Meta Unveils New Smart Glasses With A Display And Wristband Controller

Meta connected Wednesday unveiled a caller brace of Ray-Ban branded smart glasses pinch a built-in show for apps, alerts, and directions connected nan correct lens. The smart glasses are controlled by a wristband that picks up connected subtle manus gestures, called Meta Neural Band, nan aforesaid 1 it unveiled astatine past year’s Connect arsenic portion of its Orion demo.

CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced nan caller product, called Ray-Ban Meta Display, onstage astatine nan company’s yearly developer conference, Meta Connect 2025. Unlike Orion, Zuckerberg says this is simply a merchandise that group tin bargain successful a mates of weeks, and they’ll costs $800.

This is Meta’s latest effort to vessel a brace of user smart glasses that tin grip galore of nan tasks users traditionally do connected a smartphone. For years, Meta has been forced to scope users done its competitors’ devices, namely those sold by Google and Apple. While Meta has invested billions successful virtual reality headsets, AI-powered smart glasses now look for illustration nan astir promising measurement for nan institution to link pinch users connected its ain hardware.

With nan Ray-Ban Meta Display, Meta intends to build disconnected nan occurrence of its original Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses, which nan institution has sold millions of pairs of pinch its eyewear partner, EssilorLuxottica. Much for illustration Ray-Ban Meta, nan Ray-Ban Meta Display comes equipped pinch an on-board AI assistant, arsenic good arsenic cameras, speakers, and microphones. The glasses fto users link to nan unreality to entree nan net and societal media apps.

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Meta says nan show enables users to do overmuch much pinch their smart glasses. Users are tin of displaying Meta apps for illustration Instagram, WhatsApp, and Facebook. Users tin besides position directions and spot unrecorded translations successful nan smart glasses’ display.

The Neural Band that ships alongside nan instrumentality looks akin to a Fitbit, but without a screen, and allows users to navigate apps pinch mini manus movements. Zuckerberg said onstage that nan Meta Neural Band has 18 hours of artillery life and is h2o resistant.

The instrumentality uses electromyography (EMG) to prime up connected signals sent betwixt your encephalon and your manus erstwhile performing a gesture. Meta is betting this interface will beryllium a caller measurement users tin power their devices.

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Earlier this week, a video leaked of Meta’s latest smart glasses. CNBC and Bloomberg antecedently reported that nan smart glasses, which were internally codenamed Hypernova, would beryllium unveiled astatine this year’s Connect conference.

It’s worthy noting that Ray-Ban Meta Display are acold little tin than nan Orion smart glasses Meta showed disconnected astatine Connect 2024. That instrumentality featured augmented reality lenses and oculus tracking, while this brace uses a overmuch simpler display. It whitethorn beryllium years earlier Meta ever sells Orion.

Still, Meta is hoping it tin triumph nan smart glasses marketplace by being first to marketplace pinch a existent product. However, it seems apt that Google and Apple will motorboat smart glasses of their ain successful nan years to come. Those devices will undoubtedly beryllium capable to merge into Google and Apple’s respective operating systems, giving them a important limb up complete Meta.