Meta Gets Ready To Launch Two New Ray-ban Ai Glasses

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Meta and its AI glasses hardware partner EssilorLuxottica are getting fresh to motorboat nan adjacent procreation of their Ray-Ban AI glasses. That’s according to a bid of FCC filings for 2 caller Meta Ray-Ban models that were published by nan agency earlier this month.

The filings picture nan tested devices arsenic accumulation units, suggesting that Meta whitethorn motorboat them soon. When nan institution unveiled its second-generation Ray-Bans successful precocious 2023, it did truthful a small complete a period aft nan devices passed done nan FCC.

Meta did not instantly respond to a petition for comment.

As is customary, nan FCC filings are heavy redacted, truthful we don’t cognize yet precisely what nan 2 models will look like, aliases what caller features they will offer. However, nan filings did uncover a fewer absorbing details: Some of nan included documents place nan trading names for nan caller models arsenic “RayBan Meta Scriber” and “RayBan Meta Blazer,” while besides noting that nan “Blazer” exemplary will beryllium disposable successful a regular and a ample size.

The documents do mention a charging lawsuit arsenic being portion of nan tests, suggesting that nan caller Ray-Bans will erstwhile again characteristic a lawsuit you tin usage to complaint them connected nan go.

The exemplary numbers for Meta’s Blazer and Scriber glasses are RW7001 and RW7002, respectively. That successful itself is noteworthy, arsenic presently disposable first- and second-gen Meta Ray-Ban exemplary numbers scope from RW4002 to RW4014. The large jump successful nan exemplary number could propose a important hardware upgrade, possibly including a newer chipset.

Another quality betwixt current-gen Ray-Bans and nan 2 caller models revealed successful these FCC filings: The caller models make usage of nan Wi-Fi 6 UNII-4 band, which could adhd reliability to high-speed information transfers — a characteristic that could travel successful useful for some livestreaming and immoderate AI features that require unrecorded video transmission.

Ray-Ban AI glasses person proven to beryllium a deed for Meta and EssilorLuxottica: The 2 companies sold more than 7 cardinal pairs past year, according to EssilorLuxottica’s astir caller net report. Sales for 2023 and 2024 mixed amounted to 2 cardinal units. The institution is looking to ramp up manufacturing capacity to 20–30 cardinal units annually by nan extremity of this year, Bloomberg reported successful January.

Meta besides expanded its business pinch EssilorLuxottica successful 2025, launching a first brace of Oakley-branded AI glasses, arsenic good arsenic a first brace of Ray-Ban Display glasses pinch an integrated monocular display.

“Sales of our glasses much than tripled past year, and we deliberation that they’re immoderate of nan fastest increasing user electronics successful history,” said Mark Zuckerberg during nan company’s astir caller net call, adding: “For Reality Labs, we’re directing astir of our finance towards glasses and wearables going forward.”

As portion of this displacement successful priorities, Meta has been importantly reducing its VR investments. The institution laid disconnected 1,000 Reality Labs labor earlier this year, shuttered aggregate VR crippled studios, and followed up pinch additional occupation cuts Wednesday. As portion of these cutbacks, Meta besides planned to unopen down its Horizon Worlds metaverse task successful VR. However, nan institution reversed this determination past week successful consequence to pleas from VR users.