Meta Ray-Ban Display: Breakthrough AI Glasses Available Now
The wait is over. Meta Ray-Ban Display hits shelves in the US today! Priced at $799 USD, which includes the Meta Neural Band, these breakthrough AI glasses let you interact with digital content while staying fully present in the physical world.
Demand for in-person demos of Meta Ray-Ban Display is strong, with appointments in most locations booked out through mid-October. We’re adding more stores to meet the demand, with new availability opening every day. If you’re unable to book a demo, you can still visit a store listed in our demo finder to learn more about the product.
Meta Ray-Ban Display is available at limited brick-and-mortar retailers in the US, including at select Best Buy, LensCrafters, Sunglass Hut, Ray-Ban Stores, and Meta Lab. Availability in select Verizon stores will follow soon after.
Schedule a demo near you and experience the next paradigm shift in wearable tech.
Today at Connect, Mark Zuckerberg debuted the next exciting evolution of AI glasses: the all-new Meta Ray-Ban Display and Meta Neural Band.
Meta Ray-Ban Display glasses are designed to help you look up and stay present. With a quick glance at the in-lens display, you can accomplish everyday tasks—like checking messages, previewing photos, and collaborating with visual Meta AI prompts — all without needing to pull out your phone. It’s technology that keeps you tuned in to the world around you, not distracted from it.
This new category of AI glasses comes with a full-color, high-resolution display that’s there when you want it — and gone when you don’t. And it’s the first product that takes microphones, speakers, cameras, and a full-color display backed with compute and AI — and puts it all together in a single device that’s stylish, comfortable, and easy to wear.
Each pair comes with Meta Neural Band, an EMG wristband that interprets the natural signals created by your muscle activity to navigate the features of your glasses — letting you control experiences intuitively using subtle hand movements, without having to touch your glasses or take out your phone. Meta Neural Band is so effortless, it makes interacting with your glasses feel like magic.
Pricing, Demos, & Details
Starting at $799 USD, which includes both the glasses and Meta Neural Band, Meta Ray-Ban Display will let you experience, learn about, and interact with the world in a totally new way. It hits shelves September 30 at limited brick-and-mortar retailers in the US, including Best Buy, LensCrafters, Sunglass Hut and Ray-Ban Stores. Availability in select Verizon stores will follow soon after. Expansion to Canada, France, Italy, and the UK is planned for early 2026. We’re starting with select retailers and regions to make sure customers get the glasses and band that’s perfect for them, and we’ll expand buying options over time.
Meta Ray-Ban Display and the accompanying Meta Neural Band come in two colors: Black and Sand. We know style options are important, so in addition to launching in two colors, we’re launching with two frame sizes: standard and large. All glasses feature Transitions® lenses, so you can wear them on-the-go, inside and outside, night and day, with up to six hours of mixed-use battery life and up to 30 hours of battery life total thanks to the portable (and collapsible!) charging case. And Meta Neural Band comes in three sizes so you can find the perfect fit.
Be one of the first to experience the next paradigm shift in wearable tech. Book an in-person demo to try them out, get fitted, and pick the right pair for you.
Style Meets Function
When we started building this product with EssilorLuxottica, our goal was simple: make them look and feel great. So we integrated a premium eyewear design, making the form factor just as bold as the technology inside.
Meta Ray-Ban Display has the iconic DNA of a Wayfarer silhouette, which we made taller and gave a more prominent square shape for a bold aesthetic. We slightly rounded off the edges, which improves comfort, elevates the aesthetics, and increases durability — and gave the front of the glasses a slight curve, which helps reduce glare while improving comfort and fit.
We designed the over-extension hinges with titanium to enhance wearability, minimize weight, and maximize strength.
We used ultra-narrow steelcan batteries — a first for this form factor — which allowed for thinner temple arms, while supporting extended battery life. We started this battery development with display glasses in mind, but like a lot of our work, it made its way into other products like Oakley Meta HSTN and Ray-Ban Meta (Gen 2) glasses, increasing battery life up to eight hours with typical use.
And we achieved all of this with an impressive weight of just 69 grams.
Display Deep Dive
Because everything needed to fit in a fashionable pair of glasses worthy of the Ray-Ban name, we rearchitected our entire display to fit the form factor. The monocular display features a highly custom light engine and geometric waveguide. It has great compute efficiency, sharp contrast, and high brightness, thanks to a custom module that was miniaturized to fit into a fashionable frame. This was key to achieving high resolution without having to increase the frame size.
We packed 42 pixels into each degree of the field of view to improve the display. Fun fact: The only wave guide device out there with > 42 pixels per degree (ppd) is a giant headset that isn’t sold commercially anymore.
The photochromatic lenses and our auto-brightness algorithms ensure visuals are crisp and colorful whether you’re indoors or outside. Of course, it’s important to feel comfortable wearing your display glasses around others. We balanced the brightness with the need for subtlety, so the private in-lens display only has 2% light leakage. And just like with Ray-Ban Meta glasses, the capture LED lets others know when you use your glasses to take photos and record videos for your gallery or streaming.
Designing Meta Ray-Ban Display involved a balance between lighting up the display with visuals and helping you stay connected to the people and things around you. The display is placed off to the side, so it doesn’t obstruct your view. And it isn’t on constantly — it’s designed for short interactions that you’re always in control of. This isn't about strapping a phone to your face. It's about helping you quickly accomplish some of your everyday tasks without breaking your flow.
EMG: The Science of Seamless Interaction
Every new computing platform comes with new ways to interact, and we’re really excited about our Meta Neural Band, which packs cutting-edge surface electromyography research into a stylish input device. It replaces the touchscreens, buttons, and dials of today’s technology with a sensor on your wrist, so you can silently scroll, click, and, in the near future, even write out messages using subtle finger movements.
The amount of signals the band can detect is incredible — it has the fidelity to measure movement even before it’s visually perceptible.
The key breakthrough was developing deep learning algorithms based on data from nearly 200,000 consenting research participants, so this wristband will work right out of the box for nearly anyone. That’s a huge technical feat because of the level of variance in people’s muscles. Think of the potential impact it could have for people with spinal cord injuries, limb differences, tremors, or other neuromotor conditions.
With thousands upon thousands of motor neurons that could theoretically be mapped to any gesture, EMG technology can go beyond glasses. It could be the best way to control any device.
All processing of raw EMG data happens on-device. Only events like a “click” are sent from the wristband to the glasses so a command can be executed. This on-device machine learning also enables high reliability for haptic feedback and time synchronization.
We built the Meta Neural band to be durable, lightweight, and comfortable for all-day wear with up to 18 hours of battery life and an IPX7 water rating. The band features electrodes coated with diamond-like carbon, which are then reinforced by Vectran — a woven mesh that’s as strong as steel when pulled, yet soft enough to bend easily. Vectran is the same material used on the crash pads of the Mars Rover to ensure a smooth landing, so yeah. Science!
Experiences in Meta Ray-Ban Display
Meta Ray-Ban Display takes everything you know and love about Ray-Ban Meta glasses and supercharges it to give you more context, more functionality, and more freedom than ever before. We’ve built the experiences in Meta Ray-Ban Display to boost your confidence and give you more clarity in everything you do and see through them.
We can now take the beloved features from Ray-Ban Meta to the next level, while adding new ones thanks to the addition of a hi-res display and neural band. Here’s a few of the experiences that make Meta Ray-Ban Display so special:
- Meta AI with Visuals: Meta AI on glasses can do so much more when it’s paired with visuals — now it can show you answers and step-by-step how-tos, rather than just reading something back to you. Move through steps easily with a quick swipe of your thumb side to side using the Meta Neural Band.
- Messaging & Video Calling: Staying connected while staying in the moment is so much easier when your glasses show you short texts, WhatsApp messages, or Reels your friends are sharing. With Meta Ray-Ban Display, you can privately view text and multimedia messages from WhatsApp, Messenger, Instagram, and your phone, hands-free with just a pinch. You can also take live video calls from WhatsApp and Messenger and show friends what you’re seeing through the glasses.
- Preview & Zoom: The real-time camera viewfinder and zoom functionality helps you get the perfect shot on the first try — and the display makes it easy to select and share your favorite photos and videos.
- Pedestrian Navigation: Get where you need to go, with phone-free, walking directions. Select your destination and get turn-by-turn walking directions with a visual map of the area shown on your glasses’ display. We’ll launch pedestrian navigation for select cities in beta and will continue to add more over time.
- Live Captions & Translation: Meta Ray-Ban Display breaks down barriers with its live captioning feature. When prompted, it can display captions for the speech that’s directed at you, or translate select languages for you in real-time — all while you stay present and engaged in the conversation.
- Music Playback: See what you’re listening to in real time with the music card shown on the glasses’ display. Swipe left and right with your thumb to navigate music, or pinch your fingers and rotate your wrist to turn the volume, just like you’re dialing up a speaker IRL.
Meta Ray-Ban Display also gives you a hands-free, intelligent music experience — combining rich on-lens visuals, voice confirmation, and discreet EMG gesture control. You’ve got access to Amazon Music, Apple Music (iOS only), Music Info, Shazam, and Spotify in English everywhere Meta AI glasses are supported.
Coming soon, you’ll be able to browse music content intuitively and play music that matches your view thanks to multimodal AI — so if you’re relaxing on the beach, looking out at the sunset over the ocean, you can ask Meta AI for a track or playlist that fits the scene and Spotify will help you find the best music for the moment. This will make it easier to explore, control, and personalize your listening experience anywhere. And you’ll be able to enjoy podcasts and audiobooks from Audible alongside live radio stations from iHeart, too.
Just like we’ve done with Ray-Ban Meta Glasses, we’ll continue to build new experiences alongside the community and deliver on more of what they want. And we’ve got an exciting slate of software updates landing in the coming months for Meta Ray-Ban Display — a dedicated Instagram Reels app, EMG handwriting, and more.
All in the Family
With today’s introduction of Meta Ray-Ban Display, our AI glasses now fall into three distinct categories:
- Camera AI glasses: We have the world’s best brands in eyewear with Ray-Ban and Oakley. And we’ll continue to expand to more styles and brands in the future, and deliver more AI-enabled features.
- Display AI glasses: Meta Ray-Ban Display opens up a new category, anchored on the value of a powerful, contextual display.
- Augmented reality glasses: AR glasses, like our Orion prototype, feature a large holographic display, high-bandwidth input, and digital experiences that augment the world around you.
And yes, for those keeping score at home: We’re continuing to make progress on a consumer version of our breakthrough Orion prototype that we showed at Connect last year. Stay tuned... 🤓
Future Forward
Today marks the start of the next chapter, not only for AI glasses, but for the future of wearable technology and its ability to connect us while expanding our interactions with the world. It’s time to look forward.
