The future behind Meta Quest and Vision Pro comes in the form of glasses. How will VR look then?

The CEO of Meta Mark Zuckerberg recently announced that the future tool The glasses filled with Amnesty International. Zuckerberg and Meta were interested in these types of peripheral devices for years, but it is clear that the concentration recently turns from VR on our faces to glasses on our faces.

Meta is not alone here. You see Apple in the future in AR. Google also does. As well as Samsung. The list of players lasts and prolonged. With VR turning into a mixed reality, smart glasses promise to have augmented reality features, and artificial intelligence develops more features See what we can seeThe battle of the facial tools comes to a crossroads.

As a reference to the tools of augmented and virtual reality, it was very easy over the past few years for me Choose the headphone for recommendation. Meta search headphones are the best price in my tests, and META has added additions from the next level such as mixed reality and tracking hands and practical features such as the ability to work independent and with computers. But the certainty of the VR space in a flow. AR and Smart glasses They are coming quickly. I He actually saw it In cutting.

It is clear that, when entering in late 2025, the scene of the AR/VR devices turns. I expect Meta’s Quest 3 and 3s To continue their covenant as my favorite headphones until the end of this year, but new competitors will arrive soon and in forms you don’t even feel what happened before. Samsung and Google are finally released Mohan projectBefore a A wave of glasses In 2026. Apple can have an updated version of Vision Pro with a new high -resolution chip on board, as well as support units and other accessories. Smart glasses will pay additional features that challenge us to our faces, Provide artificial intelligence functions In new ways. It really happens.

I think Meta itself can play the largest wild card. for me Conditions last year from OrionThe pair of the first model of AR glasses can be an introduction to the manufacture of a new pair of high -end smart glasses this year that contains a wrist screen and a wrist tape to control gestures, a starting step towards the Orion game plan. When it comes to the following VR headphones, at the same time, Meta can burn a smaller design, and perhaps the high -end devices made by manufacturers of external parties.

Finally, a valve – a long sleeper in virtual reality since then The release of the headphone headphone In 2019-it is rumored that he is preparing for new headphones that could be independent and connected to the computer. Will this headphone appear in 2025 or newer? Although Valve is likely to focus on the AR, the VR game space can easily be redefined for the next few years.

Here is the technology that I keep in both cases in the last months of 2025.

The Google and Samsung Moohan International project adds Amnesty International to the mix

Last December, I Moohaan headphone was tried I saw something that I did not test anywhere else: On board AI could comment on the things I used to see on the screen and analyze it.

Moohan is the first -awaited product of the Google Android XR platform. It is designed by Samsung, and it will be a starting view of the place where the following products of Google AR/VR can go. It seems that a lot of Android XR focuses on glasses, with the announcement of artificial intelligence glasses for the next year, a product of tied devices that are enabled by Xreal, and Samsung plans for the full AR glasses that are waiting for the wings.

Meanwhile, the PROJECT MOOHAN-name is the name Samsung for headphones at the present time-advanced VR headphones with a mixed reality looking to clarify how Google Play applications are operating in VR, and how Gemini AI will work in headphones.

We know that Moohan will be released in 2025, but when it remains exactly – the cost of it – a puzzle. Everything looks premium like Vision Pro of $ 3499 of Apple, with a high -resolution width, eye tracking and tied battery package. But Mohan will be a sign of the place where Google and Samsung aspirations are heading in this field, even if it is not necessarily affordable. Apple and Meta can also be paid to develop their work on board their headphones.

The following Meta glasses can bring a “nervous band” to change the game

Meta often comes out with the surprises of devices around Connect, its developer conference in September that he brought every year. In 2024, Mita revealed Quest 3s He gave me a prior look at the Model Glasses named Meta Orion. This year, based on reports, Meta VR may exceed and emphasize glasses again.

Ray-Bans from Meta was a hot seller, with Essilorluxotica partner The growth of revenue has doubled three times for smart glasses Last year. Zuckerberg made glasses a great focus last year, wearing Ray-Bans and Orion glasses on the stage during his keyword. In July, Meta introduced a new Oakley Meta HSTN With improved battery life and camera quality, which I already did Stir the test on my face.

Reports indicate that a set of smart glasses will be revealed, perhaps with a good width enough to show notifications and even play games. These non -escalating AR glasses will also come with a terminal that can be a key to everything that happens after that: nerve input wrist.

When Orion tried last year, I wore this wrist and used it to move in gestures in glasses. The EMG technology is used that senses electrical signals on the wrist, and records small fingers that can be used by smart glasses. The end result is a type of camera -based hand -based or Apple’s hand Hymmetric taps On Apple Watch, but gestures can be read with this type of range outside the range of cameras and with a wide range of sincerity of anything else available at the present time.

I moved to the dead Orion glasses with a pinch, taps and thumb, but Meta search using this technology It is more on the road. Meta can get at the door the nerve technology by launching this band now and ingenuity over time. Zuckerberg told me in 2022 that he sees the band as a Global input deviceThis means that it can be used in the end with VR headphones and even other devices as well.

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Micro -wearable devices are needed for smaller glasses, and can even be mixed in smart watch designs. It appears to be a missing link to glasses, and companies such as Google and Samsung have already recognized as a future direction.

Meta may not be totally pronounced this year, though. A year ago, dead Announce The OS Quest-ALIKES horizon was supposed to make one time soon. Lenovo and ASUS are the first well -known partners, but headphones have not yet appeared. Perhaps it will be announced this year, as the pro -materials supporting the material while Meta takes a year -long vacation. Microsoft Quest bears xbox signAnd that was finally sold this summer after announcing it at the same time as these third headphones may be, may be a sign that the other news is just around the corner.

You can get Apple’s Vision Pro

I have reviewed Apple products for years and was one of a handful of journalists to be the first to be Professional vision reviewAnd even I have difficulty guessing as Apple is heading in the XR space. The company is tight in future plans, and while many reports indicate the place to which Apple may go, the actual pace of development of Vision Pro features has moved slowly since its launch in early 2024.

Reports say Apple will manufacture smaller headphones and smart glasses, but it is part of mystery. Next year? The following year? Maybe the year after that? Reports continue to transform.

Read more: Vision Pro future needs to accelerate

Meanwhile, it seems likely that Apple Go to update the professional vision With a new M chip – either M4 or M5 – soon, along with a more comfortable head belt, according to reliable Bloomberg correspondent Mark Gorkman. This can happen this fall or early next year.

What we know about Apple’s vision plans is that Visionos 26 It will support spatial control and accessories for the first time, starting with PlayStation VR 2 Wireless Logitech control units. What we have not yet seen is the applications and games that will work with those new inputs, and how much will be there. I am already I tried the updated personal Avatar And the elements of the mixed reality in OS VISION, which will also come.

The new M-Series processor can allow better graphics for design applications and games on the headphone. The door can also be opened in favor of deeper artificial intelligence on the capital that uses multiple cameras to see the world. Apple has not announced any plans for visual intelligence on Vision Pro yet, but may start cutting devices to fall this year.

Will Valve cook a new VR headphone again?

The most interesting reports, and reports that can shake the space further, indicate to a New VAR Var headphones It can work both connected to a personal computer. Project Deckard has been rumored for years, and Valve still shows constant interest in virtual reality despite the lack of new VR headphones since 2019. This would enable steam connection connections to Meta questions well like personal computer headphones as well.

Some previous reports suggested that Decard call a future steam surface Mobile game control unitPlay games while moving while connecting to the control unit for performance preparation. It will be logical, but Valve may not have a new steam surface for at least a year or more. Or Deckard can have a deck energy on its own appliances on the plane.

If Deckard appears, it ends up with reasonable prices – if some reports indicate, since some reports indicate that the price may exceed $ 1,000, and the index was also expensive – it may be a more attractive option than the national pursuit of games.

Behind Meta, VR struggled to introduce new new game options. Sony’s PlayStation VR 2 Try to become a VR extremist attachment, but Sony’s lack of consistent support for new games, and headphones need to connect PS5, obstruct their attractiveness. If Valve is able to make the following headphones actually act as a self -autonomous mobile device like Steam Deck, this may raise the definition of what “PC VR” and the place of play means. In this process, perhaps, it can put ways that can interact with headphones and smaller glasses in the future using computers, tablets and tablets similar to small tablets.

Are VR headphones to the future anymore?

Or is the future only about glasses? It seems that many companies like Meta have been a pivotal in the AI improved and new model. Smart glasses benefit from noise and artificial intelligence function, but VR is not yet. CTO’s CTO, Andrew Busworth, Tell me a year ago This VR is the most difficult area for Gen AI to work with it from glasses at the present time, but this may change with the appearance of more tools for mixed reality headphones equipped with cameras, and Gen AI develops more models to work with drawings and 3D games. Smart glasses can be the first wave of artificial intelligence, and a reality mixed headphones from the next generation after that.

This year does not look forward to getting all answers. In fact, it seems to be a year of scattered pieces. But this year’s final products should help refer to the place where the future is heading. I can’t wait to put them on my head to take a closer look.