Meta Ray-Ban Display: price, features, battery life, Neural Band and where to buy

Meta Ray-Ban Display is Meta's first pair of glasses with a screen. A full-color display in the right lens shows messages, directions, captions, Meta AI answers and a camera viewfinder. It comes with the Meta Neural Band, a wristband that reads the electrical signals of the muscles in your wrist, so you can control the glasses with small finger movements. The pair costs $799 in the US.

Meta introduced the glasses on Sept. 17, 2025, and started selling them on Sept. 30, 2025, in a limited number of US stores. On Sept. 23, 2026, it added online ordering and expanded to the UK, Canada, France, Italy and Germany.

This guide is based on Meta's announcements, blog and help center and on Ray-Ban's published specifications. We haven't tested the glasses.

Meta Ray-Ban Display specs

The field of view, camera, audio, storage and connectivity figures come from Ray-Ban's spec sheet, which also lists the weight by size: 68 grams for the standard frame and 70 for the large. The rest is from Meta.

The display

The screen is monocular, so only your right eye sees it, and it sits slightly to the side of your line of sight. Meta says it's large enough to read a text message or watch a small video, and it disappears a few seconds after you stop using it. It isn't meant to be on all the time; Meta describes it as a display for short interactions.

Inside is a custom light engine and a geometric waveguide. Meta says the 42 pixels per degree make it sharper than any of its consumer VR headsets, and the brightness of up to 5,000 nits, together with the Transitions lenses and automatic brightness, is meant to keep it readable on sunny days. Only 2% of the light leaks outward, according to Meta, so people around you shouldn't be able to read your screen. The front still has the same white capture LED as Meta's other camera glasses.

How you control it

Most of the time you use the Neural Band. Tapping your index finger and thumb together selects, tapping your middle finger and thumb goes back, and swiping your thumb along your index finger scrolls. Pinching and turning your wrist like a dial changes the volume or zooms the camera. The band works with your hand resting at your side, and Meta's neural handwriting feature lets you write replies with a finger on any surface. Our Meta Neural Band explainer lists every gesture and covers sizing.

You can also use the touchpad on the right arm of the glasses or your voice. Ray-Ban's FAQ lists touchpad gestures for waking the glasses, scrolling, selecting, opening the menu and calling up Meta AI.

What it can do

The feature list has grown since launch, and several features are limited to the US or to English.

Messages, calls and navigation

You can read and reply to messages from WhatsApp, Messenger, Instagram and your phone's texting app, and take WhatsApp and Messenger video calls that show the other person what you see. Meta says neural handwriting works across Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger and native Android and iOS messaging.

Turn-by-turn walking directions with a map in the lens started in 28 cities and now cover every US city. At Connect 2026, Meta said cycling directions and live transit departures would arrive in the US and Canada starting in late September, and that walking directions will start using landmarks, such as "turn left at the yellow house."

Meta AI, captions and the camera

Meta AI can show answers and step-by-step instructions on the display. In the US, a July 2026 update moved the assistant to Meta's Muse Spark models, and Early Access users in the US and Canada can write questions to it with the Neural Band instead of speaking. Live captions show speech directed at you, and real-time translation covers 20 languages, according to Meta. The camera has a live viewfinder with zoom, so you can frame a shot before you take it and preview it before you share.

Music, work and social apps

The music card shows album art and controls for Spotify, Amazon Music, Apple Music on iPhone and Shazam, and you can browse Spotify in the lens. A teleprompter for notes and scripts began rolling out in January 2026. The calendar app links to Google Calendar and Outlook, and in the US, in English, it lets you see who's attending a meeting, accept or decline invites and join meetings. Widgets on the home screen show reminders, weather, stocks and your schedule. Instagram Reels arrived in March 2026 and Threads in July 2026.

Announced but not yet everywhere

Meta has described several features as coming soon: Hologram, a voice-driven digital version of your face for WhatsApp video calls, due in Early Access in the US later this fall; phone notifications mirrored on the display; and Explore, an app for finding experiences built for the glasses.

Battery life

The glasses and the band charge separately. Meta's help center gives the glasses up to six hours per charge, three hours less than the nine Meta quotes for Ray-Ban Meta Gen 3, and the case, which folds flat when empty, holds up to 24 more hours. The Neural Band lasts up to 18 hours and charges on its own charger.

Price and where to buy

The $799 US price includes the glasses and the Neural Band. In the UK it costs £749, in Canada CA$1,149 and in France, Italy and Germany €899. Online ordering opened on Sept. 23, 2026, in the US, UK and Canada and on Oct. 13 in France, Italy and Germany, through the Meta Store and certified retailers. An online tool measures your wrist with your phone's camera to pick a band size. You can also try them in stores: at launch, Meta sold them through select Best Buy, LensCrafters, Sunglass Hut, Ray-Ban and Meta Lab stores in the US, and the new markets started with stores in Vancouver, Toronto, London, Paris, Milan, Rome, Frankfurt, Hamburg and Munich.

The step-by-step buying process is in our guide to Meta Ray-Ban Display price and how to buy, and the dates for each country are in Meta Ray-Ban Display release dates.

Prescription lenses

You can get prescription lenses, but only when you buy the glasses. Meta's buying FAQ says the Display supports nearsightedness, farsightedness and astigmatism up to a total power of -4.00 to +4.00 (sphere plus cylinder) and up to 4.00 of cylinder. The lenses are single-vision polycarbonate with an anti-reflective coating and clear-to-grey Transitions. They're built into the display lens, so they can't be added later, and Meta says prescription orders take five to eight weeks. Meta's FAQ lists prescription as a $200 add-on in the US, for $999 in total.

Prescription orders are available through Meta.com in the US and Canada and at select stores in the UK, France and Italy, and Meta says they'll come to Germany later in 2026.

Is it worth it?

On paper, Meta Ray-Ban Display is for people who want to read messages, follow directions, see captions or check a viewfinder without taking out a phone. It's the only Meta glasses that can do any of that, and the Neural Band is included in the price.

The specs also show what you give up. Battery life is six hours against nine for Ray-Ban Meta Gen 3, the glasses weigh 69 grams, video is recorded at a lower resolution than Gen 3's 3K, there's one frame shape, and the prescription range is much narrower. It's sold in six countries, and some features are US-only or English-only. If you mostly want a camera, audio and the voice assistant, Gen 3 costs $350 less; our comparison of Meta Ray-Ban Display and Ray-Ban Meta Gen 3 goes through the differences.