Meta Unveils Ray-Ban Display: Smart Glasses With a Screen and Neural Wristband

Revealed at Meta Connect 2025, the Ray-Ban Display builds on the company’s earlier success in smart eyewear. The right lens now houses a discreet display that surfaces notifications, apps and real-time directions. But the breakthrough is the Neural Band, a wrist-worn device that reads electromyographic (EMG) signals from tiny finger movements and translates them into commands. With a subtle twitch, users can type text on any surface.

The Ray-Ban Display goes on sale September 30 at $799. Unlike last year’s Orion prototype, which was pitched as a forward-looking experiment, this is positioned as a finished consumer product, ready for mainstream adoption.

The glasses retain all the features of the previous generation—built-in cameras, speakers, microphones and an AI assistant connected to Meta’s cloud services. They can access Meta’s social networks, plot navigation routes and even translate text on the fly.

Still, it is the Neural Band that Meta sees as the defining feature. With 18 hours of battery life and full water resistance, it delivers a genuinely hands-free interface. The company believes this could become the new standard for device control, far beyond glasses alone.

The Ray-Ban Display does not yet match the ambition of the Orion project, which tested full AR lenses and eye-tracking, but Meta is prioritizing accessibility and scalability. The strategy is clear: push smart glasses into mass-market territory before rivals can set the pace.

And rivals are circling. Google and Apple are preparing their own smart glasses, tightly woven into their ecosystems. When those arrive, the question will be whether Meta can hold its ground—or if others will prove even better at reading the subtle signals from our fingertips.