Meta unveils Display smart glasses, Neural Band at Connect 2025

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Meta Ray-Ban Display smart glasses with an in-lens display and the Meta Neural Band were announced at the Meta Connect 2025 event. Alongside, the company also unveiled the Ray-Ban Meta (Gen 2) smart glasses.

The Meta Ray-Ban Display glasses feature a 600 × 600-pixel full-colour display embedded in the right lens with a 20-degree field of view, and up to 5000 nits of brightness. For now, the display can show text messages and video calls via WhatsApp and Messenger, provide turn-by-turn navigation, function as a camera viewfinder, display live captions and real-time translations, and show what you're listening to on Spotify. It can also display responses from Meta AI to your queries.

Supporting the new Ray-Ban Display glasses is the Meta Neural Band, an sEMG wristband that enables gesture-based control. It comes with an IPX7 rating and is said to deliver up to 18 hours of battery life.

The smart glasses feature a 12MP ultra-wide camera that can record video at 3K resolution (30fps) and offer 3x digital zoom. Meta has included two open-ear speakers and six microphones on the glasses. As for battery life, the glasses are claimed to last up to 6 hours with mixed usage, with the charging case offering up to 24 hours of usage.

The Ray-Ban Display smart glasses offer 32GB of internal storage, 2GB of RAM, Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth 5.3, and are also prescription-ready with an Rx range between -4.00 to +4.00 total power. The smart glasses weigh 69g and are IPX4 rated.

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