Meta AI on smart glasses: everything it can do in 2026, by device

Meta AI is the voice assistant built into every pair of Meta's current AI glasses: Ray-Ban Meta, Oakley Meta, the Meta Glasses line and Meta Ray-Ban Display. On most models you say "Hey Meta" or tap and hold the touchpad, then ask a question, take a photo, call or message someone, play music or ask about what's in front of you. Since April, Meta has been switching the assistant on Ray-Ban Meta and Oakley Meta glasses in the US and Canada to Muse Spark, the first model from Meta Superintelligence Labs.

This guide is based on Meta's help center, release notes and announcements. Features change often and vary by country, so we note where Meta limits them.

What Meta AI can do on glasses

Meta's main help page groups the everyday commands like this:

Calls and messages work with your phone's contacts and with WhatsApp, Messenger and Instagram, and during a call you can say "Hey Meta" and then "Mute" or "Hang up." Weather and other location questions need location access set to "always allow" for the Meta AI app.

Asking about what you see

The camera lets Meta AI answer questions about what you're looking at. When you ask about your surroundings, or say "Hey Meta, look and...", the glasses take a photo and send it to Meta's cloud, and Meta AI answers out loud, according to the help center. You can point at a phone number and say "call this number," ask about a monument, have a sign translated or get a summary of something you're reading. The request, photo and answer are saved in the Meta AI app under Chats.

For blind and low-vision users, a setting called detailed responses gives richer descriptions of a scene. Meta made it available during live AI sessions in February in the US and Canada, and at Connect in September it announced further upgrades shaped by that community's feedback.

Live AI

Live AI is a continuous version of the same idea. Say "Hey Meta, start live AI" and the camera and microphone stay on, so you can keep asking follow-ups without the wake word: the story behind a landmark, a substitute for an ingredient, what plants would suit a corner of the room. Pausing turns off both the camera and the microphone. Meta's help page says live AI is available in English and rolling out over time in the US and Canada.

Live translation

Live translation works with 20 languages when you're connected: English, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, German, Hindi, Arabic, Russian, Swedish, Finnish, Chinese (Mandarin), Japanese, Korean, Indonesian, Vietnamese, Thai, Turkish, Greek and Dutch. English, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese and German also work offline after you download the language pack, except on Ray-Ban Meta Audio. You start it with "Hey Meta, start live translation" or from the Translate button in the Meta AI app. On glasses without a display, the translation of what you say appears as text in the app, where the other person can read it or tap to hear it.

Everything else

Meta adds features through regular software updates. Among the ones in its release notes and announcements this year:

• Since March, you can keep talking to Meta AI and interrupt it without repeating "Hey Meta" on Ray-Ban Meta and Oakley Meta HSTN in the US and Canada.
• Meta AI can remember details you mention and use them later, in the US and Canada only. Ask "Hey Meta, what do you remember about me?" to see what it knows, and tell it to forget specific things.
• You can connect Google or Outlook calendars, and since May you can have Meta AI read your email aloud, both in English in the US and Canada.
• Conversation focus amplifies the voice of the person in front of you in noisy places, free through the Early Access program in 21 countries according to Meta's release notes, though its help article lists only the US and Canada.
• Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music and Audible work by voice, Shazam identifies songs, and in English a Spotify feature plays a song to match what you're looking at.
• "Hey Meta, restyle this" turns what you see into a stylized image, and the camera adds hyperlapse, slow motion and dynamic photos that capture several frames.
• Garmin, Strava, Apple Health and Health Connect integrations overlay workout stats on your videos, and a compatible Garmin device adds snow sports tracking.
• Be My Eyes connects blind and low-vision users with a sighted volunteer for hands-free visual help.
• Nutrition tracking, announced in March for adults in the US, logs meals by voice or photo.

To see exactly what your glasses support, open the Meta AI app, tap Glasses, then Device settings, and scroll to Experiences.

What works on which glasses

Prices are Meta's US starting prices from its May guide and its September and March announcements. Our Oakley Meta guide covers the two sport models in more detail.

The camera is the dividing line. Because Ray-Ban Meta Audio has none, the features that depend on it, such as asking about what you see, live AI and photo capture, aren't part of that model; it keeps the voice assistant, music, calls and translation. At the other end, Meta Ray-Ban Display adds a screen in the lens, so Meta AI can show answers, walking directions, live captions and a teleprompter instead of only speaking.

Some features also reach models at different times. Auto-capture, which records highlights hands-free, launched in Early Access on Ray-Ban Meta (Gen 2), Oakley Meta HSTN and Oakley Meta Vanguard in the US and Canada, and Meta says the Athlete Intelligence fitness features started on Vanguard before spreading. Meta AI isn't available on Ray-Ban Stories, the 2021 model.

Languages and regions

You can set Meta AI on glasses to 13 languages: Dutch, English, French, German, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Kannada, Korean, Portuguese (Brazil), Spanish (Latin America), Spanish (Spain) and Telugu, according to Meta's help center. You change it in the Meta AI app under Device settings, Meta AI, Language and voice.

Eighteen more languages are available through Meta's partners, from Bengali and Polish to Turkish and Vietnamese, with limits. They need Wi-Fi, they may not support calling, messaging or sharing from the glasses, live AI or a choice of voices, and questions about what you see can take longer.

Meta's help center lists 17 countries where its AI glasses are "currently available and supported": the US, Canada, the UK, Ireland, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland. That list trails Meta's own announcements: Ray-Ban Meta and Oakley Meta launched in Singapore in April and in Japan and South Korea in May, Meta's release notes list India, Mexico and the United Arab Emirates among the countries with conversation focus, and Meta said in September that Ray-Ban Meta and Oakley Meta reach 11 more markets later this year. Within those countries, many of the newest features, including live AI, memory, calendar and email, start in English in the US and Canada.

Privacy settings to know

Meta AI on glasses involves a camera and an always-ready microphone, so these are the settings and rules that matter most:

• Voice recordings: your voice interactions are stored in a voice activity log, and Meta says it can use them, including with trained human reviewers, to improve its products. Since the switch to the Meta AI app, Meta says, "the option to disable voice recordings storage is no longer available," but you can delete recordings. Find them in the Meta AI app under Glasses, Device settings, your glasses, Glasses privacy, then Voice activity log.
• Camera access by voice: Meta AI's camera use is switched on with "Hey Meta." If you turn off "Hey Meta," you also turn off taking photos for Meta AI by voice.
• Photos and videos: the ones you capture for your gallery stay on the glasses until you import them to your phone, and only you see them unless you share them, Meta says. Photos you use for a Meta AI question go to Meta's cloud for processing.
• Additional data: during setup you choose whether to share extra usage data from your glasses with Meta. You can change it later in Glasses privacy, and Meta says the choice doesn't cover your photos and videos.
• Memory: in the US and Canada, ask Meta AI what it remembers and tell it to forget specific details, or delete a chat message to remove what it learned from it.
• The capture LED: a white light blinks whenever the glasses capture photos or video for your gallery, and it has no off switch. From the second generation on, the camera stops working if the LED is covered, and Meta says it is now also disabling the camera on glasses where the LED has been tampered with. We explain how recording lights work and what bystanders should know in separate guides.

Meta also announced at Connect that it's bringing Private Processing to AI glasses, which it says delivers AI features "without anyone, including Meta, seeing your data." It listed the feature as coming soon, without a date.

What's coming with Muse

Muse is not the same thing as Muse Spark. Muse Spark is the model that already powers Meta AI on glasses. Muse is Meta's personal AI agent, launched on Sept. 8 in the US, which carries out tasks on your behalf: booking, buying, sending email and following up on long-term goals.

At Connect, Meta said it's bringing Muse to its AI glasses "in the coming months." You'll call it by saying your agent's name, and it will be able to act on what you're looking at, such as a product on a shelf or a flier on a wall, while it works in the background and checks back when it's done. Meta hasn't said which glasses get it first. Our explainer covers what Muse will do on your glasses, and our Meta AI vs Gemini vs Siri comparison shows how Meta's assistant stacks up against Google's and Apple's. Everything else Meta announced in September is in our Connect 2026 recap, and the app that controls all of it is explained in our Meta AI app guide.