How To Buy (and Try) The Meta Ray-ban Display Glasses

Meta's Ray-Ban Display glasses are now connected sale, but really buying a brace will beryllium a spot much analyzable than ordering a brace of Meta's different smart glasses. That's because Meta isn't allowing online income of its show glasses. Instead, they are only disposable by preservation astatine a fistful of beingness unit stores.

For now, nan $799 Meta Ray-Ban Display glasses are disposable astatine prime Ray-Ban, Sunglass Hut, LensCrafters and Best Buy locations successful nan United States. Verizon will besides commencement carrying nan glasses sometime "soon," according to Meta. The institution will besides let group to demo and bargain a brace astatine its ain Meta Lab locations. These see nan Burlingame, California abstraction that opened arsenic nan "Meta Store" in 2022, arsenic good arsenic pop-ups successful Las Vegas, Los Angeles and New York opening successful nan coming weeks. 

In bid to really get your hands connected a pair, though, you'll request to book an assignment for a demo astatine 1 of these stores done Meta's website. According to Meta, this is "to make judge customers get nan glasses and set that’s cleanable for them." (In my ain acquisition pinch some nan Meta Ray-Ban Display glasses and nan Orion prototype, nan neural wristband requires a snug fresh to usability properly.) An assignment will besides springiness shoppers nan opportunity to bid medicine lenses for nan glasses. The glasses only support a medicine scope of -4.00 to +4.00, though, truthful they won't beryllium compatible pinch each prescriptions.

The institution precocious said it's seen "strong" request for demos and it looks for illustration astir locations are already booked retired for respective weeks, judging by Meta's scheduling website. It will besides beryllium difficult if you don't unrecorded adjacent a awesome city. For example, Sunglass Hut's website presently lists conscionable seven locations wherever demos will beryllium available. 

The bully news is that Meta does scheme to yet summation availability. The institution has said nan Meta Ray-Ban Display glasses will beryllium disposable successful Canada, France, Italy and nan UK opening successful "early 2026" and that it expects buying options will "expand" nan longer they're connected sale. 

Sales of nan glasses, which are Meta's first to incorporated a heads-up display, will beryllium intimately watched. At $799, nan glasses are importantly much costly than nan remainder of nan frames successful Meta's expanding lineup of "AI glasses." But, arsenic I wrote aft my caller demo astatine Meta Connect, nan show besides enables wearers to do overmuch much than what's presently imaginable pinch nan existing Ray-Ban aliases Oakley models.