{"id":113819,"date":"2025-08-27T13:27:03","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T13:27:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/113819\/"},"modified":"2025-08-27T13:27:03","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T13:27:03","slug":"meta-doesnt-expect-to-sell-many-units-of-its-hud-glasses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/113819\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta Doesn&#8217;t Expect To Sell Many Units Of Its HUD Glasses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hypernova is the codename for Meta&#8217;s upcoming smart glasses with a small heads-up display (HUD) in one eye.<\/p>\n<p>While Meta hasn&#8217;t directly confirmed plans to soon launch HUD glasses, multiple executives have strongly hinted at it, and The Verge, The Information, The Financial Times, and Bloomberg&#8217;s Mark Gurman have all released reports claiming the launch is set for this year.<\/p>\n<p>To be clear, this is not AR. The reports suggest that the small HUD will be used to show the time, weather, and notifications, to frame and preview photos, for turn-by-turn navigation, to show captions and translations of real-world speech, and to optionally display Meta AI responses as text instead of audio.<\/p>\n<p>According to The Information, the addition of the HUD brings Hypernova to around 70 grams, compared to the 50 grams of Ray-Ban Meta glasses.<\/p>\n<p>According to Gurman, Hypernova will be controlled by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.uploadvr.com\/meta-semg-wristband-gestures-nature-paper\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">finger gestures<\/a>\u00a0from its long-in-development sEMG neural wristband, reportedly set to be included in the box.<\/p>\n<p>In July, renders of Hypernova and its wristband\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.uploadvr.com\/meta-celeste-hud-glasses-name-design-emg-wristband-gestures-leak\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">were discovered<\/a>\u00a0in early firmware\u00a0on a public Meta server, and an engraving visible in one of the renders seemingly revealed the product&#8217;s name: Meta Celeste.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hypernova is the codename for Meta&#8217;s upcoming smart glasses with a small heads-up display (HUD) in one eye.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":113820,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[74,179,509,180],"class_list":["post-113819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-virtual-reality","tag-technology","tag-virtual-reality","tag-virtualreality","tag-vr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113819\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}