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Meta To Release Spatial Computing Version Of Smartglasses
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Meta unveiled its newest smartglasses — AI-powered, wristband-controlled, and featuring a display right in the lens.
The Big Picture: While Meta’s Reality Labs has lost $70 billion since 2020, its smartglasses line has steadily gained traction. The latest model, the Meta Ray-Ban Display, is designed to shift users from smartphones to facial computing — a move that could turn Reality Labs into a success story (or at least help it sidestep Apple’s and Google’s app-store fees).
Behind The Lenses: Zuckerberg showed off the new Ray-Bans — which will be available for $799 starting September 30th — during his Meta Connect 2025 keynote.
According to TechCrunch, the glasses feature cameras, speakers, microphones, an AI assistant, and a computing display on the lens that’s “offset so as not to obstruct one’s sightline.”
The display supports Meta’s apps like Facebook and Instagram, messaging, directions, and live translations.
The glasses are controllable via an included “Neural Band,” which “uses surface electromyography (sEMG) to pick up on signals sent between your brain and your hand when performing a gesture.”
The Neural Band (which looks a bit like a screenless Fitbit) is water-resistant, lasts 18 hours, and enables a variety of gesture-based controls.
The Future: Onstage, Zuckerberg demonstrated “air writing” using the Neural Band— holding his fingers like a pen and scribbling in midair. Reality Labs testers managed 21 words per minute this way, compared to the 36 wpm average on a smartphone. The company expects users to get faster as they adapt to the tech.
It’s wild to think Meta may have just invented an even more distracting way to text in class.
Vision: Pairing its wrist-control tech with future AR capabilities could eventually position smartglasses as a defining technology for Meta — firmly ushering in its hardware era.
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Today’s email was written by David Vendrell.
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