MN VR and HCI Sept 2025: Meta Connect

Meta Connect XR Highlights

The annual Meta Connect developer conference is Sept 17-18th (with all sessions online.) Join our annual event to cheer and jeer all the announcements from the main keynote, developer’s keynote, and other XR highlights – condensed into 60-ish minutes! Then, we’ll take the discussion across the sidewalk to Yardhouse.

We expect to see:

• New smart glasses with a display
• …and an EMG wrist band that reads your nerves!
• Top secret SDK for smart glasses
• 3rd party Quest headsets
• Quest version of SharePlay
• No AI Snoop Dog

Connect in-person – Matt Foreman, Space Age Interactive

Quick highlights from attending Connect in-person, and adjacent XR events. Hopefully including new hardware impressions.

Schedule:

• 6:30 Social and setup
• 7:00 Kickoff / announcements
• 7:15 Matt
• 7:30 Connect XR highlights
• ~8:30 Tear-down, cross the sidewalk to Yardhouse

Attending:

This event will be in person at the REM5 STUDIOS new office in West End only

Park underground and take the central red elevator to ground level, then cross the sidewalk. REM5 STUDIOS is across from Yardhouse. Map below.

About MN VR and HCI:

MN VR and HCI (Human-Computer Interaction) welcomes developers, tinkerers and enthusiasts working with all variety of VR, AR, HCI, hardware hacking, creative coding and interactive art. Members are working on projects with custom displays and lenses, projection mapping, mocap, tiny computers, servos and sensors, interactive art and a wide variety of VR, AR, motion and computer vision applications. If you’ve only been to our parent group IGDATC meetings, MN VR and HCI is a slightly different format: We aim for smaller group discussions and lots of specific details.