Third generation of the camera-equipped Ray-Ban Meta glasses, the mainstream model of the line, with multiple microphones and Meta AI.
Meta's $449 Ray-Ban Meta (Gen 3) is rated for nine hours of battery, one more than before, Gizmodo's review reported. Calls let in more background noise in the reviewer's tests, so for owners of the last pair that hour is close to the whole upgrade.
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Nightclubs, restaurants and DEFCON banned Meta glasses because they film. The new audio pair drops the camera, keeps the microphones and the Muse agent, and from the front it looks like an ordinary Ray-Ban.
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The third-generation Ray-Ban Meta glasses start at £409/€449 and $449, and ZDNET reports Meta left the camera LED and sensors physically unchanged, handling tamper protection in software backed by account bans.
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The Ray-Ban Meta Audio pair runs the same Muse assistant as the Gen 3 flagship and drops the image capture that Mark Zuckerberg named first when he explained why glasses beat every other AI wearable.
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The Ray-Ban Meta Audio Glasses start at $349 with no camera, 43 grams and about 12 hours of battery, while the camera-equipped Gen 3 rises to $449. The Verge reports the launch included no new privacy controls.
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The Meta VR Glasses weigh 100g, run the existing Quest catalog and arrive in spring 2027 at $1,299. The Meta wearable that actually ships next month is a $349 pair of Ray-Bans with no cameras at all.
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Meta's first audio-only Ray-Bans drop the lens that Wetherspoon pubs and the Faslane submarine base banned, and at GBP 319 they undercut by GBP 90 the camera model Meta shipped on the same day.
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The Ray-Ban Meta Audio arrives on October 13 at $349 with 12 hours of runtime, Dolby Atmos and no camera. The microphones that most no-recording rules were written to catch are still on board.
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