The rumors had been true. Meta’s first pair of AR glasses with a built-in display screen is the Meta Ray-Ban Show. They will price $799 and can come to a restricted variety of brick-and-mortar shops in the US on September 30. These shops embrace Greatest Purchase, LensCrafters, Ray-Ban and Verizon, and availability will broaden to Canada, France, Italy and the UK in early 2026.
The glasses have a digicam, audio performance, and a translucent heads-up show that exhibits info together with textual content chats, reminders, apps and video calls. Customers are in a position to make use of gestures to work together with the HUD, together with small actions like swiping your fingers to sort out a chat reply. Every pair requires and comes with a devoted EMG wristband, the Meta Neural Band, which permits these gestures.
A minimum of, that is what Meta guarantees. The glasses didn’t obtain a cellphone name in a stay demo throughout their announcement on the Connect 2025 convention, however they did carry out different actions simply high quality. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg opened Spotify and performed a music, took and considered images, and efficiently demonstrated a real-time subtitle characteristic that appears legitimately helpful.
Join 2025 kicked off with Zuckerberg streaming his POV from a pair of Ray-Ban Shows, together with a HUD on the suitable facet displaying Spotify, calendar reminders, textual content chats and incoming photographs with choices to reply by dictating a message, dropping an emoji or choosing a typed phrase.
The show is “extraordinarily excessive decision,” in line with Zuckerberg.
The Meta Ray-Ban Show glasses be a part of a lineup of good spectacles revealed at Join 2025, together with the second generation of the Ray-Ban Meta glasses (which additionally hilariously failed throughout a stay demo of its AI assistant capabilities), and the sporty Oakley Meta Vanguard.
The Meta Ray-Ban Shows might be out there within the subsequent couple of weeks, Zuckerberg stated. It’s waterproof.
A leak earlier this week spoiled the shock, capping off a year of rumors round Meta’s HUD-based efforts.