A few months ago, we reported that Meta is in designing a new AR glasses product, that will be based on microLED panels, replacing the currently-used LCoS displays in the first-generation Meta Ray-Ban Display. Meta is said to aim to launch these microLED AR glasses towards the end of 2027.
Meta's First-Gen Ray Ban Display, LCoS based
Meta will not produce its own microLED, but the company is highly involved in the microLED display development. There's a new job opening at Meta (at Sunnyvale, CA), for an advanced manufacturing engineer to drive the ramp-up of RGB microLED chips at the company's key external partner.
Meta says that this engineer will take charge of the key production ramp phases for microLEDs microdisplays - from epitaxy through the device fabrication process and end-of-line testing.
Meta has been developing microLED technologies for many years. In September 2024, Meta announced the Orion AR headset project, based on microLED microdisplays. It was assumed that Meta uses JBD's microdisplays. The company's latest AI AR headset, as we said above, the Ray Ban Display, uses an LCoS display engine.
We have heard reports claiming that the development based on Plessey's technology and processes did not progress as expected, and Meta has decided to abandon the Plessey project. But in early 2025 it was revealed that these two companies still work together. Meanwhile in August 2025, Plessey was acquired by Haylo VC.
A few weeks ago we reported that Meta might be also collaborating with ams OSRAM on microLED chip supply for microLED microdisplays.
Join us in September in Eindhoven at MicroLED-ARVR-Connecty 2026, where Meta will discuss its microLED projects!
