Meta Ray Ban Display AR Glasses Announced at 799 Dollars The rumors were true. Meta has officially unveiled its first pair of augmented reality glasses with a built in screen, the Meta Ray Ban Display. The glasses are priced at 799 dollars and are scheduled to arrive in a limited number of physical stores in the United States on September 30. The initial retail partners include Best Buy, LensCrafters, Ray Ban stores, and Verizon. Availability is planned to expand to Canada, France, Italy, and the United Kingdom in early 2026. These new smart glasses integrate a camera, audio functionality, and a key new feature a translucent heads up display. This HUD allows the wearer to see and respond to text messages, interact with AI prompts, view directions, and handle video calls. Interaction with the display is managed through gestures, including small finger swipes to type out replies. However, this functionality requires a dedicated accessory. Each pair of glasses comes with the Meta Neural Band, an EMG wristband that enables these gesture based controls. The announcement at the Connect 2025 conference was not without a hiccup. During a live demonstration, the glasses failed to receive an incoming phone call. Despite this, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg successfully demonstrated several other features. He opened Spotify to play a song, took and viewed photos, and showcased a real time subtitle feature that appeared genuinely useful for conversations. According to Meta, the display supports a wide range of functions powered by Meta AI. This includes visual responses from the AI, messaging, video calling, photo preview and zoom, turn by turn pedestrian navigation, live captions and translations, and music playback control. Zuckerberg opened the conference by streaming his point of view from the glasses, showing the HUD on the right lens displaying his Spotify, calendar reminders, text chats, and incoming images with options to respond via voice dictation, emoji, or pre written phrases. The Meta Ray Ban Display glasses and the accompanying Neural Band wristband are available in two color options, black and sand, and in two sizes, standard and large. All models feature Transitions lenses that automatically adjust their tint based on lighting conditions. Zuckerberg emphasized that the display is extremely high resolution. It is a full color HUD that supports 42 pixels per degree of the field of view. For comparison, the Meta Quest 3S headset offers 20 pixels per degree. The glasses are reported to offer six hours of battery life under mixed use, with a total battery life of up to 30 hours. The separate Meta Neural Band wristband boasts an 18 hour battery life and carries an IPX7 water resistance rating. The Meta Ray Ban Display was not the only smart glasses product announced. The event also featured the second generation Ray Ban Meta glasses, which also experienced a demo failure with its AI assistant, and the sport focused Oakley Meta Vanguard glasses. The official reveal follows a leak earlier this week that showed a video of the glasses, confirming over a year of rumors surrounding Meta s plans to develop smart glasses with a built in display.
