VR.org maps Snap SPECS, Android XR, XREAL AURA, and Meta DAT 1.0 as a distribution mismatch: stores waiting on hardware, hardware waiting on a store.
Tom’s Guide’s Scott Younker arrived skeptical of VR headsets and left impressed by Meta VR Glasses comfort — while calling out selection highlighting and the surface keyboard as unfinished.
Road to VR’s Connect hands-on finds Meta Hologram photoreal but 2.5D — phone selfie capture, WhatsApp Early Access on Ray-Ban Display first, full-body on VR Glasses later.
Digit maps Apple Vision Pro, Samsung Galaxy XR, and Meta VR Glasses as three XR bets — premium all-on-face, Android XR platform, and games-cinema puck — with India duties still undecided.
Gadgets Now’s Sept 28 buyer guide says M5 Vision Pro can be up to eight times heavier on the face than Meta’s ~100g VR Glasses — and that weight split, not another chip race, is the real buy decision.
Mixed-News and Meta’s Connect update put hard regional stickers on Ray-Ban Display: UK £749 and Canada CA$1,149 live now; France, Italy, and Germany €899 from October 13 — Neural Band bundled, software still U.S.-first on some features.
A September 26 PlayTechDeep spec sheet argues Meta’s glasses and Quest products share a brand but solve opposite jobs — from camera-free Ray-Ban Meta Audio at $349 to $1,299.99 Meta VR Glasses for spring 2027.
Road to VR’s September 28 review calls Arcturus Vision’s $149 Steam Frame camera a night-and-day passthrough upgrade — readable phones, Quest 3-level color, spatial video included.
At Meta Connect, CTO Andrew Bosworth told The Ghost Howls that Quest 3 sold nearly as well as cheaper Quest 3S — evidence that comfort and quality matter as much as a $200 cut, and fuel for lightweight Meta VR Glasses.
Mashable’s Alex Perry compares Meta VR Glasses to Quest 3 on paper: $1,299 vs $599, 70°×66° vs ~110°×96°, micro-OLED and a puck versus a sealed headset that already ships.