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New Delhi: Meta is getting ready to bring a new product to the stage, and this one looks like its boldest bet yet. The company will introduce its first smart glasses with a built-in display, codenamed Hypernova, at the Connect conference on September 17, 2025.
Industry leaks suggest Meta has decided to lower the price point, cutting it down from an earlier estimate of 1,000–1,400 US dollars (around ₹87,000 to ₹1.22 lakh) to about 800 dollars (₹69,600). That’s a big drop considering the firm’s Reality Labs division has already lost over 70 billion dollars since 2020 in its push into AR and VR.
Unlike earlier smart glasses that leaned mostly on audio feedback, Hypernova features a monocular display on the lower right lens. It can show notifications, navigation cues, live camera previews, translations, and text chats with Meta’s AI assistant. In a way, the idea is to let users check quick information without reaching for their phones.
The device itself weighs about 70 grams, slightly heavier than the Ray-Ban Meta glasses at 50 grams. Observers note the extra weight comes from the new display optics, sensors, and computing hardware inside the frame.
Hypernova will ship with a wristband codenamed Ceres, which uses surface electromyography (sEMG). This tech picks up electrical signals from tiny muscle movements in the wrist. The idea is to let users pinch or swipe with fingers to control the glasses without tapping or talking.
“The gesture recognition system appears to solve fundamental input challenges that have plagued wearable computing for years,” said a technology analyst quoted in reports. “If the latency and accuracy claims hold up in real-world conditions, this could represent a genuine breakthrough in human-computer interaction.”
sEMG has mostly been used in prosthetics and research labs. Now Meta wants to move it into a consumer gadget. The move could remove one of the biggest hurdles that made earlier smart glasses socially awkward to use in public.
Pricing at 800 dollars (₹69,600) puts Hypernova close to flagship smartphones like Apple’s iPhones, which seems intentional. Meta appears to be taking a console-like approach here, accepting lower profits in the hope of building a bigger market quickly.
If even a small slice of everyday smartphone use, like checking messages, directions, or notifications, shifts to the glasses, Meta may finally find its place in the computing market it has been chasing.
The timing of this launch is tricky. Reality Labs has reported year after year of steep losses. The division lost 16.1 billion dollars in 2023, 17.73 billion in 2024, and more than 8.7 billion just in the first half of 2025.
That makes Hypernova not just another gadget, but a product many inside and outside the company will watch closely. For Meta, it’s about proving that years of research in neural interfaces and displays can finally deliver something consumers will actually want to use.
