Meta unveils Muse Charm and 100-gram VR Glasses at Connect

Meta showed a pocket device for its AI agent and a pair of VR glasses at Connect on September 23, 2026. Muse Charm exists only to talk to Muse, the agent Meta launched earlier that month. Meta VR Glasses weigh about 100 grams and cost $1,299.99, according to Meta's Connect recap.

Mark Zuckerberg said on stage that Meta has “shifted our focus to building the best devices for personal superintelligence,” Reuters reported. Muse has attracted millions of downloads since its September 8 launch, and Meta's shares climbed nearly 24% over that period, Reuters said.

Muse Charm has no price, and Meta has shared few specs

Meta calls Muse Charm “a delightful and fun device built for you to talk and interact with your Muse,” with a real-time voice model inside. Its product page says you reach the agent by voice, touch and camera. When we checked on October 11, the page still offered only a sign-up for updates.

Reuters reported that Charm has a thumb-operated screen of about 2 inches and a built-in 5G modem, though it can't make calls. Zuckerberg said it will also carry a fingerprint sensor that, when activated, lets you talk to the agent, CNBC reported.

He also said Meta still needs to finalize the “finishing material” and the component layout to have Charm ready to ship for the holidays. Meta's official recap says only that the company will have more to share later this year.

Analysts quoted by Reuters were divided. IDC's Jitesh Ubrani said Charm could appeal to people who don't want to wear glasses. Linda Sui of Smart Analytics Global offered a warning: “I would be cautious about its mass-market potential.”

Reuters also recalled the Rabbit R1, an AI handheld that flopped after a heavily publicized 2024 launch. Meta has since released Muse Gadgets, an open-source developer kit for building other devices that talk to Muse on ESP32 boards or Linux computers.

Meta VR Glasses weigh about 100 grams and cost $1,299.99

Meta VR Glasses divide the hardware into two separate parts. The glasses hold the display and sensors, and a puck on an optical tether carries the processor, battery and storage. Meta says that design makes them five times lighter than its Meta Quest 3 headset.

• Price and date: $1,299.99, on sale in spring 2027
• Weight: about 100 grams for the glasses, plus a separate compute puck
• Display: 5K micro-OLED panels, 2412 x 2288 pixels per eye, 37 pixels per degree
• Field of view: 70 by 66 degrees
• Chip: Qualcomm Snapdragon Reality Elite, in the puck
• Battery: up to 3 hours of video playback, 45W fast charging
• Controls: eye tracking, hand gestures and voice, with no controllers required
• Games: more than 75 hand-tracked games at launch, plus the Quest catalog with Touch Plus controllers

Source: Meta's VR Glasses announcement and developer documentation, checked October 11.

Meta built its Meta AI agent into the glasses' operating system, so you can ask it to play a movie or rearrange your screens. Any table can also become a virtual keyboard and touchpad, and the glasses can connect to a Mac or Windows computer.

Meta's developer documentation adds a detail the launch post leaves out. It calls the 70-by-66-degree field of view an upper bound, and gives developers a smaller “perceived” target of 58 by 54 degrees for testing.

Testers liked the weight, but commenters questioned the view

In The Verge's hands-on, the glasses felt “like a lightweight Vision Pro,” far lighter than the 515-gram Quest 3. Its reporter placed the price between the Quest 3 and Apple's $3,499 Vision Pro, but didn't expect the glasses to transform VR.

The Verge also reported 12GB of memory, 128GB of storage and a refresh rate of up to 120Hz. Meta's announcement doesn't list those specifications.

The Hacker News thread on the glasses drew 481 comments, and we read the top 30 on October 11. About a quarter expressed distrust of Meta itself, and about one in five doubted that VR has a practical use yet.

Four objected to the narrow field of view, while about one in six praised the hardware. That's a snapshot of early reactions, not a survey.

The key problem is it's Meta.

fidotron on Hacker News, September 24

Ray-Ban Meta Audio glasses ship October 13 from $349

Ray-Ban Meta Audio are Meta's first audio glasses: open-ear speakers and its AI assistant in a 43-gram frame. They last up to 12 hours, with up to 48 more from the case. Both new styles, Clubmaster and Burbank, accept prescription lenses.

Ray-Ban Meta (Gen 3), with a 12MP camera and up to nine hours of battery life, went on sale at Connect from $449. Meta says Muse will reach its AI glasses in the coming months, letting wearers call the agent by name.

Ray-Ban Meta Audio pre-orders are open from $349, with shipping from October 13. Meta VR Glasses go on sale in spring 2027 for $1,299.99, and Meta hasn't said which countries will receive them first. Muse Charm still has no price or ship date.