Like last year's event, Meta has again opted for an evening keynote, with Zuckerberg taking the stage at 4PM PT/7PM ET on September 23.
The lack of cameras could offer Meta a couple of advantages.
In a recent AMA on Instagram, Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth said the company would have "more to say" about the issue during Connect.
Deadline reported last year that Meta was backing a new "3D horror series" based on A24's Talk to Me that's meant for viewing in the company's headsets.
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These glasses will instead come with extra microphones for chatting with Meta's AI assistant. That could be a reference to these camera-free frames or, perhaps, a new Gen 3 lineup.
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There's a lot for Mark Zuckerberg to cover at this year's keynote.
Meta is about to hold its biggest event of the year. While Connect was once solely dedicated to virtual reality, the event now covers all the company's hardware projects, as well as AI and the metaverse.
Like last year's event, Meta has again opted for an evening keynote, with Zuckerberg taking the stage at 4PM PT/7PM ET on September 23.
As with the last few years, there's likely to be a lot of glasses-related news. The lack of cameras could offer Meta a couple of advantages.
More significantly, they could also help Meta address ongoing privacy concerns and opposition against its current lineup of glasses. Meta has been trying to get ahead of the "creep glasses" narrative in recent weeks by cracking down on people who tamper with the LED lights and post videos of themselves harassing others. In a recent AMA on Instagram, Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth said the company would have "more to say" about the issue during Connect.
Ray-Ban has recently said that it has new Meta-branded glasses coming soon.
A new kind of headset will probably also mean some updates to HorizonOS, and it will be interesting to see what kinds of experiences Meta will promote alongside the new hardware. Deadline reported last year that Meta was backing a new "3D horror series" based on A24's Talk to Me that's meant for viewing in the company's headsets.
When the company almost shut down Horizon Worlds in VR earlier this year, Bosworth said that augmented reality was much part of the company's "expansive construct of the metaverse."
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