5 min learnNew DelhiUp to date: Mar 29, 2026 11:17 AM IST
Meta is reportedly getting ready to launch two new variations of its AI-powered Ray Ban sensible glasses, designed particularly for customers who want prescription lenses, making them extra accessible for on a regular basis use.
The brand new prescription-focused fashions have been codenamed ‘Ray Ban Meta Scriber’ and ‘Ray Ban Meta Blazer’, as per a redacted submitting made by the social media large to the US Federal Communications Fee (FCC), the main points of which have been first reported by The Verge.
Meta’s upcoming sensible glasses have been developed in partnership with Ray Ban mother or father EssilorLuxottica. They may reportedly are available in rectangular and rounded kinds, and don’t rely as a subsequent technology of the corporate’s flagship wearable.
In September final 12 months, Meta launched the most recent iteration of the Ray Ban glasses alongside the primary mannequin of its augmented actuality (AR) glasses lineup with a built-in show referred to as the Meta Ray-Ban Shows, shipped with a neural wristband.
Whereas the corporate’s glasses have lengthy been obtainable with help for varied prescription lenses, this might mark the primary time that Meta has particularly designed sensible glasses for prescription wearers. The Mark Zuckerberg-led agency has seen early success within the sensible glasses class whilst different huge tech corporations look to catch up.
Apple, as an illustration, is reportedly working by itself sensible glasses which might be anticipated to come back to market someday subsequent 12 months, as per a report by Bloomberg. In contrast to the Meta Ray Ban Shows, Apple’s fashions will reportedly come with out built-in shows or augmented actuality help.
Zuckerberg had beforehand hinted at concentrating on prescription customers on an earnings name earlier this 12 months. “Billions of individuals put on glasses or contacts for imaginative and prescient correction,” the Meta CEO stated, including that “it’s arduous to think about a world in a number of years the place most glasses that folks put on aren’t AI glasses.”
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Whereas there are restricted particulars obtainable concerning the unreleased Ray Ban Meta sensible glasses, the truth that ‘Ray Ban’ comes earlier than ‘Meta’ within the names of the merchandise talked about within the FCC submitting might doubtlessly counsel that these glasses usually are not a part of the AR glasses lineup.
Moreover, there’s a third product within the submitting codenamed ‘Ray-Ban Meta Blazer Massive’, however this might simply be a bigger dimension variant of the Blazer mannequin. In addition to these particulars, the unreleased fashions are anticipated to be shipped with the identical options and capabilities rolled out in earlier fashions such because the sensible glasses’ use of Bluetooth in live performance with Wi-Fi and connecting to your telephone to do compute-intensive duties. The submitting additionally references a charging case, just like all generations of Meta’s sensible glasses.
Meta’s Ray Ban sensible glasses have surged in reputation over the previous few years, with an estimated seven million (70 lakh) clients reportedly buying the machine in 2025, up from a complete of two million (20 lakh) in 2023 and 2024.
The speedy success of the wearable has fueled the rise of sensible glasses as the following main computing interface after smartphones. However the identical expertise can be drawing criticism from observers who warn that it might normalise on a regular basis surveillance even because the AI trade pursues a platform shift that, to this point, has taken the form of ‘always-listening’ AI pendants and related wearables.
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Just lately, a brand new class motion lawsuit was filed in opposition to Meta within the US, alleging violations of client privateness tied to its sensible glasses. The Info Commissioner’s Workplace within the UK additionally stated it’s investigating Meta over this matter. It got here after information stories alleged that the sensible glasses uncovered delicate person content material, together with intimate moments, to human information annotators in nations comparable to Kenya that assist practice AI fashions.
In response to those allegations, Meta stated, “Until customers select to share media they’ve captured with Meta or others, that media stays on the person’s machine.” “When individuals share content material with Meta AI, we typically use contractors to evaluate this information for the aim of enhancing individuals’s expertise, as many different corporations do. We take steps to filter this information to guard individuals’s privateness and to assist stop figuring out data from being reviewed,” it added.
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