Remember the Meta smart glasses leak? Turns out that wasn't a leak — it was a preview. At Meta Connect, Zuckerberg officially pulled the sheet off the Meta VR Glasses at $1,299, and alongside them came something genuinely weird: the Muse Charm, a tiny pendant you fidget with to boss around AI agents. No phone, no screen, no wrist required. Meta calls it their first "holdable." I call it a smartwatch that quit the wrist and moved to the necklace.
Wall Street is nodding along, cautiously — analysts like the glasses-as-AI-agent-platform play. The internet? Considerably less convinced. Camera-equipped glasses that are always listening got branded "pervert glasses" within hours, and Zuckerberg's big answer was to promise Meta will lead on privacy anyway. Bold words from a company whose entire business model is, well, you.
Twenty-six minutes of keynote, two gadgets, one necklace. The glasses are the product; the Charm is the bet — that you'll want an AI agent hanging around your neck before you want one on your face. Wall Street will decide by Friday. Your neck gets a vote too.
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