Overview
- Meta’s Summer Sale, which began Thursday, drops Ray-Ban and Oakley AI glasses by up to about 25 percent through May 25–26, with the Gen 2 Wayfarer hitting a new low near $321.
- The Ray-Ban Display platform opened in developer preview Friday, letting teams build apps via a mobile SDK for iOS and Android or lightweight web apps that launch from a URL.
- Meta rolled out Neural Handwriting to all Display users, enabling text input with the Neural Band, along with display recording, wider turn-by-turn directions, and live captions in messaging apps.
- Prescription-first Blayzer and Scriber frames are now sold through LensCrafters, Sunglass Hut, and Meta and Ray-Ban sites, with vision insurance, FSA, or HSA accepted at participating locations.
- Together, lower prices, new inputs, and third-party apps point to a broader push to make the glasses more useful day to day, which could draw more buyers and developers into the ecosystem.