Mark Zuckerberg introduced Meta Ray-Ban Display glasses with a Neural Band wristband that uses surface electromyography to detect brain-to-hand signals for silent text input.

 Mark Zuckerberg introduced Meta Ray-Ban Display glasses with a Neural Band wristband that uses surface electromyography to detect brain-to-hand signals for silent text input.

“The promise of glasses is to preserve this sense of presence that you have with other people,” said CEO Mark Zuckerberg at the Meta Connect 2025 keynote. “I think that we’ve lost it a little bit with phones, and we have the opportunity to get it back with glasses.”

Zuckerberg demonstrated typing at 30 words per minute by “writing” with finger gestures, approaching iPhone typing speeds.

The glasses display Meta apps, directions, and translations while preserving social presence compared to smartphones. Meta’s Reality Labs has invested $70 billion since 2020 in this technology.

While positioning smart glasses as more prosocial than phones, Meta ultimately aims to reduce dependence on Apple and Google’s app store ecosystems.