Meta lately unveiled Oakley Meta HSTN, the corporate’s newest sensible glasses created in collaboration with EssilorLuxottica. Now, knowledge miner and serial leaker ‘Luna’ has obtained photos of what seems to be Meta’s subsequent pair of sensible glasses, this time together with a built-in show and wrist-worn controller.
Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman reported in January that Meta was engaged on two new pairs of sensible glasses: a sportier unit styled by Oakley—formally confirmed final month—and a high-end pair, codenamed ‘Hypernova’, which incorporates a built-in show and gesture management due to the an electromyography (EMG) primarily based wrist-worn controller.
Gurman’s report alleged that Hypernova is slated to debut someday this yr, priced between $1,000 and $1,400. With the invention of photos and tutorials by Luna, it’s doable Meta is within the closing levels of prepping for launch.
Luna posted a lot of photos and movies on X, together with what seems to be product photographs of Meta Hypernova and its wristband controller, codenamed ‘Ceres’.
Ostensibly mined from current Meta firmware releases, Luna says glasses will probably be named ‘Meta Celeste’.
Supplied the ‘Meta Celeste’ naming scheme is closing, it might counsel Meta is pitching solo, and never cross-promoting prefer it does with Ray-Ban Meta or Oakley Meta glasses. Notably, ‘Celeste’ isn’t a reputation utilized by any of the French-Italian conglomerate’s varied eyewear sub-brands.
As seen in motion with Meta’s Orion AR glasses prototype, the controller makes use of EMG to detect gestures, resembling pinching and hand rotation for UI choice—one thing contact and voice enter can’t actually try this effectively. The model of the system under seems almost an identical, though it appears to be from a brand new tutorial.
Amongst Luna’s trove of information, the leaker additionally seems to have discovered a lot of movies and textual content from the system’s tutorial:
“Time for some magic! Do you know you possibly can management your glasses show along with your arms? Let’s learn the way. When your band detects a gesture, you’ll really feel a buzz in your wrist. Let’s begin by choosing one thing. Shortly faucet your index finger to your thumb and launch.”
Meta Ceres EMG Wristband (FP Recording) pic.twitter.com/vDOYUtVnxY
— Luna (@Lunayian) June 30, 2025
Meta Hypernova/Ceres gestures. pic.twitter.com/7lKRd0v1NT
— Luna (@Lunayian) June 30, 2025
The enter to seize picture/video. https://t.co/RSJIqAlLAO pic.twitter.com/vkgvofIL5w
— Luna (@Lunayian) June 30, 2025
What’s extra, Luna’s digging has provide you with an alleged mini-game, referred to as ‘Hypertrail’, that appears to utilize the system’s controller and single show for a Galaga-inspired sport that might leverage the person’s bodily location ultimately.
A minimum of within the early firmware, Meta Hypernova (Celeste preliminary) appears to have a built-in mini-game referred to as Hypertrail. Wanting over the belongings, it could be impressed by Galaga or related but additionally contain the person’s location ultimately. pic.twitter.com/TYEb8gYANJ
— Luna (@Lunayian) July 1, 2025
Luna seems to be developing with extra supporting photos, movies and textual content associated to Hypernova and Ceres. We’ll replace this piece with extra information because it arrives.
