Meta Connect 2026 highlights Muse personal agent, glasses hardware, and Charm device

Meta used its Meta Connect 2026 event to present Muse, its personal agent, as the core of a hardware-plus-agent strategy. The company shipped new agent features, updated its glasses lineup, and teased—but did not release—a new frontier model.

Muse now supports voice and real-time video interactions, enabling long conversations while performing background tasks. Video chat with customizable voices is marked as "coming soon." Muse can also be activated on all Meta glasses using a wake word, and each Muse user receives a dedicated email address for task delegation and communication.

Meta announced a handheld device called Charm, which allows users to interact with the Muse personal agent without a phone, computer, or glasses. Charm is scheduled to ship in December. Additionally, Meta introduced Ray-Ban Meta Gen 3 glasses with longer battery life, upgraded microphones, and new styles, as well as Meta VR Glasses priced at $1,299.

The company highlighted Muse's integrations with retail and productivity platforms, including Walmart, Best Buy, Gap, Sephora, Instacart, Box, GitHub, Granola, and Notion. Meta also noted that its connector platform includes over 1,500 applications. Muse remains free for users, though Meta may eventually take a cut of transactions.

Meta introduced Muse Realtime Avatar, a model that animates the user's Muse in sync with real-time voice interactions. The system answers in under a second, supports unbounded session lengths, and watermarks AI output without adding latency. Meta describes it as "the foundation for realtime, embodied AI across our products."

Meta confirmed the acquisition of WaveForms AI, a speech/audio startup led by Alexis Conneau, whose work was featured at Connect. This acquisition aligns with the real-time voice and avatar capabilities demonstrated during the event.

Meta teased a new frontier model, with a spokesperson stating, "pretty soon we are dropping the most capable model we have ever trained." However, no specific details or release timeline were provided beyond this statement.