Meta to Release Multiple New Smart Glasses Models and Test AI Pendant in 2026

Meta will release up to four new smart glasses models before the end of 2026 and begin testing an AI pendant over the coming year, Engadget reported, citing The Information. The devices will be powered by Meta's AI models and the unreleased consumer AI agent called Hatch. The company purchased Limitless in 2025.

Limitless made a clip-on Bluetooth microphone called Pendant that listens and records everything a user says or hears throughout the day. The device provides summaries, transcripts and a searchable database of conversations. Meta is debuting a new pair of smart glasses codenamed Modelo as soon as June 2026.

Luna and RBM2 Refresh will follow this fall. Mojito VIP is scheduled for release in December 2026. The company is also testing models named Artemis and SSG, or supersensing glasses, for future releases.

Meta wants to expand its smart glasses offerings beyond its collaborations with Ray-Ban and Oakley, according to an internal memo written by the company's VP for wearables, Alex Himel. Himel wrote that the goal is to get more people to use the company's AI models and to compel them to pay for subscriptions.

Meta is planning to launch a business-focused subscription service called Wearables for Work.

The company is aiming to get at least 10 companies to sign up for the service and is targeting deployments to at least two large organizations that need 100 devices each. Meta recently launched subscription tiers with exclusive features for Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp. The new monthly payment system is called Meta One.

Meta's goal is to sell 10 million wearables in the second half of 2026, Himel told employees. The company will make the products available in more countries to reach that target. Meta's Reality Labs division lost $19 billion in 2025.

The division houses the company's hardware business and has been losing money for years. Mark Zuckerberg told investors during Meta's earnings call for the fourth quarter of 2025 that the division is going to focus on glasses and wearables going forward and that the company expects the division's losses to gradually become smaller.

Meta recently announced a new vision to bring personal superintelligence to everyone.

Limitless CEO Dan Siroker said at the time of the acquisition that a key part of that vision is building incredible AI-enabled wearables.