Meta XR Simulator 207.1 adds AMD GPU support and webcam grab and pinch on Windows and Mac. A Linux package also posted three alpha builds in about 14.5 hours, but its notes sit behind a sign-in.
EssilorLuxottica and Meta put Ray-Ban Meta and Oakley Meta AI glasses on sale in Thailand from October 20, 2026, with Thai-language Meta AI and suggested prices from 16,290 baht.
Pinacoteca di Brera, Meta and EssilorLuxottica launched Sensing Art on Oct 13: loaned AI glasses recognise eight paintings and play three audio tracks each, with Meta AI and Be My Eyes on hand. No model, unit count or end date was given.
Sandisk says it is the EXCLUSIVE storage partner for Meta VR Glasses, with Made for Meta microSD Express cards and USB-C drives due alongside the $1,300 headset in Spring 2027. Capacities, speed requirements, and PRICES are still missing.
Meta’s camera-free Ray-Ban Meta Audio glasses are on sale today from $349: 43 grams, up to 12 hours claimed, Clubmaster and Burbank, with day-one reviews split on value.
Meta has opened three more Meta Lab stores in Scottsdale, Atlanta, and Moynihan Train Hall, bringing the locations named in its running blog post to ten. It still shares no opening dates or sales figures.
Meta’s Wearables Device Access Toolkit caps third-party glasses video at 720×1280 and 30 fps, defaults to 504×896, and says lower settings look better. MetaStream measured 450–600 kbps at 720p30.
Austria’s Federal Administrative Court overturned the expulsion of a Vienna student who kept wearing Meta glasses in class, finding no evidence of recordings. The directorate has filed an extraordinary appeal, and Minister Christoph Wiederkehr says a law letting individual schools ban the glasses may follow if the case is lost.
CDA and PRO asked the Dutch cabinet to raise a public-use ban, and in PRO’s case sales limits, at the October 12-13 informal EU telecom meeting. The Irish presidency’s published programme does not mention smart glasses, and the cabinet has not replied.
EON Reality plans to bring its Field IQ industrial guidance app to Meta’s $1,299.99 VR Glasses for spring 2027, yet its own release notes Meta has not said whether apps can use the glasses’ cameras.