Meta VR Glasses Officially Announced, Shipping Spring 2027 for $1,300

Meta officially announced its new VR glasses, a lightweight headset that represents a significant shift in the company's hardware strategy. Priced at $1,300, the glasses will ship in Spring 2027 and feature dual 120Hz 2412×2288 HDR micro-OLED displays powered by a separate compute puck connected via fiber optic cable.

The tethered architecture is central to the design philosophy. By offloading all processing to the puck, Meta reduced the visor to roughly 100 grams, constructed from magnesium alloy with a fanless, passively cooled design. The puck houses Qualcomm's Snapdragon Reality Elite chipset, 12GB of RAM, and 128GB of storage with microSD expansion. It runs the same operating system as Quest 3 and supports all existing Quest 3 content, rendered at notably higher resolution through eye-tracked foveated rendering.

The open-periphery design allows natural visibility of the real world at the sides and below. However, this form factor comes with a display compromise: the field of view measures 70 degrees horizontal by 66 degrees vertical (87 degrees diagonal), compared to Quest 3's roughly 110 by 96 degrees. Meta positions the glasses for passthrough mixed reality use, where the narrower field of view is less problematic than in fully immersive scenarios.

Meta VR Glasses do not include controllers by default, though Touch Plus controllers are available separately in a new all-black color. Users can pair controllers from existing Quest 3 or Quest 3S devices, and bundle options with controllers will be available through select retail channels. The visor includes hand tracking, eye tracking via four cameras, and face tracking capabilities. Users can also connect any USB-C DisplayPort device to the puck to display content as a large virtual screen without requiring a capture card.

The displays mark another first: they are the company's first non-LCD headset since the original Oculus Quest. They support Dolby Vision HDR and Meta notes the glasses are the first VR device to be IMAX Enhanced certified, with a pixel density of 37 pixels per degree compared to 25 for Quest 3.

Meta plans to market the product as "a private cinema, multiple virtual monitor workspace, and game console in one device that fits in your bag." The announcement included new hand-tracked games launching alongside the hardware, including a hand-tracked Beat Saber mode called Flux. Meta also unveiled Hologram, its photorealistic avatar system for video calls that will eventually support full 6DoF representation. At launch, spatial Holograms will appear as 2.5D stereoscopic video streams at true scale but only from a front-angle perspective.