US EditionInside Facebook Owner Meta’s New £12m Audio Research Lab in Cambridge for AI-Powered Glasses
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Meta opens $16M audio research lab in UK's Ox-Cam corridor
Today, Meta has inaugurated a new $16 million (£12 million) audio research lab in Cambridge, part of the UK government's Ox-Cam corridor. The facility is designed to advance audio technologies for future AR and AI glasses, including Ray-Ban Meta and Oakley Meta.The Cambridge lab replicates everyday acoustic environments with precision. It features ultra-quiet testing spaces such as anechoic chambers, a large configurable reverberation room with …
Meta launches £12m audio research lab in UK
Meta, parent company of Facebook and Instagram, is opening a £12m audio research lab in Cambridge. Located within the government’s ‘Ox-Cam corridor’, the state-of-the-art facility is dedicated to advancing audio technologies for Meta’s future AR and AI glasses, including Ray-Ban Meta and the newly announced Oakley Meta. The lab is designed to replicate everyday acoustic environments with extreme precision. It includes ultra-quiet acoustic testin…
The new audio lab focuses on the development of intelligent audio systems that adapt to the user and the persuasive environment. This technology proposes to transform the daily experience. The Meta teams train the glasses to detect the user's concentration and improve sound. Meta opens a new audio research laboratory worth $16 million in Cambridge, located within the UK Ox-Cam corridor. This latest generation installation is dedicated to the dev…
World, 9 July 2025 (ATB Digital).— A filtered image has revealed for the first time the appearance of the Meta Hypernova, the new smart glasses that the company would release before the end of the year. The device, which incorporates a bracelet as a remote control, displays information directly in the user's field of vision and promises advanced functions similar to those of the missing Google Glass. Unlike the Meta Ray-Ban, which only integrate…
Meta opens £12 million Cambridge lab as part of AI glasses expansion
Chancellor Rachel Reeves said: "Reeves said: "Meta's investment is a huge vote of confidence in the UK as a hub for world-leading research and innovation while helping to supercharge the potential in the Oxford to Cambridge growth corridor"
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