Meta's most dystopian product yet...

Fireship breaks down Meta’s $799 Ray-Ban display glasses and Neural Band wristband, calling them the most dystopian consumer tech of 2025.

• Meta’s Ray-Ban display glasses cost $799 and feature a full-color 600x600 pixel translucent heads-up display in the right lens.
• The Meta Neural Band wristband uses electromyography to detect hand movements before they are visually perceptible, replacing touchscreens.
• The Neural Band works universally without calibration after being tested on over 200,000 participants.
• Battery life is 6 hours; features include real-time language translation and AI image recognition and generation.
• The live Meta Connect 2025 cooking demo failed on stage — AI repeated the same instruction and the presenter blamed Wi-Fi.
• Meta employees visibly struggled to operate the Neural Band during a live TV-control demo, accidentally exiting the app.
• The previous generation Meta AI glasses were used within days to build a real-time facial recognition doxxing app.

2025-09-18 · Watch on YouTube