Report: Meta plans light premium-VR glasses for media consumption

The device with the code name “Loma” is more powerful than the current Meta Quest and offers a better video quality, reports the Wall Street Journal. On the outside, it is more like great glasses than massive headsets such as Meta Quest and Apple Vision Pro. The glasses are connected to a small external computing unit that users can wear in their pocket.

According to the Wirtschaftsblatt, Meta is aiming for a price of less than $ 1,000 for the “premium device”. This would make it significantly more expensive than a meta quest (from 329.99 euros), but considerably cheaper than an Apple Vision Pro (from 3,999 euros).

Among other things, Meta has approached Disney, the A24 film studio and smaller production companies to develop immersive content for the new VR glasses. The company offers millions for immersive video formats based on well -known brands. In addition, negotiations are being made to license existing series and films.

Apple Vision Pro challenges new VR glasses

For some time now there have been reports that Meta is working on a new, ultra-compact VR glasses. The Techmagazin the Information already reported in 2024 of a prototype that weighs less than 110 grams. The low weight is achieved by being outsourced to a wired second device.

Meta would thus follow the model of the Apple Vision Pro, which also uses an external element in the form of a wired battery. Apple could also be inspired in terms of control: According to the information, the information is primarily operated by eye and hand tracking instead of controllers. Metas technology chief Andrew Bosworth later confirmed the existence of such a prototype.

Since the Immersive Media Consum was one of the most convincing use scenarios of the Apple Vision Pro, Metas could be seen as a direct attack on Apple – with a device that could be significantly easier and more compact than the Vision Pro.

Meta has already won a well -known partner for Immersive: At the end of 2024, the company announced a cooperation with James Cameron’s production company Lightstorm Vision. The partners want to produce high -quality, immersive content for devices such as the Meta Quest.

Virtual reality: new form factor, new hope?

The Report of the Wall Street Journal falls into a phase in which Meta has to deal with declining sales of the Meta Quest. In the first quarter of 2025, the company sold fewer devices than in the same period – even though the inexpensive Meta Quest 3S model was only launched for the Christmas business.

The fact that META focuses on media consumption in the new device should also be a reaction to internal data. In March, the company reported that a growing quest user group understands the VR glasses as an expansion of their television and uses primarily for media consumption. Meta expects this user group to play a major role in the Meta Quest ecosystem by 2027.

It remains to be seen whether METAS new VR glasses actually come on the market in the form described. It is known that META always develops several product prototypes in parallel and can also choose a different prototype of it at short notice.