How to make a video call with Ray-Ban Meta glasses: apps, steps and limits

Ray-Ban Meta glasses can send their camera view to the other person on a WhatsApp, Messenger or Instagram video call. Start the video call in the app, tap Glasses, and the person you're talking to sees what the glasses see. Double-pressing the capture button switches back to your phone's camera, according to Meta's help center. The glasses have no screen, so you can't see the other person.

This guide is based on Meta's help center and release notes (read Oct. 26, 2026), Meta's announcements and Ray-Ban's FAQ, and we haven't tested the glasses.

Which glasses can share a view

We found no model-by-model list for video calls in Meta's pages. Its calling article covers Ray-Ban Meta, Oakley Meta and Meta Glasses, and sharing a view needs the camera, so a camera-free pair has nothing to send.

Connect the apps first

Calls run through the apps on your phone, so connect each one once in the Meta AI app:

1. Tap Glasses in the top right, then Device settings. If you have more than one pair, swipe to the one you want first.
2. Under Glasses, tap your glasses, then tap Communication.
3. Tap Connect next to WhatsApp, Messenger or Instagram.

Those are the steps in Meta's calling article, and our calls and messages guide covers the rest of the setup.

How to share your view on a video call

1. Put the glasses on and start a video call with the contact in WhatsApp, Messenger or Instagram on your phone. Meta's share-your-view article doesn't describe how the call itself starts. It begins from a video call that's already running.
2. During the call, tap Glasses. The other person now sees the glasses' camera view.
3. To switch between the glasses' view and your phone's camera view, double-press the capture button on the glasses.
4. To go hands-free, lock your phone. Meta says the glasses' view keeps sharing.
5. To finish, say "Hey Meta, hang up," double-tap the touchpad on the glasses or hang up on your phone.

Ray-Ban's FAQ adds that you can share your view with only one app at a time.

What the other person sees and hears

While you share the glasses' view, the other person sees what the glasses' camera sees, which isn't your face. After you switch, they see your phone's camera view, whatever that camera is pointed at. The microphones in the frame pick up your voice, and you hear the other person through the open-ear speakers. We found no resolution, frame rate or maximum length for a shared view in Meta's pages.

Control a call by voice

Meta's release notes list in-call voice commands in the update that began the week of June 29, 2026. You can answer or decline an incoming call with "Hey Meta, answer" or "Hey Meta, decline." While you're on a call, Meta says you can say "Hey Meta" followed by mute, unmute, camera on, camera off, hang up or end call. Meta says the commands are "processed on your device, and nothing from your call is stored by Meta."

Calls started by voice use "Hey Meta, call" and a name, with "on WhatsApp" added to pick the app. Emergency calls, such as 911 in the US, have to be started from your phone.

What Meta Ray-Ban Display adds

Meta Ray-Ban Display is the pair with a screen in the lens, so it can show the caller. Meta's hands-free communication page says it shows who you're talking to in the lens. Meta's release notes for the week of May 14, 2026 add WhatsApp group video calls, where you can switch to the glasses' point-of-view camera, and real-time captions during phone, WhatsApp, Messenger and Instagram Direct calls, which Meta says are processed on-device for privacy.

On Sept. 23, 2026, Meta announced Hologram, a photorealistic digital version of your face for calls from the Display. You make it with a short self-capture in the Meta AI app, and Meta says the model "infers your expression from what you're saying and how you're saying it." Early Access on WhatsApp for Display owners in the US starts "later this fall," and Meta hasn't given a date. Our guide to Display apps and features lists what else the glasses run.

Battery, heat and the capture light

We found no battery figure for video calls in Meta's pages. Our battery guide lists EssilorLuxottica's continuous-call figures, about four hours on Gen 1 and about 5.5 hours on Gen 2, for calls in general. Battery saver mode pauses "Hey Meta" listening, so the in-call voice commands may not respond while it's on, and Meta doesn't say how the mode treats video calls.

Neither Meta nor Ray-Ban says which activities warm the frame or at what temperature the glasses shut down. Four red blinks of the notification light mean a shutdown is coming because of the battery, heat or cold, according to Ray-Ban's FAQ, and our overheating guide has the steps if a pair overheats in normal use.

The camera that shares your view also has a capture light. Hamburg's data protection office found that on the first-generation Ray-Ban Meta it tested, the outward light turned on for photos and videos, live streams and video calls. People near you can see it, even though the person on the call can't. Meta says the light has no off switch and that, from the second generation on, the camera is automatically disabled if the light is blocked. If other people are in view, tell them you're sharing it. Our recording light guide has what regulators say.

If video calls don't work

1. Check the connection. Open Communication in the Meta AI app, tap the app, tap Disconnect and then connect it again.
2. Update the messaging app, make sure you're signed in, and update the Meta AI app and the glasses. Meta's release notes say to do the last two to get new features.
3. On your phone, give the messaging app Bluetooth permission and leave it running in the background. Ray-Ban's FAQ, which uses Messenger on iPhone as its example, says closing it can interrupt hands-free calling.
4. If people say you sound broken up or very quiet, Ray-Ban says the microphones may need adjusting, and the Meta AI app has a microphone troubleshooting setting.
5. If it still fails, use the Get support button at the bottom of Meta's help articles to reach Meta Store Support.