Meta just unleashed the future of wearables at Connect. The company's new Ray-Ban Display glasses pack a full-color screen and come bundled with an EMG wristband that reads your muscle signals, letting you control everything with subtle finger movements. At $799, it's the first consumer product to combine cameras, displays, AI, and neural interfaces in stylish eyewear that doesn't look like sci-fi.
Meta just dropped a bombshell at Connect that changes everything we thought we knew about smart glasses. The company's new Ray-Ban Display isn't just another camera-equipped wearable - it's the first consumer device to successfully merge displays, AI, and neural interface technology into something people might actually want to wear every day.
Mark Zuckerberg revealed the $799 glasses during his keynote, and the specs are genuinely impressive. Each pair comes with a full-color, high-resolution display that appears off to the side of your vision when needed, then disappears completely when you don't. But the real breakthrough is what comes in the box: Meta's Neural Band, an EMG wristband that translates muscle signals from your wrist into commands for the glasses.
"It makes interacting with your glasses feel like magic," according to Meta's official announcement. The technology is so sensitive it can detect finger movements before they're even visible to the naked eye. Want to scroll through messages? Just move your thumb sideways. Need to adjust volume? Pinch and rotate your wrist like you're turning a dial.
The Neural Band represents four years of EMG research involving nearly 200,000 participants. Meta's team had to solve the massive challenge of muscle signal variance between different people - and they did it. The wristband works "right out of the box for nearly anyone," which is a huge technical achievement in neural interface design.
From an accessibility standpoint, this could be transformative. The muscle signals work for people who can't produce large movements due to spinal injuries, strokes, or tremors. It also functions for users with fewer than five fingers. Meta's been quietly building something that's not just cool tech, but genuinely inclusive.
The glasses themselves pack an impressive feature set. Meta AI now shows visual responses instead of just talking back to you. Ask for cooking instructions and you'll see step-by-step visuals right in your eyeline. The system handles real-time translation with live captions, turn-by-turn navigation with visual maps, and seamless messaging across WhatsApp, Messenger, and Instagram.
