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Beyond Glasses: Meta Teases a Muse Handheld and a 100-Gram VR Headset

A Tamagotchi-like device just for talking to Muse, and a VR headset that offloads its processor to your pocket — Meta's two boldest hardware bets from Connect.

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Published Sep 23, 2026

Beyond its smart glasses refresh, Meta used Connect to tease two entirely new hardware categories: a palm-sized handheld device for talking to Muse without wearing anything on your face, and a dramatically lighter VR headset built around an external compute puck.

100g

Meta VR Glasses weight (vs. 515g for Quest 3)

MicroOLED display, per eye

$1,299.99

Meta VR Glasses, spring 2027

Dec.

Muse Charm's targeted holiday shipping window

Muse Charm: a Tamagotchi for talking to your AI agent

Meta unveiled Muse Charm, a dedicated palm-sized 5G device built specifically for interacting with Muse. The device resembles a small smartwatch or Tamagotchi-like handheld, with a tiny screen and built-in 5G connectivity so it can reach Muse without needing a phone nearby. Zuckerberg said it offers the fastest way to talk with Muse for people who aren't wearing smart glasses. The product is still early: Meta has built only a few units so far and is still finalizing materials and components, but Zuckerberg said the company plans to ship Muse Charm in time for the December holiday season.

Meta VR Glasses: a headset that finally feels like glasses

On the VR side, Meta unveiled Meta VR Glasses, a headset that weighs just 100 grams — a fraction of the 515 grams of the current Meta Quest 3 — by moving processing and battery hardware into a separate, wired pocket compute puck. That puck packs a Snapdragon Reality Elite processor, 128GB of storage, 12GB of RAM, and up to three hours of media-playback battery life. The glasses themselves use a 5K MicroOLED display with 2,412-by-2,288 pixels per eye and refresh rates up to 120Hz, controlled through eye tracking and hand gestures tracked by six external cameras — no neural wristband required. Meta says more than 75 games will support hands-first play at launch, on top of the existing Quest app catalog. The device is set to go on sale in spring 2027 for $1,299.99.

The bigger picture: both devices point in the same direction — getting AI and immersive computing out of bulky, all-in-one hardware and into lighter, more wearable (or pocketable) form factors. Muse Charm bets that some people want AI access without wearing anything on their face at all; Meta VR Glasses bets that the path to lightweight VR runs through offloading compute to a separate puck rather than cramming everything into the headset itself.

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