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Meta Connect 2025

The keynote that delivered breakthroughs, upgrades and entertaining yet failed demos revealed Meta’s dedication to innovation in Reality Labs even amidst headwinds.

Here are the highlights:

1. Ray-Ban AI Glasses with Display and neural wristband (Bloomberg, RoadToVR)

   1. Reviews: Road to VR, The Verge

2. Meta Ray-Ban Gen 2 AI Glasses(Meta)

3. Horizon Engine to replace Unity for Horizon Worlds (The Verge)

4. Oakley Meta Vanguard with the sport look (Meta)

5. Avatar trailer on Quest 3 in 3D from James Cameron (UploadVR)

6. Everything announced and a few reviews of hands on testing (UploadVR)

Artificial Intelligence

1. ElevenLabs introduces Studio 3.0 to centralize tooling into one editor

   This tool brings together advanced audio models with support for voiceovers, music, sound effects and more. (X)

2. Facebook Dating adds features to address swipe fatigue
   They introduced dating assistant and Meet Cute with the aim of helping you meet more people you’re interested in without endless swiping. (Meta)

3. Biostate AI Launches K-Dense Beta, an AI Agent for scientific research

   This agent compresses research cycles from years to days and has been validated through a Harvard longevity discovery breakthrough (globenewswire)

4. ‘Ask Gemini’ AI will tell you what you missed during a Google Meet call

   The assistant can answer participant’s questions by referring to captions generated during the call or resources like google docs and sheets. (The Verge)

5. Learn Your Way is an experiment from Google to reimagine learning

   Learn Your Way uses AI to transform textbook materials into interactive guides. (Google)
   

Spatial Computing

1. Meta launches Hyperscape, technology to turn real-world spaces into VR

   The most realistic VR environments yet and you can scan them right from your Quest 3 headset. Minority report anyone? (TechCrunch)

2. Purdue celebrates opening of Spatial Computing Hub

   Apple technology transforms how students learn and create through immersive technologies. How will this impact the future workforce? (Purdue)

3. Meta’s HorizonTV is a one stop shop streaming hub for Quest headsets

   The platform will support several streaming platforms, including Disney+, Hulu and ESPN (PCMag)
   

Robotics

1. Experts weigh in on Wuji Tech’s robotic hand

   A “remarkably robust” direct-drive contender which is a fancy way of saying the opposite of what everyone else is doing but actually works. (Humanoids Daily)

2. Figure announces strategic partnership with Brookfield asset manager

   The first of its kind partnership is a milestone towards building general-purpose humanoid robots that can navigate the real world. (Figure)

3. Figure secures deal to deploy 100K humanoid robots in 4 years

   They really had a busy week. This deal might be one of the largest humanoid robot deals ever and it escalates the U.S.-China competition (CoAI)

Transportation

1. Tesla wins approval to test autonomous taxis in Arizona

   The ride sharing service has been approved to start testing their vehicles with a safety monitor. Another step towards the Robotaxi vision. (Reuters)

Biotech

1. Elon Musk’s Neuralink plans brain implant trial for speech impairments

   The plan is to launch a trial in October with the goal of helping people translate their thoughts directly into text. (Reuters)

2. Major leap in Optogenetics and Brain Research with light sensitive proteins

   This could open the door to new ways of studying the brain, better treatments for conditions like Parkinson’s and even restore vision. (Dr. Singularity)

3. How to build a brain: Brought to you by Neuralink

   In an intriguing breakdown Neuralink shows you how and why they build their own human (fake) heads. (Ashlee Vance)

Our vision

This week in tech Meta Connect stole the show and released one of the biggest breakthroughs in consumer hardware we’ve seen in years. And it wasn’t the glasses with the display but the neural wristband that people were raving about. The monocular display of the glasses will take some getting used to, but wearing a bracelet that can read the electrical signals your brain is sending your hand to interact with the software in the glasses, now that is something we can all get behind. Let’s see how Meta iterates on this glasses and wristband pairing over time and if they sell more than Meta expects.

Hyperscape was also an announcement from Meta in the realm of spatial computing and it definitely feels like a step in the right direction towards a Holodeck from Star Trek. The scans that regular people can take with their Quest 3 headset are some of the most realistic virtual environments I’ve ever seen. A great use case and form of content for their line of devices.

In the world of robotics Figure continues to take big strides towards becoming the market leader in humanoid robot production and adoption. Their new partnerships to gather real world data with Brookfield combined with a huge 100,000 robot sale over four years (sounds like an athletic contract) with bolster Figure’s lead in the humanoid robot market and keep them on a fast track to adoption.

Lastly Neuralink is planning to implant their latest device in humans for a trial focused on giving people telepathic abilities to turn thoughts into text. 10 years from now do you think we’ll have consumer ready products from Neuralink that give people an edge in society and the workplace? Will there be a battle between the cyborgs that have implants vs the smart glasses/neural wristband crowd for economic and social dominance? It really feels like we are walking the path to our sci fi future, but a lot of people (including us) think we’re already living in it.

See you next week!

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