It’s Mark Zuckerberg’s turn to get on stage and yap about how his company, Meta, is leading the way with the metaverse—oops, we meant artificial superintelligence (whatever that means)—at the annual Meta Connect 2025 developer conference.
Connect takes place from Sept. 17 through Sept. 18, but the first day is when Zuckerberg will be keynoting, likely talking up the combined effectiveness of all the handsomely paid AI researchers he’s hired in the past few months. We’re also expecting him to announce at least one pair of new smart glasses—maybe the rumored and leaked “Hypernova” faceputer with a built-in display and matching wristband controller that will reportedly retail for around $800. If we’re lucky, we may even see third-gen Ray-Ban Meta AI smart glasses.
Meta Connect 2025 is Meta’s big shot at taking the lead for a new computing form factor and platform. It can’t afford to blow it. Every tech company from Google to Amazon to Xiaomi is seemingly throwing resources at smart glasses, and by all predictions, 2026 is going to be an all-out war for our faces.
It all starts on Wednesday, Sept. 17, beginning at 8 p.m. ET / 5 p.m. PT. Yes, it’s gonna be a late event for us East Coasters.
It’s All About the Ray-Bans
With Meta Connect so soon on the horizon, the company that made the word “metaverse” a common (and oft-derided) word in modern parlance seems like it already leaked what will be its next pair of AR glasses. The company’s rumored “Hypernova” glasses with a small heads-up display, or HUD, will reportedly bear the same Ray-Ban branding as the Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses. The leaked video also suggests users will make use of a wristband that reads electrical signals in your body for controlling the screen. —Kyle Barr
