Facebook began development on a smartwatch codenamed Milan, but scrapped the project before its release. A more recent rumor now claims the watch is back in development. Likely to be called the Facebook smartwatch or Meta watch, the company confirmed that this “neural interface watch” will have a camera to accompany its upcoming smart glasses.
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In January 2022, a patent filed by Facebook with the World Intellectual Property Organization was approved. It describes a “detachable camera block for a wearable device.” You can read the patent via this PDF hosted by LetsGoDigital.
As the photos below show, Meta even went so far as to build the hardware itself, so it wasn’t just stuck in the patent phase. Plus, the idea of Facebook selling this kind of hardware isn’t new: they sold the HTC First phone, the Quest VR headset, and the Ray-Ban Stories smart glasses.
According to a 2022 report from Mark Gurman, Meta has "halted development of a dual-camera smartwatch and is instead working on other wrist-based devices," and that "the device is no longer on track for production." It was originally scheduled for release in spring 2023. Gurman also said that there may have been three generations of the Facebook smartwatch, each with a different release timeframe.
