Unboxing Meta Ray-Ban Display Glasses [7:01]

YouTube ^ | September 19, 2025 | Unbox Therapy

[SunkenCiv]

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Unboxing Meta Ray-Ban Display Glasses | 7:01 
Unbox Therapy | 24.7M subscribers | 1,394,517 views | September 19, 2025

[SunkenCiv]

We Tore Down Meta's Ray-Ban Display Glasses -- And They're WAY More Advanced Than You Think | 9:30 
iFixit | 1.22M subscribers | 183,229 views | October 8, 2025

 

0:00 – The End of the Smartphone? 
0:09 – Meet the Meta Ray-Ban Display Glasses 
0:24 – Meta Ray-Ban Display Design Evolution & Features 
0:47 – Meta Ray-Ban Display: Real-World AR Use Cases 
0:53 – Meta Ray-Ban Display Repairability Problem 
1:18 – Meta Ray-Ban Display Teardown: Opening the Frame 
2:32 – Meta Ray-Ban Display Battery Removal & Specs 
3:14 – Meta Ray-Ban Display Processor Arm & Snapdragon AR1 
4:11 – Breaking Into the Meta Ray-Ban Display Waveguide Assembly 
4:46 – Meta Ray-Ban Display Camera Secrets Revealed 
5:04 – Meta Ray-Ban Display Waveguide & Projector Explained 
5:32 – Expert Insight: How Meta Ray-Ban Display AR Works 
6:10 – Inside the Meta Ray-Ban Display LCOS System 
6:51 – Next-Gen Meta Ray-Ban Display Glassmaking Technology 
7:52 – Geometric vs. Diffractive Waveguides in Meta Ray-Ban Display 
8:42 – What's Next for Meta Ray-Ban Display Glasses? 
9:15 – Meta Ray-Ban Display: Repairability vs. Innovation

[SunkenCiv]

This gave me a Harry Caray flashback.

[Steely Tom]

I used to work in a company that put the vacuum-deposited thin film coatings on Ray-Ban lenses. I don't know that it was the only company that did this, but they definitely did it.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

[SunkenCiv]

There’s nothing new under the skir-, er, Sun...

[Governor Dinwiddie]

Yeah. At my age I've seen it all before!

[Highest Authority]

It would be helpul to the uninnitiated ( us old people ) to explaine what these glasses are and their purpose.

[PGalt]

WOW! Thanks for posting ‘Civ.

[MikelTackNailer]

They closely resemble the ABCs I was issued in the military:

Army Birth Control glasses.

Seriously though, a heads-up display is great on aircraft and would make Tesla vehicles far more desirable if implemented, but in one's personal visual field is information overload leading to accidents and fatalities.

[OldMissileer]

I used to work in a company that put the vacuum-deposited thin film coatings on Ray-Ban lenses.

Back in the 70s and 80s I bought a couple of pair of their Ambermatic lens sunglasses. Best hunting and driving glasses ever. They weren't for crap flying (not dark enough, had buy the G15s). My final pair broke and the lens was scratched and they don't make them any more.

I am really bummed.

[Buttons12]

I went to the link in Civ’s post #1.
It appears they’ve got spectacles that will make phones obsolete (someday). You can see stuff in the lenses, that you now see in your phone. Problems (aside from walking around almost blind, tripping over things, getting run over...) problems include the fact that right now these glasses are not repairable and they cost around $1000. If you even scratch the lenses (like by falling over something you should have been watching out for) you can’t get replacement parts. Yet.
People will someday be driving cars while wearing these things, and they will be justly darwinized...so, there’s that.

[Beowulf9]

Wow!

I looked them up on Amazon, go for $379.00.

Meanwhile I’m making an apple pie and this makes me feel like I’m from the 1800s...

[SunkenCiv]

What?!? Everything has to have a *purpose* now?!? 😁 Home computers (as we used to call them) produced a similar reaction at one time. They are (intended as) a way to dispense with having to carry a phone -- voice calls, maps/navigation, and search engines will be available while wearing these, unobtrusive (apart from the appearance, wooo are they ugly), and probably 90 minutes of battery life. All for the low low price of... 💰

[tumblindice]

Guaranteed to protect GIs from VD.

[SunkenCiv]

I’m sure Drew Carey will be an early adopter of these, he picked up his first pair in the USMC.

[SunkenCiv]

My pleasure!

[SunkenCiv]

Wow! That’s about a fifth of what I’d estimated!

[rlmorel]

Opti-Grab.

[wjcsux]

I’m old enough to remember those.

[Joe 6-pack]

The upside is you can use these to check your dating profiles for any new incoming messages.

The downside is there won't be any.