Missed Out On Meta Ray-ban Display? Verizon Is Selling The Smart Glasses Now, But Act Fast

Apair of Meta Ray-Ban Display glasses and Neural Band successful nan Sand color.

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ZDNET's cardinal takeaways

• Verizon will commencement trading Meta Ray-Ban Display glasses today.
• You tin book a preservation astatine a section bearer store, truthful agelong arsenic they person inventory.
• The Ray-Ban Display glasses characteristic a waveguide for mixed reality experiences.

Since launching successful September, Meta's Ray-Ban Display smart glasses proceed to beryllium a basking commodity. Within nan first hours of unfastened sales, demo reservations -- which are required to acquisition nan wearable -- were being pushed to a period aliases 2 later. To assistance pinch Meta's efforts, Verizon will beryllium trading Ray-Ban Displays crossed its nationwide stores starting today.

Also: I tried nan Meta Ray-Ban Display glasses (including this unreleased feature), and I'm astir sold

The $800 smart glasses are Meta's first market-ready wearables pinch a built-in show and neural wristband. The large trading constituent is nan expertise to overlay adjuvant discourse and UI arsenic nan personification pinches and swipes their fingers to navigate; deliberation responding to a matter connection without needing to propulsion retired your phone, aliases visualizing pathways arsenic you're exploring a city.

The Ray-Ban Display besides has nan aforesaid 12-megapixel ultrawide sensor arsenic nan 1 connected nan modular Meta Ray-Bans, allowing it to seizure photos and videos from oculus level.

What's nan woody pinch Verizon?

Currently, Verizon has nan Ray-Ban Display listed astatine $799, nan aforesaid value that you'll find them if purchased straight from Meta, which is great. Perusing nan carrier's landing page, location don't look to beryllium immoderate prerequisites aliases committedness plans tied to nan product, truthful you tin deliberation of it for illustration buying from immoderate different retailer.

Verizon

Like Meta, you'll person to schedule a demo to acquisition nan smart glasses. In fact, you're redirected to Meta's preservation readiness page erstwhile doing so. From there, typing successful your zip codification will populate each your adjacent Verizon stores pinch unfastened clip slots. You'll want to book fast; astatine nan clip of writing, my section bearer shop is already booked until mid-November.

Also: Watch out, Meta: Samsung conscionable confirmed its smart glasses plans (with immoderate spicy hints)

This isn't nan first clip Verizon has served arsenic a transmission partner for Meta smart glasses -- it did nan aforesaid erstwhile nan first Ray-Ban models came retired years ago. So I wouldn't beryllium excessively hesitant astir buying from nan carrier. 

I'm conscionable gladsome to spot different opportunity unfastened up to folks who missed retired connected nan first activity of Ray-Ban Display reservations. Hopefully, you unafraid a spot this clip -- earlier it's excessively late.