Due to 'extremely limited inventory', Meta's smart glasses with a display won't be shipping outside the US anytime soon

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Would you strap an AI machine and a few cameras to your face?

Mark Zuckerberg standing onstage at the Meta Connect 2025 livestream event, wearing a pair of Ray-Ban Meta glasses and attempting to answer a call
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Are you interested in a 'first of its kind' set of AI glasses with 'a private in-lens display and on-wrist control'? Well, you'd better get in line, buddy, as Meta has seemingly not been able to keep up with demand.

As reported in its CES 2026 blog (via TechCrunch), Meta's Ray-Ban Display, a "product with extremely limited inventory", has seen "an overwhelming amount of interest", meaning that the wishlist for the product continues to extend into 2026. As a result, the rollout of the glasses to the UK, France, Italy, and Canada will no longer happen in early 2026 as scheduled.

Meta Ray-Bans Display smart glasses on a white background

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The glasses can currently display information like texts, images you've prompted it for, or even live captions and translations. You can use voice commands to control it, but if you don't fancy talking to yourself in public, that's what the band is for. As pointed out by Meta, the Display was included in the 'Wearable Technology' section of Time's best inventions of 2025, saying it "feels a world away from where the technology was just a few years ago."

However, this doesn't mean the glasses aren't without problems, as they had a pretty catastrophic live demo from none other than Mark Zuckerberg just before their launch.

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The CES logo on display at the show.

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When in stock, the Meta Ray-Bans Display sell for a starting cost of $799, but we don't know what the initial stock of the product looked like. Meta says it has very limited inventory, so we don't actually know how successful a product it is just yet. However, selling out so quickly is certainly not a bad sign for Meta and its AI machinations.

Of course, AI glasses still come with their own sticking points, like the look and feel of them, plus their reliance on Meta AI and the need to have the Meta AI mobile app on your phone.

This is before mentioning privacy concerns that come with having little cameras attached to your face at all points, but alas, I fear that ship has sailed, if the prevalence of prank content and IRL streaming is anything to go off.

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James Bentley
James Bentley
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James is a more recent PC gaming convert, often admiring graphics cards, cases, and motherboards from afar. It was not until 2019, after just finishing a degree in law and media, that they decided to throw out the last few years of education, build their PC, and start writing about gaming instead. In that time, he has covered the latest doodads, contraptions, and gismos, and loved every second of it. Hey, it’s better than writing case briefs.

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