Meta just unveiled the Ray-Ban Display, smart glasses with a wristband that lets you text using only hand gestures.
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If you can’t resist checking your phone all the time, Meta wants you to swap it for smart glasses instead. At Meta Connect 2025, CEO Mark Zuckerberg unveiled the company’s most ambitious hardware yet: the Meta Ray-Ban Display.
The new glasses feature a built-in display, cameras, speakers, microphones, and an AI assistant. They can show notifications, directions, and even live translations. But the real innovation is the Meta Neural Band, a wristband that reads tiny electrical signals from your brain to your hand, letting you “write” text messages in the air without speaking.
Zuckerberg showed off the tech live onstage, quickly writing out texts with just subtle finger movements. “I’m up to about 30 words a minute on this,” he claimed, nearly as fast as typing on a smartphone.
Unlike past versions of Meta’s smart glasses, this model allows users to interact silently in public without awkwardly talking to their glasses. Gesture controls on the Neural Band are also expected to handle more advanced commands over time.
Meta is betting that these glasses could one day replace smartphones entirely, shifting culture away from screens and toward more natural, face-to-face interaction. “The technology needs to get out of the way,” Zuckerberg said.
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Of course, whether people actually trade in their sleek iPhones for a pair of Ray-Bans remains to be seen. But Meta’s $70 billion investment in Reality Labs signals it’s all-in on a future where glasses, not phones, dominate our daily lives.
