Meta Hits Pause on a Key Plan for Ray-Ban Display Glasses

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If you want to buy a pair of Meta's Ray-Ban Display glasses, you may be in for a long wait, especially if you live outside the US.

Meta said in a blog post Tuesday that a combination of strong demand and "extremely limited inventory" of the new augmented reality glasses, introduced in September, has caused it to pause a planned early 2026 expansion to the UK, France, Italy ...