Meta Ray-Ban Display and everything else unveiled at Meta Connect 2025

On Meta Connect 2025, the largest event in the company of the year, Mark Zuckerberg revealed three new smart glasses: the second generation of Ray-Ban Meta, the Meta Ray-Ban display and wristband controller and the Oakley Meta Vanguard.

Meta says it has sold 2 million of the first generation Ray-Ban Meta Smart glasses, and earlier this year, Meta revealed its latest AI-driven smart glasses with Oakley, which are designed for athletes. Silicon Valley leans heavily in AI Wearables and Meta seems to be one of the companies that are in charge.

With Meta who wants to regain his foot in the AI ​​race and sell more hardware, the company had a lot at stake during the Meta Connect 2025 -keynote from Mark Zuckerberg. In general, Meta showed a number of pretty impressive technology-de meta neural band, the wristband controller that is supplied with the Meta Ray-Ban display, is a special highlight.

And yet, in a turn reminiscent of HBO’s ‘Silicon Valley’, Zuckerberg’s demo of the AI ​​options on the Ray-Ban Metas failed. Oops!

While sharing a live video specialist of the maker of the cooking content Jack Mercuso At Meta’s head office, Zuckerberg asked the chef to show how his Ray-Ban metag glasses could help him set up a Korean inspired steak sauce.

“I love the setup you have here, with soy sauce and other ingredients. How can I help?” asked the chipper meta ai voice.

Mancuso asked for a recipe for a steak-inspired steak sauce, and the AI ​​voice began to sum up the ingredients that he would need but mancuso knows that he should keep the demo concise, so he interrupts and asks: “What am I doing first?”

After a moment of silence that dragged a little too long, Mancuso repeated: “What should I do first?”

“You have already combined the basic ingredients, so now a pear is racing to add to the sauce,” said the AI. But he had not yet combined the basic ingredients because he had not started making the recipe, hence the question of what to do first.

Mancuso again asked the same question and the AI ​​gave the same answer. The audience laughed.

“I think the WiFi might be confused is back to you, Mark!” Said mancuso.

“You know what? It’s all good. The irony of the whole thing is that you spend years making the technology, and then the WiFi of the day of … catches you,” said Zuckerberg. “Anyway, we’re going to see what he made later.”

The entire interaction was a bit uncomfortable, especially because the problem did not seem to be with the WiFi. But even if it goes according to plan, these presentations can feel a bit Hokey … such as the end of the keynote, when Zuckerberg and Diplo literally ran into the sunset, with their meta Oakley Vanguards. It had to be a busy day for Mark, so maybe he just needed an excuse to build some cardio in his schedule.

Meta revealed the second generation of his Ray-Ban Meta glasseswho made his debut for the first time in 2023. This refurbished model has the double of the battery life of its predecessor, which now lasts up to eight hours of mixed use on one load. The glasses of the second generation also support Ultra HD 3K video recording, the company says it is twice as sharp as the last model.

The smart glasses from Meta also get some new functions with the release of the second generation Ray-Ban Metas, such as Conversation Focus, which will be available on the Ray-Ban Meta and Oakley Meta HSTN glasses.

“If you eat in a hot new restaurant, commute on the train or catch your favorite DJ’s newest set, Conversation Focus uses the speakers of your AI glasses to strengthen the voice of the person you are talking to,” Meta said in the press release.

Conversation -focus is not yet out, so we cannot say with certainty whether the only help will be for your next evening out.

The live AI function – which Meta has not filled in the right way on stage – is also on the road. But it is so energy-intensive that you can only use it for about an hour or two.

“As we make battery and energy efficiency optimizations, Meta AI will switch from something that encourages you with a wake word to an always available assistant,” the company said.

The Ray-Ban metablaases of the second generation costs $ 379.

The Meta Ray-Ban Display Smart Glasses are the most impressive glasses that Meta has unveiled so far, with a built-in display for apps, warnings and instructions on the right lens. But what distinguishes this pair of smart glasses is the corresponding wristband controller, the meta neural band.

With this wristband, Meta can show a bit of what it has spent so much time (and money) in its reality Labs division, which is notorious to lose billions of dollars per quarter.

Visually the meta -neural band looks like a fitbit without a screen. It is powered by Surface -Electromyography (Semg), which can pick up minimal hand gestures and small movements. This is much more advanced than a wrist gesture on an Apple Watch. Users can write text messages by keeping their fingers together as if they grab a pen and “write” the text. This means that you can see a WhatsApp message coming in on your right glasses and then answering by ‘writing’ your response.

For now, the glasses support meta apps, but the company will have to support a wide range of apps in the future to get the type of adoption they are looking for. Such as Apple and GoogleMeta bets that smart glasses could cut into the market share of the smartphone in the future – but it will be a big challenge to force such an enormous cultural shift.

The Meta Ray-Ban display, which comes with the Meta Neural Band, costs $ 799 and will be launched on September 30.

For the bearish among us it seems difficult to imagine that it is wearing smart glasses and sending SMS messages through handwriting in the air. But the Oakley Meta Vanguard Smart Glasses, which are designed for athletes, offer the most coherent use case to date for this type of technology.

Bikers, Traillopers and Skiers can photograph their adventures without removing their phones; The open -air speakers of the glasses can play music during your training and even a link with apps such as Strava and Garmin to pass on your statistics. Just like the other new glasses, the Vanguard model is also ai-ingredient.

Unlike other models of meta smart glasses, the Oakley Meta Vanguards only have one uniform for lens with a camera in the middle, instead of two lenses with cameras on both sides – it is a design that is more useful more technically, and it is a fashion declaration that you can deduct in athletic glasses), but not the proof), but not a spectacle). Capturing in a maximum of 3K resolution and a 12-megapixel camera with a 122-degree wide-angle lens.

The glasses has an IP67 dust and water resistance assessment for use during intense training sessions. Meta says that the wrapping design of the Glass Oakley Prizm Lens technology, which is designed to block sun, wind and dust.

Unless you are an ultramarathon runner, these glasses will easily last during your training. The glasses can stay nine hours or six hours with continuous music display. But the charging case with which the glasses are supplied can yield an extra load on the way for 36 hours. Meta claims that the charging case can quickly get the glasses to 50% in 20 minutes.

The Oakley Meta Vanguard -glasses Retail for $ 499 and can be purchased on October 21.

Meta did not release a new Quest set sets on the VR -Front as part of this year’s Connect. Although the conference and the company are named after the metaverse, we have learned about only a small number of updates to the VR, such as Hyperscape, with which developers and makers can build photo -realistic spaces in Virtual Reality.

Meta is reportedly developed An ultra -light VR headset For the launch towards the end of 2026, so maybe we see that flourish during the next Meta Connect event.