DBT Bureau
Pune, 18 Sep 2025
Mark Zuckerberg unveiled the next evolution in AI glasses: 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 check messages, preview photos, see translations, get help from Meta AI, and more — 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 breakthrough 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. The display is placed off to the side, so it doesn’t obstruct your view. And it isn’t on all the time — 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.
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 and comfortable.
Each pair comes with Meta Neural Band, an EMG wristband that translates the signals created by your muscle activity into commands for your glasses — letting you control your experience intuitively using just 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.
EMG: Turning Subtle Movements Into Digital Commands
Every new computing platform comes with new ways to interact, and Meta is really excited to introduce Meta Neural Band. 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.
Four years ago, Meta shared a look into its work on wrist-based wearables leveraging EMG (electromyography) technology. Meta Neural Band is the product of years of surface electromyography (EMG) research with nearly 200,000 research participants. This means the 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. From an accessibility perspective, muscle signals at the wrist can provide control signals for people who can’t produce large movements (due to a spinal cord injury, stroke or another disabling event), experience tremors, or have fewer than five fingers on their hand.
The amount of signals the band can detect is incredible — it has the fidelity to measure movement even before it’s visually perceptible.
Meta 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. And it’s made with Vectran, the same material used on the crash pads of the Mars Rover to ensure a smooth landing, so it’s strong as steel when pulled, yet soft enough to bend easily.
See What AI Glasses and EMG Can Do Together
With the addition of a display and neural band, Meta has taken the features you already know and love on Ray-Ban Meta glasses to the next level:
- 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 and family 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. Meta will 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 together and rotate your wrist to turn the volume, just like you’re dialing up a speaker IRL.
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. Meta Ray-Ban Display will hit 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. Meta is starting with select retailers and regions to make sure customers get the glasses and band that’s perfect for them, and will expand buying options over time.
Meta Ray-Ban Display and the accompanying Meta Neural Band come in two colors: Black and Sand. The glasses feature Transitions® lenses, so you can wear them inside and outside, day and night, with up to six hours of mixed-use battery life and up to 30 hours of total battery life thanks to the portable (and collapsible) charging case. And Meta Neural Band comes in three sizes so you can find the perfect fit.
