Meta unveils Ray-Ban Display AI glasses
The $799 glasses paired an in-lens display with a wristband that reads muscle signals for silent, gesture-based control, and reached US retail stores at the end of the month.
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Meta unveiled the Ray-Ban Display, a pair of smart glasses with a colour, in-lens display positioned to the side of the wearer’s vision, paired with the Meta Neural Band — a wristband that reads electrical signals from forearm muscles to let the wearer scroll, click and, Meta said, eventually write messages using small finger movements without touching the glasses. The set launched at $799, going on sale in select US retailers including Best Buy, LensCrafters and Ray-Ban stores from the end of September, with expansion to Canada, France, Italy and the UK planned for early 2026.
The display let users check messages, preview photos, view live captions and translations, get walking directions and receive Meta AI responses as visual step-by-step guidance rather than audio alone, navigable by swiping the wristband. Meta said the display reached brightness of up to 5,000 nits, intended to remain legible outdoors, and gave the Neural Band up to 18 hours of battery life.
The product extended Meta’s existing Ray-Ban Meta smart-glasses line, released alongside a second-generation version of that audio-only model at the same event, into a display-equipped tier aimed at making Meta AI accessible through glance-and-gesture interaction rather than voice commands or a phone screen — a bet that wearable AI assistants needed a visual surface to become a mainstream product rather than a niche one.