Meta Plans to Provide the First Samples of its AR Glasses to Testers Next Year

Meta’s AR glasses strategy continues to be revised, with the company now planning to ship only a thousand pairs of its initial AR glasses, which it’s looking to get out to early testers sometime next year.

According to a new report from The Information, Meta will take a similar approach to Snap Inc., in building an initial small test batch of its AR device, which it will provide to selected partners and creators for experiments.

Given that Snap lost millions on the production of its first iteration of its Spectacles, that approach makes a lot of sense, while it’ll also give Meta some early samples of the user experience to showcase to potential buyers, before a full commercial release of the glasses in 2027.