Meta Ray-Ban Show glasses provide an AR show for $799

The rumors had been true. Meta’s first pair of AR glasses with a built-in display is the Meta Ray-Ban Show. They will price $799 and can come to a restricted variety of brick-and-mortar shops in the USA on September 30. These retailers embody Greatest Purchase, LensCrafters, Ray-Ban and Verizon, and availability will broaden to Canada, France, Italy and the UK in early 2026.

The Ray-Ban Shows have a digital camera, audio performance, and a translucent heads-up show that reveals and permits the wearer to answer textual content chats, AI prompts, instructions and video calls. You 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 allows these interactions.

Not less than, that is what Meta guarantees. The glasses didn’t obtain a cellphone name in a dwell 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 track, took and seen photographs, and efficiently demonstrated a real-time subtitle function that appears legitimately helpful. As outlined by Meta, the HUD helps Meta AI with visuals, messaging and video calling, previewing and zooming in on photographs, turn-by-turn pedestrian navigation, dwell captions and translations, and music playback.

Join 2025 kicked off with Zuckerberg streaming his POV from a pair of Ray-Ban Shows, together with a HUD on the best aspect exhibiting Spotify, calendar reminders, textual content chats and incoming photos with choices to reply by dictating a message, dropping an emoji or choosing a typed phrase. The glasses and wristband are available in two colours, black and sand, and two sizes, customary and huge. All pairs have Transitions lenses that robotically modify to gentle circumstances.

The glasses’ show is “extraordinarily excessive decision,” Zuckerberg was stoked to report. The HUD is full-color and helps 42 pixels per every diploma of the sector of view — examine that with the Meta Quest 3S, which has 20 pixels per diploma. The glasses boast “six hours of mixed-use battery life and as much as 30 hours of battery life whole,” whereas the Meta Neural Band has 18 hours of battery life and an IPX7 water ranking.

The Meta Ray-Ban Show glasses be 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 dwell demo of their AI assistant capabilities), and the sporty Oakley Meta Vanguard.

A leak earlier this week spoiled the Meta Ray-Ban Show shock, capping off a year of rumors round Meta’s HUD-based efforts.