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Meta Connect 2025 kicks off today, and the company is expected to showcase several new products and use the event to sharpen its XR strategy toward AI-driven hardware that can be worn and used today.
Last year's Connect 2024 conference brought some notable improvements to its Meta Ray-Ban smart glasses, including multimodal video support, live translations, and natural language processing.
Also: 5 Meta Ray-Ban upgrades that have me truly hyped for today
Meta also previewed advances in Llama 3, showing how its AI research was driving new features. Connect 2024 showed how consumers could continue to embrace AI wearables, setting the stage for Meta to make a bigger leap into display-driven smart glasses and a full developer platform to support them. Here's what's on the docket for 2025, and how to tune in.
How to watch Meta Connect 2025
The main keynote with Mark Zuckerberg begins Wednesday, September 17, at 5:00 p.m. Pacific time, 8:00 p.m. Eastern time. The developer keynote follows on Thursday morning at 10:00 a.m. Pacific, 1:00 p.m. Eastern.
While developers, media, and industry analysts have been invited to attend the event in person, Meta's official Connect website and Facebook Live will offer streams for public viewing. Quest users can also experience it in virtual reality inside Horizon Worlds. ZDNET is reporting live from the event, and here are the latest updates.
What to expect at Meta Connect 2025
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