Hardware & IoT

Meta

Website

Meta offers users a total augmented reality (AR) experience: - See, create, and interact with virtual objects and apps inserted in the real environment - Display with wearable glasses - Control with hand gestures Meta's goal is to lead the next evolution of personal computing through augmented reality, replacing desktops, laptops, tablets, and

Overview

Meta offers users a total augmented reality (AR) experience:

- See, create, and interact with virtual objects and apps inserted in the real environment

- Display with wearable glasses

- Control with hand gestures

Meta's goal is to lead the next evolution of personal computing through augmented reality, replacing desktops, laptops, tablets, and smartphones with a more natural-to-use system set entirely in a pair of glasses.

Company description As recorded 2026-11-08
Hardware & IoTHardware deviceConsumersConsumerHardware sales

Founders & team

Ben Sand

Founder/Co-CEO

Building the future of Cloud, starting with AI. (Strong Compute, W22) Co-Founder of Meta, Y Combinator S13.

LinkedIn
Founder profile As recorded 2026-09-15

Raymond Lo

Founder/CTO

I was the CTO and cofounder of Meta (2013 summer). We raised over $73M by Series B and we shipped two products. I received my PhD in ECE in Toronto, and had been focusing on wearable and CV researches for the last 10 years. Recently, I joined Intel as the Evangelist for the the AI product OpenVINO.

LinkedIn
Founder profile As recorded 2026-09-15
11team members reported
Source-reported As recorded 2026-09-15

News & product activity

Sources & observations

Y Combinator

Profile depthverified profile
Website observationwebsite unreachable
Last website check2026-11-11
Location · source statedSan Francisco, CA, USA; San Mateo, CA, USA
Pricing evidenceNo pricing page confirmed
Maturity: Not assessed · 3 of 6 areas documented

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