Meta’s upcoming Ray-Ban “Display” smart glasses have apparently leaked ahead of the Meta Connect 2025 event revealing new hardware features, including a heads up display (via Upload).
An unlisted video on Meta’s YouTube channel briefly showed off the product in action before it was removed. The leak confirms previous rumors and gives more insight into what users may expect when the glasses are officially announced.
The leaked footage indicates that one lens of the Ray-Ban Display model incorporates a monocular fixed heads up display (HUD) over the right eye. The HUD appears capable of overlaying maps for navigation, message responses, translation of text, and interaction with Meta AI in a visible real world view.
Alongside the glasses, a surface electromyography wristband (sEMG wristband) is shown in use. The wristband reads signals from hand muscles to support gestures such as swiping on a surface to respond to notifications.
Design wise, the Ray-Ban Display glasses appear bulkier than existing Ray-Ban Meta models. In particular the temple is thicker, likely to accommodate the display module and associated electronics. Earlier rumors suggested that EssilorLuxottica had reservations about the thickness requirement. The thicker frame seems to reflect a compromise to include the display while retaining Ray-Ban’s styling.
Meta’s prior prototype known as Orion featured very similar technology including a HUD and a gesture wristband. But that product was said to be expensive and complex to produce as a consumer device. The Ray-Ban Display seems to bring a scaled version of Orion’s vision.
The Ray-Ban Display glasses are not built for full augmented reality in the sense of overlaying 3D virtual objects into the environment. Instead they focus on information display through the HUD and interaction via wristband gestures.
Multiple reports put the price near $800 for the pair, though an exact figure has not been confirmed by Meta.
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