Meta Ray-Ban Display Is Official & Includes Meta Neural Band For $800

Meta Ray-Ban Display glasses are official, priced at $800 with the Meta Neural Band included.

After months of rumors and a last-minute leak, Meta just officially announced its first smart glasses product with a display. To be clear, this is not full AR. It’s a small fixed HUD (heads-up display) on the right side, only visible to your right eye.

This monocular HUD can be used:

• To see the time and weather.
• To see Meta AI queries as you speak, and its responses as text as well as (or instead of?) audio.
• For on-foot navigation, showing a mini-map view of your path.
• To see your phone notifications, including the ability to respond to messages.
• To frame and preview the photos and videos you’re taking.

Meta Ray-Ban Display glasses weigh 69 grams, compared to 52 grams for the regular Ray-Ban Meta glasses (which got a Gen 2 upgrade today), and 40 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.

Like the regular Ray-Ban Meta glasses, you can command the Meta Ray-Ban Display glasses with Meta AI, and use the touchpad on the side for basic controls. But unlike any other smart glasses to date, they also come with Meta’s long-in-development sEMG wristband in the box, called 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). It enables precise finger tracking with very little power draw, and without the need to be in view of a camera.

The wristband is how you navigate the Meta Ray-Ban Display glasses interface. And it even lets you enter text by swiping the letters with your index finger on a physical surface. It also has haptic feedback to alert you of notifications.

At first, Meta Ray-Ban Display will be exclusively available at physical retailers in the US, including Best Buy, LensCrafters, Ray-Ban Stores, and Verizon, priced at $800 with Meta Neural Band in the box.

The glasses will come to Canada, France, Italy, and the UK in early 2026.

Meta says 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.