The first generation of augmented reality glasses Meta is just around the corner

His short-term goals are clear: enter the metaverse. This is what the company itself has advised since the name change, and one would expect its plans to be ambitious and competitive.

Meta understands this clearly and expects to sell tens of millions of smart glasses internally by 2030. The first Meta augmented reality glasses are expected to arrive in 2024. According to a former Zuckerberg employee “wish it was an iPhone moment”.

The first generation Nazare glasses will work regardless of your smartphone, and Zuckerberg is said to be hoping they will help Meta “get out of control of Apple and Google”, namely, gain complete independence.

These glasses are Nazaré 1.0 They will have four-hour battery life, eye-tracking, a front-facing camera, microLED projectors, and stereo sound built into the mount.

We learned last month that Meta has abandoned plans to release its own VR/AR operating system, reassigning hundreds of employees. We now know from this report that Meta did this because the OS would not have been ready by 2024. Quest 2, Meta’s first augmented reality headset, will use a derivative of the Android operating system.

In the same year Meta plans to launch Hypernova, augmented reality glasses with a smaller screen than Nazaré’s that pair with a smartphone and display notifications in view. Also planned is the release of the new Ray-Ban Stories glasses, which we have already talked about.

When compared to the Oculus Rift, Quest and Go, you can clearly see how Meta wants to launch different augmented reality glasses.

However, in 2024 Meta plans to release a lighter and more advanced design in 2026, with a third in 2028. Since the first goggles are an expensive prototype, it will be interesting to see how many will be sold once people know a better version is on the way.

And that’s what we know from Meta’s latest earnings report that the company lost $10 billion on AR/VR. last year, despite Quest 2’s record sales.