Meta introduced its first AI smart glasses product with a display, the Meta Ray-Ban Display. The device includes a display projected on the right lens, based on an 5,000 nits LCoS panel, provided by Omnivision, with a waveguide provided by Lumus.
Meta says that the battery life in "mixed use" will be around 6 hours. The glasses will ship on September 30 in the US, starting at $799.
The display offers a 20-degrees field of view with a resolution of 600x600 (pixel density - 42 FPD).
Meta's choice of an LCoS display was disappointing to people in the microLED industry. But it seems that microLEDs are not yet mature enough for a mass market device.
According to Trendforce, AR glasses shipments will increase almost 10% in 2025, and reach 600,000 units. Trendforce believes that as LCoS are more mature than microLEDs, they offer a lower cost solution - and an overall lower power one. LCoS still faces challenges in terms of size, brightness and contrast. According to Trendforce, by 2028, microLED based solutions will be able to compete with LCoS, and will reach a market share of 65% by 2030.
