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Meta Connect 2025, Meta’s annual big two-day event to reveal new technology, will begin with a keynote from CEO Mark Zuckerberg on September 17 at 8 p.m. ET and continue through the 18th. You can stream the keynote and developers conferences on Facebook or the official Meta Connect site.
Predicting event announcements is naturally full of speculation, but it’s informed speculation based on online rumors and sources that have been accurate with past leaks and rumors. If you plan to watch the event—or just want an idea of what might be coming—here’s what I expect to see at Meta Connect 2025.
Hypernova smart glasses
The biggest hype at Meta Connect 2025 is likely to be about Meta’s next generation of smart glasses, code-named “Hypernova,” or maybe “Meta Celeste.” According to online rumors, the next Meta glasses will feature a dedicated display on one lens for alerts and mini-apps, as well as all the AI, audio, and camera/video features of the current generation of Meta Ray-Bans and Meta Oakley smart glasses. All of this will be facilitated via a wireless wristband that will let you control various aspects of the glasses with small wrist movements.
The display glasses will supposedly retail for $799, but when they’ll hit the market remains to be seen. Sources report they’ll be on sale this month (Zuckerberg adding, “…and they’ll be available tonight” at the end of his keynote would be cool), but it could be anytime later this fall. These glasses would mark a definite step forward in smart glasses, but they won’t be the full augmented reality that Meta has shown off in its “Orion” smart glasses.
New details on the third-generation Ray-Ban Meta and Oakley Meta smart glasses
If you’re more interested in a better version of the Meta Ray-Bans and Meta Oakleys, Meta Connect could feature details on third-gen Meta smart glasses. Along with expected improvements like longer battery life and maybe a better camera, the biggest innovation to Meta glasses may be improvements to the glasses’ AI.
Internally called “super sensing,” Meta’s improved AI will stay on for longer periods, seeing what you see and interpreting it. Your glasses might tell you left the oven on, or tell you where you left your car keys (the single feature I most want from smart glasses). Another rumored addition to Meta’s AI could be facial recognition (another thing I’d use all the time).
The technology already exists for smart glasses to tell you who you’re looking at, but Meta has supposedly been leery of pulling the trigger due to privacy concerns. Generation 3 Meta smart glasses are expected to hit stores this fall.
Third-party apps for Ray-Ban Meta and Oakley Meta glasses
If third-party app support for Meta smart glasses is revealed at Connect 2025, it might be through “the future of computing” developer keynote to be held on September 18 at 1 p.m. ET. Meta opening its smart glasses to other developers’ apps could low-key be the biggest announcement at the show, as it would expand what you could do with your glasses in ways that can be hard to even imagine.
New improvements to Meta Horizon OS
There doesn’t seem to be much evidence that Meta will announce a Quest 4 VR headset at Connect 2025, but that doesn’t mean Virtual Reality Gang will be totally ignored. Tech site VRUpload recently did some data mining and dug up evidence that Meta is planning to revamp both the Home and Worlds components of the Meta Horizon.
Meta is supposedly re-vamping the “starting space” for Quest users, taking it from its current static state to something that makes it “easier to connect with others and transition smoothly into Horizon Worlds and immersive apps.” Other potential Horizon announcements may include a more responsive and better-looking Horizon Worlds social hub, and a new theater space within Horizon Worlds called Events Arena. If you want to tune in live, you can stream Connect 2025 on Facebook or the official Meta Connect site.