Meta Ray-Ban Display glasses offer an AR display for $799

The rumors were true. Meta’s first pair of AR glasses with a built-in screen is the Meta Ray-Ban Display. They’ll cost $799 and will come to a limited number of brick-and-mortar stores in the United States on September 30. Those stores include Best Buy, LensCrafters, Ray-Ban and Verizon, and availability will expand to Canada, France, Italy and the United Kingdom in early 2026.

The glasses have a camera, audio functionality, and a translucent heads-up display that shows information including text chats, reminders, apps and video calls. Users are able to use gestures to interact with the HUD, including small actions like swiping your fingers to type out a chat reply. Each pair requires and comes with a dedicated EMG wristband, the Meta Neural Band, which enables these gestures.

At least, that’s what Meta promises. The glasses failed to receive a phone call in a live demo during their announcement at the Connect 2025 conference, but they did perform other actions just fine. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg opened Spotify and played a song, took and viewed photos, and successfully demonstrated a real-time subtitle feature that looks legitimately useful.

Connect 2025 kicked off with Zuckerberg streaming his POV from a pair of Ray-Ban Displays, including a HUD on the right side showing Spotify, calendar reminders, text chats and incoming images with options to respond by dictating a message, dropping an emoji or selecting a typed phrase.

The display is “extremely high resolution,” according to Zuckerberg.

The Meta Ray-Ban Display glasses join a lineup of smart spectacles revealed at Connect 2025, including the second generation of the Ray-Ban Meta glasses (which also hilariously failed during a live demo of its AI assistant capabilities), and the sporty Oakley Meta Vanguard.

The Meta Ray-Ban Displays will be available in the next couple of weeks, Zuckerberg said. It is water-resistant. 

A leak earlier this week spoiled the surprise, capping off a year of rumors around Meta’s HUD-based efforts.

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