Meta has just unveiled the first Ray-Bans with a built-in screen for augmented reality (AR), along with two other new AI smart glasses. The Meta Ray-Ban Display is the brand’s first smart glasses with a heads-up display since Google Glass. Their classic Wayfarer-style design keeps them looking like regular glasses while still including a camera, microphone, and speakers.
The right lens has a small, bright, and clear display that appears just below your eye line. It can show text, images, live video calls, and more. The display only appears when you interact with the glasses, so no one can see it from the outside. An LED lets others know when the camera is on.
Meta AI Ray-Ban smart glasses with AR: Features
Like the popular Ray-Ban Meta AI shades, the new glasses feature a touch panel on the arms, and you can interact with them using voice control. They also come with a water-resistant bracelet that senses electrical impulses in your forearm, letting you control the phone-like interface in the lens with hand gestures.
The Neural Band fits like a screenless smartwatch and can detect taps, swipes, pinches, rotations, and other familiar gestures, including a virtual d-pad for the thumb. Later this year, it will even let you write using your finger.
The glasses work with a Bluetooth connection to an Android or iPhone and support messaging and video calls through Meta’s apps, including WhatsApp, Messenger, and Instagram. They can show live captions or translate conversations, provide turn-by-turn walking directions, control music playback, and even serve as a viewfinder when taking photos before sharing.
Meta’s AI chatbot can provide picture and text answers to your questions, from step-by-step recipes to details about paintings, landmarks, or other real-world information using the camera.
The glasses last up to six hours with mixed use and charge in a collapsible case that gives up to 30 hours of battery life.
Meta AI Ray-Ban smart glasses with AR: Price
The Meta Ray-Ban Display will be available in the US starting September 30 for $799, and will launch in the UK, France, Italy, and Canada in early 2026.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced the glasses at the Meta Connect event on Wednesday.
“Glasses are the only form factor where you can let AI see what you see, hear what you hear,” and eventually generate what you want to generate, such as images or video, Zuckerberg said at the tech giant’s headquarters in Menlo Park, California.
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