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Meta is pausing merchandise of its Ray-Ban Display smart glasses to nan UK, France, Italy and Canada owed to "unprecedented request and constricted inventory," nan institution said connected Monday astatine CES 2026. There's nary caller day for nan description that was primitively group for early 2026. "We'll proceed to attraction connected fulfilling orders successful nan US while we re-evaluate our attack to world availability," Meta wrote connected its blog.
Since Meta's show glasses first went connected sale, acquiring them has been a challenge. They're not disposable online and tin only beryllium recovered successful a constricted number of unit outlets including prime Ray-Ban, Sunglass Hut, LensCrafters and Best Buy locations successful nan United States. To bargain them, you request to book an assignment for a demo astatine 1 those stores via Meta's website. Ahead of launch, Meta said it saw "strong" request for demos pinch locations booked up for respective weeks.
There was optimism that readiness would summation arsenic nan institution expected buying options to "expand" nan longer they were connected sale. However, pinch nan hold of nan planned world launch, it appears that nan institution still has a mismatch betwixt proviso and demand.
Meta's $799 Ray-Ban Display glasses are its first to incorporated a heads-up show and are besides equipped pinch a camera, stereo speakers, six microphones, WiFi 6 and a digit search Neural Band controller. In her review, Engadget's elder newsman Karissa Bell noted that nan Ray-Ban show "enables wearers to do overmuch much than what's presently imaginable pinch [other] Ray-Ban aliases Oakley models" — provided you don't mind nan look of nan chunky, chunky frames.
