Meta Ray-Ban Show glasses supply 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’re going to value $799 and can come to a restricted variety of brick-and-mortar shops in america on September 30. These retailers embody Greatest Purchase, LensCrafters, Ray-Ban and Verizon, and availability will increase to Canada, France, Italy and the UK in early 2026.

The Ray-Ban Shows have a digicam, audio performance, and a translucent heads-up show that exhibits and permits the wearer to reply to textual content chats, AI prompts, apps 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 kind out a chat reply. Every pair requires and comes with a devoted EMG wristband, the Meta Neural Band, which allows these interactions.

At the very least, that is what Meta guarantees. The glasses didn’t obtain a telephone name in a dwell demo throughout their announcement on the Connect 2025 convention, however they did carry out different actions simply tremendous. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg opened Spotify and performed a music, took and seen 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 correct aspect exhibiting Spotify, calendar reminders, textual content chats and incoming photographs with choices to reply by dictating a message, dropping an emoji or deciding on a typed phrase. The glasses and wristband are available two colours, black and sand, and two sizes, normal and enormous. All pairs have Transitions lenses that routinely alter to gentle situations.

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 sphere 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 score.

The Meta Ray-Ban Show glasses be part of a lineup of sensible 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.