Meta is reportedly planning to launch a smartwatch this year

Meta plans to launch a smartwatch with health tracking and AI features later this year, along with an updated version of it. Meta Ray Ban offer smart glasses, Information Reports. The smartwatch will arrive before a pair of mixed reality glasses, codenamed Phoenix, which Meta has reportedly delayed until 2027 amid efforts to streamline the company’s AR and MR roadmap.

Previously dead It canceled plans for a previous smartwatch In 2022 due to technical challenges and cost-cutting measures. If the new watch, codenamed Malibu 2, comes to fruition, it will intensify competition with Apple, which is rumored it will be. Working on a pair of artificial intelligence smart glasses It could be launched next year, and will likely compete with the Meta eyewear line. Meta will also face significant competition for users’ wrist space from Google, Garmin, Samsung, Fitbit and others.

The Malibu 2 smartwatch comes on the heels of Meta’s launch of Ray-Ban Display AR glasses last year, which the company said proved popular enough that it had to Stopping international launches of eyewear Due to “unprecedented demand and limited inventory”. Ray-Ban Display glasses use a neural bracelet for gesture control, which will likely be replaced by a smartwatch.