Meta Ray-Ban Display is now being sold in select physical US stores, though for most stores you'll need to secure a demo to purchase.
Announced at Connect 2025 two weeks ago, Meta's first smart glasses with an in-lens display are available to purchase in select Best Buy, LensCrafters, Sunglass Hut, and Ray-Ban stores, as well as the Meta Lab.
To purchase the glasses, you'll need to book an in-person fitting. However, appointments are currently booked out until late October for many locations, and even November or December for some.
During the fitting, the staff will measure your wrist to figure out which of the three Meta Neural Band sizes best suits your wrist.
Meta plans to add more stores to expand the availability of appointments. "We’re adding more stores to meet the demand, with new availability opening every day", the company says.
Meta says it will eventually sell the product online too. But for now, you'll need to go to a physical store.
Meta Ray-Ban Display comes in two colors, a glossy Black and a matte Sand, and two sizes, Standard and Large. All colors and sizes come with Transitions lenses, which get darker in response to light, making them suitable for both indoor and outdoor use.
Prescriptions from -4 to +4 are supported. If you're outside of that range, you're out of luck.
Meta says the glasses will also come to the UK, Canada, France, and Italy in early 2026.
What Is Meta Ray-Ban Display?
Priced at $800, Meta Ray-Ban Display does everything the regular Ray-Ban Meta glasses do, and also has a small fixed HUD (heads-up display) in the right lens, with an interface that you interact with using finger gestures detected by the included Meta Neural Band.
Meta Neural Band works by sensing the activation of the muscles in your wrist which drive your finger movements, a technique called surface electromyography (sEMG). The wristband includes haptic feedback, has an IPX7 water resistance rating, and Meta claims it should get around 18 hours of battery life.
Meta Ray-Ban Display's monocular HUD has a field of view of around 20 degrees, brightness of up to 5000 nits, and resolution of 600×600, providing 42 pixels per degree, which is higher than Apple Vision Pro. The display has just 2% light leakage, meaning other people nearby essentially won't be able to see it.
Here's what you can use the display for:
- Meta AI with Visuals, including step-by-step directions.
- Messaging & Video Calling via WhatsApp, Messenger, Instagram, as well as notifications for phone messages.
- Preview & Zoom for capturing photos and videos with the built-in camera.
- Pedestrian Navigation via a minimap in 28 cities.
- Live Captions & Translation for the person you're looking at.
- Music Playback, including the ability to seek and skip tracks.
The monocular HUD of Meta Ray-Ban Display.
Meta Ray-Ban Display glasses weigh 69 grams, compared to 52 grams for the regular Ray-Ban Meta glasses, and 45 grams for their non-smart equivalents. They're also noticeably bulkier, with thicker frames and temples. But this is the tradeoff of adding a display.
The company claims that the glasses should get around six hours of battery life in normal use, but we'll need to get our hands on them for a review to verify that in the real world.
In a software update set for December, Meta says Meta Neural Band will even let you enter text by swiping the letters with your index finger on a physical surface.
David Heaney
We went hands-on with Meta Ray-Ban Display and Meta Neural Band at Connect 2025. We found the glasses to be very much a first-generation device, with notable flaws, while the wristband works so well it feels like magic. You can read our full impressions here.
UPDATE: A few hours after the publication of this article, Meta updated its guidance to remove the statement that a demo is not strictly required to purchase Meta Ray-Ban Display.
