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TL;DR: Meta has opened an early access program for a fresh batch of Muse features shown off at Connect 2026, and the headline addition is a digital avatar you can video call like a person. There’s also a Mac app so Muse can act on your computer directly, plus voice control routed through Meta’s AI glasses. You get in by asking Muse itself, which is a small detail that says a lot about how Meta wants this rollout to feel.
Muse is Meta’s personal AI agent, the one built to actually do things on your behalf rather than just answer questions. The new capabilities rolling into early access push it further in that direction. The avatar feature turns a text-based assistant into something you video call, which is a meaningfully different interaction model than typing into a chat window. Whether that lands as helpful or uncanny probably depends a lot on the person.
The Mac app is the more practically important addition. It lets Muse operate directly on your computer instead of staying confined to a phone or browser tab, which puts Meta in the same lane as OpenAI’s and Anthropic’s own computer-use agents. Rounding things out is deeper integration with Meta’s AI glasses, so you can talk to Muse by voice through hardware you’re already wearing rather than pulling out a phone.
Meta isn’t running this rollout like a typical staged beta. Instead of throttling access by waitlist position or random selection, the company is routing sign-ups through Muse itself.
“Your Muse can ask for you,” Meta said, describing the early access flow. Users simply tell the assistant they want in, and it relays the request.
That mechanic is not just a cute onboarding trick. It’s a filter. Getting into early access this way requires already being comfortable enough with Muse to ask it for things, which skews the rollout toward people who already use multiple AI apps and understand roughly what they’re signing up for. Meta gets its feedback from people who will actually stress-test the features, rather than from whoever happened to click a waitlist link fastest.
This launch also lands inside a busier week for Meta, coming right alongside Connect 2026 hardware news covering new AI glasses and mixed reality headsets. The strategic logic is straightforward: an assistant is more valuable when it can act across more surfaces, phone, computer, and now glasses, and Meta would rather you experience Muse as one continuous presence than as three separate apps.
The obvious comparison is to what OpenAI and Google are doing with their own assistants, both of which have been pushing multimodal, action-taking agents over the past year. Meta’s advantage, if it has one, is owning the hardware layer through Ray-Ban and Quest devices, something neither of those competitors can currently match.
Bottom Line: An avatar you video call and an assistant that lives on your Mac and in your glasses sounds like science fiction until you remember every major AI lab is racing toward exactly this. Meta’s edge is that it already sells the hardware Muse needs to feel omnipresent. Whether people actually want an assistant that omnipresent is still an open question.
