Meta puts the processor for its VR glasses in a pocket puck

• Meta moved compute, battery, and storage into a wired pocket puck, leaving the glasses to handle sensors and display, as aakashgupta's post and Meta’s product announcement describe.
• The part worn on the face weighs about 100 grams, five times lighter than Quest 3 by Meta’s measure, a figure also reported.
• A 5K Micro-OLED display, eye and hand input, and a desk-sized virtual keyboard were among the on-stage details in ozansihay's Connect report.
• Meta lists US pricing at $1,299.99 and a Spring 2027 launch window, details carried in and the company’s Connect roundup.

Meta’s announcement says the open-sided frame and passthrough camera keep the wearer aware of the room. A Road to VR hands-on puts the display at 2,412 by 2,288 pixels per eye and 37 pixels per degree, while Meta is betting that a cable to the pocket is easier to wear than a computer on the face.

Meta describes the hardware as a deliberately split system:

• The glasses contain the sensors and display.
• A pocket-clipped puck contains compute, battery, and storage.
• An optical tether carries the connection between them.

The 100-gram claim applies to the frame on the face, not the whole kit being carried. aakashgupta’s description goes further, saying the frame has no main compute chip, battery, or tracking coprocessor; that separation removes the heaviest and hottest parts of a conventional headset from the wearer’s head.

Meta says magnesium-alloy construction supplies the glasses’ rigidity and cooling. The physical compromise is explicit: the user remains connected to the puck by a cable.

Meta calls the optics a 5K Micro-OLED “Infinite Display.” The Road to VR hands-on reports 2,412 by 2,288 pixels per eye at 37 pixels per degree, making this Meta’s first move from its recent LCD headsets to micro-OLED in a consumer VR device.

That density is being paired with a narrower field of view than Quest, according to aakashgupta's post. Meta’s stated targets are a private movie screen, live sports viewing, a workspace, and gaming, rather than room-filling peripheral immersion.

ozansihay reported controlling the interface with eye and hand movements and turning a physical table into a virtual keyboard. Meta’s announcement says the glasses can be used for work on a private portable screen during a long flight, with passthrough preserving a view of nearby surroundings.

The media pitch is more specific than a generic virtual theater: ozansihay reported an IMAX Enhanced-certified 3D movie experience. Meta’s Connect game announcement also says new titles are being designed around hand tracking without controllers.

Meta says every existing Quest game will be playable on VR Glasses with Touch Plus controllers, even as it develops hand-tracked titles for the device. That gives the Spring 2027 hardware a library on day one rather than a separate software catalog.

The company has set the US price at $1,299.99 and named Spring 2027, but has not announced an exact sale date in its official launch post.