Meta's $1,000+ Hypernova smart glasses may launch this year with tiny built-in display

Something to look forward to: Meta's love of smart glasses is set to continue with a new device codenamed Hypernova that sounds distinctly cyberpunky. The glasses will feature a tiny heads-up display integrated into one of the lenses, which partly explains why it will cost anywhere between $1,000 and $1,400. The Hypernova smart glasses will arrive later this year, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman, so we could see them unveiled at the Meta Connect conference scheduled to take place on September 17 and 18. The big selling point could be the miniature monocular panel in the right-hand lens. It's expected that this screen could show app notifications from a user's phone, let them access their photos, or even see directions from an app such as Google Maps. The glasses' functions will be controlled using hand gestures and capacitive touch on the side of the frame. Gurman writes that the screen is in the lower-right quadrant of the right lens and is best viewed when looking downward. W ... Read full article.