Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth teased what to expect at Meta Connect 2025, which will be held from September 17-18.
In an Ask-Me-Any-anything (AMA) session on Instagram, Bosworth suggested that Connect 2025 will see “Big Wearable Announcement”, AI and “Metaverse Software.”
“There’s a lot I’m looking forward to,” Bosworth said.
“Big Wearable Announcement”
It seems very clear that “big wearable announcement” means Bosworth.
Leaks and reliable reports from The Verge, The Information, The Financial Times and Bloomberg’s Markgerman suggest that Connect 2025’s hardware focus is the launch of Meta’s first smart glasses with display called Meta Celeste.
Metaceleste has a small head-up display (HUD) in your right eye. The leak suggests that this HUD shows time, weather, notifications, previews, navigation direction per turn, captions and translations of real-world speeches, and meta-AI responses as text instead of audio.
It reportedly has a price north of $1,000, and Celeste has a box of Meta’s developing sem wristbands for finger gesture control.
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Celeste has a display, but it only has one eye, has no particularly wide field of view and no location tracking. Therefore, virtual objects and interfaces cannot be fixed to the real world.
Meta has been working on true AR glasses for almost 10 years, showing off the Orion, a fully integrated AR glasses prototype at Connect 2024 last year. However, the company has admitted that Orion itself will not become a product. This is because it doesn’t take time immediately, as each unit needs to cost over $10,000 to sell, as it still can’t be manufactured at an affordable price and doesn’t take much time right away.
It’s possible that Meta will share updates on his progress on true AR glasses in Connect 2025, but it doesn’t seem like that as there’s a risk of covering up Celeste. So the company expects to give only vague hints about the current timeline of true AR.
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That’s not to say that Metaceleste and its included wristbands will be the only hardware launch for Connect 2025.
Mark Garman reports that French-Italian eyewear giant Meta and its partner Esiloluxottica, which owns the Ray Van and Oakley brands, are planning to launch Oakley Meta Spaela Glasses later this year, with a core camera suitable for first-person video capture. Both companies have launched Oakley Meta HSTN glasses.
What’s less clear is that “metaverse software” means Bosworth.
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Meta repeatedly teased her ability to generate an entire environment into AI in Horizon Worlds Desktop Editor. This may be what Bosworth is referring to.
He can also mention Quest’s Horizon OS. Data mining and findings in the V78 and V79 PTC (Public Test Channel) suggest that Meta has begun the process of revamping the home system on the Horizon platform, and you can read about it here.
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Also, after more than a decade of research, Meta may be preparing to finally launch the codec avatar technology that is under development. The purpose is to deliver your subconscious, or subconscious, that you are truly with others, even though you are not physically there. You cannot do this. Video calls are not approaching.
Over the past year, Meta has moved to the Gauss Splatz approach of codec avatars, allowing smartphone scans to produce the highest quality version. These new Gaussian codec avatars are also very reliable in nature, making them very suitable for practical use in VR and mixed reality.
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More recently, Meta has shown off a version of research that adds compositional splits between the head and hair, allowing you to change hairstyles to improve realism, which can’t be generated from smartphone scans, but can be run in real time in Quest 3.
However, neither Quest 3 nor Quest 3 has eye tracking or face tracking, indicating that Meta is planning to push out another headset with these features and launch it. The Quest Pro had both but was cancelled earlier this year.
One possibility is that Meta will first launch a rudimentary flat screen version of a corducode avatar with AI-simulated face tracking, allowing him to participate in WhatsApp and Messenger video calls in a more realistic form than a meta avatar.
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