"I got to wear the new Meta Ray-Ban Display glasses at Meta Connect 2025 on Wednesday. And while they are a long way from replacing your smartphone, they are good enough to make it clear that smart glasses are a lot better when they include a heads-up display. From what I experienced on Wednesday, we're definitely taking a step toward a world where we spend less time with our heads buried in our smartphones."
"In the Meta Connect keynote on Wednesday evening at the company's headquarters, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said we've lost a little something as a society with the proliferation of smartphones. Meta's hope is that smart glasses can help restore some of what we've lost by allowing people to stay in the moment more often. Meta is attempting to do that by releasing its next-generation glasses with a bright, full-color display and a smart wristband that reads subtle gestures from your hand"
"Zuckerberg was clearly more giddy about the launch of the Meta Ray-Ban Display glasses than anything else announced at Meta Connect 2025. "We've been working on glasses for over 10 years at Meta, and this is one of those special moments," Zuckerberg said. "I'm really proud of this, and I'm really proud of our team for achieving this." The glasses will retail for $799, which includes both the glasses and the wristband."
Meta's Ray-Ban Display glasses combine a bright full-color heads-up display with a smart wristband that reads subtle hand gestures to enable new interactions not possible with glasses alone. The hardware aims to reduce smartphone attention by letting users access information while staying present in the moment. The glasses retail for $799 and include the wristband, come in shiny black or transparent light brown with transition lenses, and support prescriptions from +4.00 to -4.00. Buyers must be fitted in-store for the wristband. The glasses provide about six hours of mixed-use battery life.
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