Developed in collaboration with Meta and Ray-Ban, a popular glasses brand, Meta Ray-Bans are smart glasses equipped with cameras, open-ear speakers, a microphone, and even a built-in touchpad. Their functionality ranges from taking calls and recording content to live text translation and discrete messaging features.
The Meta Ray-Ban series
The latest “Meta Ray-Ban Display” glasses allow users to navigate an integrated display with a neural wristband that features EMG (Electromyography) technology — interpreting the user’s muscle signals to read messages, answer calls, and silently engage Meta AI through hands-free interaction.
The new Meta Ray-Ban AI glasses with a private in-lens display and on-wrist control through the Meta Neural Band.
With the stylish design and robust capabilities of Meta technology, Meta Ray-Bans poses a significant step forward in assistive technology. These smart glasses have the potential to enhance everyday experiences of users with accessibility needs such as visual impairments and other disabilities.
The Meta Ray-Bans fuse both fashion and practicality to balance both functionality and personalization. An important part of user adoption for assistive technology is the everyday wearability of these devices. These smart glasses on the outside adopt the sleek and fashion forward design of the iconic Ray-Ban frames, but equipped with wearable technology, making them discreet and blend seamlessly into everyday wear. Further, their custom lenses offer both prescription and polarized (sunglasses) options with a wide variety of frame and material customization.
Meta Ray-Bans features a collection of styles and frames for personalization
Featuring both a built-in AI assistant and integrated voice and gesture commands, the new generation of Meta Ray-Bans allow users with disabilities to enhance their accessibility. Through hands-free accessibility, users can initiate calls, play music, and even access notifications without touching their devices at all. The gesture commands allow control through specific hand movements that are intuitive and easy to learn. Through voice instruction, the AI assistant aids users in navigation and direction, objection identification, text read-aloud, and live translation through their accessibility commands.
Testing the 3rd generation Meta Ray-Ban Display glasses with the neural wristband. Featuring an intuitive control of the volume or brightness, the user pinches their fingers together and rotates their wrist in either direction to adjust the intensity.