera and microphone.

In the year 2025 (one year ahead), the third generation smart glasses will have a "vision finder" screen to display incoming messages, translate text in real time and scan QR codes. Control will be via a "neural interface" bar, which, according to The Verge , "allows the wearer to control hand gestures, such as sliding a finger across a dummy D-pad."

Finally, the group claims that it will allow users to use a virtual keyboard and type the same words in a minute as mobile allows.

This neural interface technology from CTRL-Labs (Brain-Computer Interface Technology) is also available in smartwatches that can be integrated into glasses. Last year, Meta filmed the watch with a portable bottle and a naturally GoPro-like camera.

Glasses with augmented reality capabilities that can "display high-resolution holograms in the real world" will come with the second set of smartwatches in 2027 .

In the near future, this year's Quest 3 will cost $399 more than the current model, be twice as thin, be "at least twice as powerful" and have a front-facing camera. It offers a mixed reality experience thanks to its portability and 41 new apps/games.

Next year, there may be cheaper headphones called Ventura, followed by high-end "La Jolla" headphones.

Looking at the big picture, Google is rumored to be working on a mixed reality headset in 2024 dubbed "Project Iris." The latter will provide the chip for the Samsung XR (currently unknown) which will run an improved version of Android.

Meanwhile, Google's AR business is split between its hardware and Android divisions, in a deal that resembles development of the Pixel and Watch phones.

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