Meta Connect 2024 will be held from September 25 to 26, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg revealed in an Instagram story on Monday. The company is expected to unveil new updates for its rumored Meta Quest 3s and AR glasses at the event.

According to Meta's social media profiles, Meta Connect 2024 will reveal developments on the company's long-term goal of assisting in creating the metaverse and examine the future of AI and mixed reality.

Reports claimed that Meta's PR team deliberately prioritized AI over XR. Google demonstrated AI for two hours straight at I/O 2024. Meta may follow suit this autumn by showcasing the advancements made in both its Llama 3 and Meta AI models.

Like how he unveiled the Quest 3 at Connect 2023, Zuckerberg would likely make the Meta Quest 3s (or Quest Lite) public at Meta Connect 2024. 

The Meta Quest 3s will purportedly sport the thicker Quest 2 lenses with reduced display resolution and the Quest 3's Snapdragon XR2 Gen 2 CPU and RGB cameras for full-color XR passthrough. All this will be done to target a reported $299 price tag that will appeal to budget shoppers. 

This year, Meta debuted its Horizon OS, an open-source operating system, along with partnerships like ASUS ROG and Lenovo that promised to produce VR headsets of their own. Thus, it's feasible that they will take the stage at Meta Connect to showcase its new gear. 

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"High field-of-view immersion" AR glasses are what Meta's Head of AR Glasses Hardware Caitlin Kalinowski, recently revealed in an interview with Android Central.

Although these Meta AR glasses will not be available for purchase for years, guests at Meta Connect 2024 may be able to test its first public prototype.

Meta will most likely devote some work on the Meta Ray-Ban Smart Glasses in the interim, as they just received a significant multimodal AI update.

As Meta Connect 2024 looks to arrive in just a few months, Meta continues to build on mixed reality ventures. A recent update on the company's Ray-Ban smart glasses has allowed it to upload Instagram stories directly, so no phone is needed.

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Meta's Ray-Ban Smart Glasses

The Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses update was released a month after the wearable device received an AI update. The technologically advanced Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses, with an ultra-wide 12 MP camera and integrated audio, were released in April.

It has an AI assistant that facilitates creation, communication, and task completion for users. Thanks to Meta AI, Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses couldusers see real-time data and control the glasses with voice commands.

In December, Meta started testing a multimodal AI upgrade that lets users query their glasses about what they are seeing and get useful replies or ideas since the smart glasses can see what users see.

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