Meta Connect 2026 runs on 23 and 24 September. The main keynote is today, at 4 pm California time — midnight in Lisbon. The expected topics are artificial intelligence, smart glasses and virtual reality.
We do not know what will be announced, and this piece does not depend on it. It depends on a question that will come up tomorrow in some meeting: "is the equipment we have already out of date?"
The manufacturer's calendar is not yours
Consumer electronics makers release new models at the pace of the consumer market — every year or two. A healthcare institution decides at a different pace: annual budget, procurement procedure, IT sign-off, staff training.
If every launch reopens the decision, the institution gets stuck in a cycle where it is always buying and never using.
Why we do not sell equipment
It is one of the reasons why, with RVer, the equipment is ours. The institution contracts a service; the equipment comes with it.
In practice, the question "is this model still good enough?" stops being the institution's. It is ours. If a device stops being fit for purpose, it is replaced within the service — no new procurement, no hardware inventory to write off.
What does not change with the model
The part that matters to a clinical team is not in the headset. It is in what runs on it and around it:
- the content library, chosen for clinical use;
- how the session is run — who is present, how to stop, what is recorded;
- the record of what happened in each session.
None of that starts from scratch because of an announcement. That is why a hardware launch, however interesting, is technology news and not a clinical decision.
Watch with curiosity, decide calmly
It is worth watching what Meta presents. Some advances — sharper screens, lighter devices — may come to matter for someone wearing a headset for twenty minutes in bed. When they do, the upgrade arrives through the service, tested, not on impulse.