Meta Unveils $799 Ray-Ban Display Glasses, New Specs With 2x Battery & Oakley Vanguard

At the annual Meta Connect 2025 event, CEO Mark Zuckerberg pulled back the curtain on a new lineup of smart eyewear and in the process doubled down on the company's aggressive push into the competitive connected glasses market. The highly-anticipated announcement included a trio of new devices: the second-generation Ray-Ban Meta, the athlete-focused Oakley Meta Vanguard, and Meta's first augmented reality (AR) glasses, the Meta Ray-Ban Display.

Likely the star of the show for many is the next-generation Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses, an evolution of the successful debut model. One of the biggest changes is to battery life, which has improved by two hours over the first gen to eight hours on a single charge, complete with a redesigned charging case providing an additional 48 hours of power.

On the content creation front, the glasses now feature a 12-megapixel camera capable of capturing 3K Ultra HD video at ...