Meta Slated to Launch Two New Ray-Ban Smart Glasses, According to FCC Filing

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Meta and EssilorLuxottica appear to be preparing two new Ray-Ban smart glasses for launch, according to US Federal Communication Commission (FCC) filings from earlier this month.

As first reported by Janko Roettgers in his Lowpass newsletter, Meta hardware partner EssilorLuxottica has filed with the FCC two new devices which appear to be the next generation of their Ray-Ban smart glasses.

The FCC filing in question contains the names ‘Ray-Ban Meta Scriber’ and ‘Ray-Ban Meta Blazer’, describing them as “production units”, which could mean launch is fairly close.

Array of Meta smart glasses | Image courtesy Brad Lynch

Typically, FCC filings are one of the last stops before launch, as we saw with the last three hardware generations of Ray-Ban smart glasses, all three of which released less than a month after their respective FCC filings.

The company’s second-gen smart glasses released in 2025 include hardware refreshes of its popular Ray-Ban glasses, as well as Oakley Meta HSTN, Oakley Meta Vanguard, and the $800 Meta Ray-Ban Display glasses—the company’s first smart glasses to include a heads-up display.

As Roettgers points out, the new FCC filings are largely devoid of details or images of the devices, however a charging case was mentioned in testing—an accessory provided with all generations of the companies’ smart glasses.

Model numbers for Blazer and Scriber, respectively RW7001 and RW7002, are also new, which suggests we’re dealing with a new hardware generation.

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Additionally, the devices were tested using the Wi-Fi 6 U-NII-4 band (5.9 GHz). Notably, the company’s latest smart glasses use Wi-Fi 6E (6 GHz), which does not operate in the 5.9 GHz U-NII-4 band.

This comes amid a significant shift in priorities at Reality Labs, Meta’s XR division. In January, the company laid off at least 10 percent of staff at Reality Labs, as the company has doubled down on AI and smart glasses, and reduced spending on first-party VR content.

Meanwhile, the smart glasses segment has been very successful for the Meta-EssilorLuxottica partnership, with the French-Italian eyewear maker revealing earlier this year that it had sold over seven million smart glasses last year, effectively tripling sales from all prior years in 2025 alone.

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Scott Hayden
Well before the first modern XR products hit the market, Scott recognized the potential of the technology and set out to understand and document its growth. He has been professionally reporting on the space for nearly a decade as Editor at Road to VR, authoring more than 4,000 articles on the topic. Scott brings that seasoned insight to his reporting from major industry events across the globe.
  • Tech

    ….so they can record you and your family at home and give the footage for "review" to some 3rd world country. Oh no Meta, never never never.
    With Meta you are the product, even you if you pay hundreds of dollars for their vr goggles or glasses.

    • JanO

      Do you think ANY company is different..

      • Herbert Werters

        Absolutely.

  • Grulk

    I never understand why this is an article for "Road to VR". I understand the Meta connection…. but these glasses are not VR…nor are they XR, MR, or AR.

    • Nevets

      Wrong. For me too, it's 'no display, no interest'. Nevertheless these products form part of the road to VR.

      • Ivan A.

        I think these glasses are covered here because they may be a road to AR someday. These glasses may not have any visual or audio augmentations right now based on where users are and what they are doing in the real world, we still need to see their list of features when they are released to be sure, but they may have these with future versions.

    • VrSLuT

      They have gotten lost on road to VR and now are in some XR ghetto full of perverts with cameras on their faces. Hope you don't need to go to the bathroom where everybody wears those!

      • Grulk

        There are supposedly some safeguards in place, like the blue LED that will activate when recording is taking place. Supposedly, if you cover it up the glasses will stop recording. We'll see. There are always those who will exploit technology for unethical or illegal means….

  • I wonder if they have new features, or are just a refresh

  • οκ

    Maybe Meta just expands the glasses styles with no new hardware. I hope im wrong…

  • Herbert Werters

    Invasion of the privacy invaders.