A new limited edition Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses will launch later this month, but what will they look like?

A close-up glimpse of the upcoming Ray-Ban Meta special edition shows the Ray-Ban logo over a semi-transparent design
(Image credit: Meta)

Meta’s smart glasses will soon be getting a new but limited look. Meta will launch a special edition version of the Ray-Ban smart glasses, the company has revealed in a teaser. The early look comes with a close-up look at the glasses that seems to suggest a semi-transparent design, following a similar special edition look.

The official Ray-Ban Meta teaser doesn’t reveal much, but it does indicate that a special edition pair of the camera glasses will launch sometime in March. The teaser also says the special edition is “straight from the runway,” suggesting a fashion-forward design.

But, one of the close-up glimpses in the teaser says 0001/3600, suggesting a limited edition run of only about 3,600 pairs. As Tech Radar points out, that’s less than the previous special edition pair that cost about $100 more than the original version but had a 7,500 pair limit.

The other close-up glimpse suggests that at least part of the design could be semi-transparent, with a glimpse of the Ray-Ban logo at the corner and a glimpse of the underlying technology inside.

Meta didn’t give a specific launch date outside of “March,” but has an email notification sign-up on the Ray-Ban Meta website.

The smart glasses category arguably got a slow start, but new AI tools allow the wearer to ask questions about what they see. Another popular use for the glasses among photographers is for recording behind-the-scenes footage without setting up a second camera.

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Hillary K. Grigonis
US Editor

With more than a decade of experience writing about cameras and technology, Hillary K. Grigonis leads the US coverage for Digital Camera World. Her work has appeared in Business Insider, Digital Trends, Pocket-lint, Rangefinder, The Phoblographer, and more. Her wedding and portrait photography favors a journalistic style. She’s a former Nikon shooter and a current Fujifilm user, but has tested a wide range of cameras and lenses across multiple brands. Hillary is also a licensed drone pilot.

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