Sandisk says it has Meta's exclusive VR Glasses storage deal, but names no capacity or price
Sandisk says it will be the exclusive provider of flash storage for Meta VR Glasses when they go on sale in spring 2027, and that sentence is close to the entire announcement. Its October 14 press release names two product categories, microSD Express memory cards and USB-C flash drives, and gives no model names, no capacities and no prices.
Meta's own close-up of the VR Glasses, published with its September 23 announcement. Image: Meta
The glasses are still two seasons away. Meta put them at $1,299.99 in the US at Connect on September 23, with a display unit tethered to a pocket puck that, Meta’s own announcement says, “handles compute, battery, and storage”.
Meta says the glasses weigh about 100 grams, with “no straps or heavy hardware on your face”, which leaves the compute, the battery and the storage in the puck on the end of an optical tether. Spring 2027 is Meta’s own window rather than a date, and Sandisk has pinned its launch to it without naming one of its own.
Sandisk's existing USB-C flash drive. The drives and cards built for the glasses have not been named, priced or given a capacity. Image: Sandisk
Every word of the deal comes from Sandisk
“We are thrilled to be the exclusive storage provider to help Meta power the future of virtual reality,” says Susan Park, vice president of product management for consumer products at Sandisk. The release says the products are designed in collaboration with Meta, tested and certified for the glasses, part of the official Made for Meta ecosystem, and meant for “growing libraries of games, apps, and VR content”.
Meta has published nothing about the arrangement, so the exclusivity is Sandisk’s account of its own deal. It is a commercial arrangement rather than a hardware lock, too: nothing in the release says a card from another brand will fail to work.
Meta's image of the glasses being fitted with a prescription insert. Image: Meta
Nothing in the deal covers your Quest
Sandisk’s release does not mention Quest anywhere, and covers Meta VR Glasses and nothing else. If you own a Quest 3, no certified card or drive has been named for it.
There is no capacity figure in Meta’s announcement either. It says only that the puck handles storage, without giving a number, so any size attached to the cards, or to the glasses, comes from outside both companies.
What Meta does give is a battery figure for the puck: up to three hours of continuous high-resolution media playback, and support for 45W fast charging. Where a microSD Express card would sit on the hardware is not stated.
Meta's image of 3D film playback on the glasses, which the puck's three hours of media playback has to cover. Image: Meta
Made for Meta is not a new label
Made for Meta is Meta’s existing accessory certification rather than something built for this deal, and Sandisk is joining a programme that PowerA’s Quest 3 accessories joined in October 2024. Sandisk says its storage products will be sold in markets where Meta VR Glasses are available, which is as much geography as either company has offered.
The capacities, the prices and the names of the cards are all spring 2027 questions.
