Jul 8, 2025MW-0033Never settled
XR Research Institute: next Ray-Ban Meta to split in two
XR Research Institute published renders showing Aperol as a sunglasses design and Bellini as everyday prescription eyewear.
A group calling itself XR Research Institute published renders of Meta's next Ray-Ban glasses, showing one model, codenamed Aperol, as a sunglasses design and a second, Bellini, as everyday prescription eyewear. The codenames matched an earlier report.
How to read this record
- What was reportedXR Research Institute published renders showing Aperol as a sunglasses design and Bellini as everyday prescription eyewear.
- Who said it, and whenXR Research Institute reported it on Jul 8, 2025 in UploadVR.
- What happened, and whenWe have not confirmed when Ray-Ban Meta (Gen 3) was announced.
- The verdict, and whyNever settledThe company has announced the product and nobody ever confirmed or denied this.Why: Meta does not use codenames, so which Gen 3 design was Aperol and which was Bellini cannot be checked. What the company published
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- Right
- It turned out the way this report said.
- Partly right
- Some of this was right and some of it was not.
- Wrong
- It did not turn out this way.
- Moving target
- This was right about the plan at the time. The company then changed it.
- Never settled
- The company has announced the product and nobody ever confirmed or denied this.
- Not comparable
- This measured a different thing from the number the company published, so the two cannot be compared.
- No outcome yet
- Nothing has happened yet that would prove this right or wrong.
- Not checked yet
- The company has answered this. We have not finished checking this one.
- Checked
- Checked means the company has since given an answer and we compared it with what was reported. Details still waiting on an answer, details nothing can settle, details where the plan itself changed, and details we have not finished reviewing are all counted separately and are not part of that number.
- Moving target
- A moving target is a report that described the plan accurately at the time, on a product the company then changed. We count these on their own: it would flatter a reporter to call them right, and it would blame a reporter for a decision that was not theirs to call them wrong.
- Reported by
- XR Research Institute
- We read it in
- UploadVR
- Product
- Ray-Ban Meta (Gen 3) · reported as “Ray-Ban Meta (Aperol and Bellini)”