The rumour mill has been going around about Meta’s next big take on wearable augmented reality glasses, with an authentic leak spilling the beans a couple of days ago. The wait is finally over as the Annual Meta Connect event in Menlo Park saw Mark Zuckerberg talk long and hard about the new smart glasses. Called the Meta Ray-Ban Display spectacles, the wearable is a perfect balance of flair and practical use. Meta also announced the Neural Band, which will be included with the $799 wearable.
Alongside this, the event saw the reveal of sports-focused Oakley Vanguard glasses and the new Ray-Ban Meta Gen 2 with improved hardware. The latter comes with a better camera module, bumped up battery life of 8 hours, and a 12MP ultra-wide camera with 3K video shooting capability. The updated version of Ray-Ban Meta Gen 2 is priced at $379-$459.
Designer: Meta, Ray-Ban, Oakley
Meta Ray-Ban Display
The newly announced smart glasses have a full-color monocular display in the right eye to bring a very intriguing interface as a heads-up display. This takes it beyond the audio and chat interface of the previous generations, employing the onboard AI engine to the maximum. This display, having a 120-degree field of view, comes with a resolution of 600×600 at 42 pixels per degree. Meta has bumped up the refresh rate for media content to 90Hz and content scrolling to 30Hz. The brightness on the Meta Ray-Ban Display remains the same as the earlier version, i.e., ranging from 30 to 5,000 nits. The glasses have an embedded 12MP camera that has 3x zoom levels, which comes in handy for previewing shots or instantly taking close-up videos.
This nano display comes with UV detection to automatically turn on, and has just 2 percent light leakage. That means others in your vicinity won’t be able to eavesdrop on what’s going on your glass interface. You can have a quick glance at your text messages, navigation directions, or photos while walking in the streets as the display creates a non-intrusive dashboard in your peripheral vision. Most importantly, the smart glasses weighing 69 grams are just like any regular spectacles, but they have 30 hours of standby battery life and around 6 hours on mixed use on a busy day. These are the most practical smart glasses that you can invest in without second thoughts, and they’ll be available in two colors – Black and Sand – starting September 30 in the US. Availability in other markets, including the UK, Canada, France, and Italy, is slated for early 2026.
Neural Band and Oakley Meta Vanguard
Meta has developed the Neural Band as an accessory of the Meta Ray-Ban Display to unify the input and make things ultra smooth in operation. The IPX7 water-resistant wristband detects gestures, swipes, taps, pinches, or rotations to trigger a variety of inputs on the glasses or to simply navigate the display interface. The smart wearable makes use of electrical impulses in the forearms to detect the desired input by the wearer. Not only this, but later in the year, the band will get the ability to detect handwritten notes or messages. Neural band has a battery life of 18 hours and comes in complementing Shiny Black or Shiny Sand colorways.
Mark also announced the Oakley Meta Vanguard glasses, featuring a wrap-around design, targeted at people with an active lifestyle. The IP67-rated glasses boast a centrally mounted 12MP ultrawide camera with a 122-degree FOV, 3K video recording capability, a five-mic array for clearer conversations, nine hours of battery life, and 6dB speakers in each arm to cancel out distracting ambient noises. These are the logical predecessors of the Oakley Meta HSTN smart frames, bringing ample improvements to justify the $499 price tag. They can be pre-ordered immediately, with shipping scheduled for October 21.
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