Meta's New Smart Glasses Lineup: Three Models, Three Price Points, and a Camera-Free Option

Meta introduced its third generation of Ray-Ban smart glasses at Connect Wednesday, alongside a new audio-only model and a privacy-focused "Private Processing" feature — rounding out a three-tier glasses lineup built to bring Muse to people's faces in the coming months.

Three price points, three use cases

Ray-Ban Meta Gen 3 launches today starting at $449, positioned as the flagship of the lineup. Below it, Ray-Ban Meta Audio — a camera-free, display-free, audio-only pair — is available for pre-order now at $349 ahead of an October 13 launch. At the entry point, Meta introduced Adventurer-style smart glasses starting at $249. Together, the three tiers give Meta a full range from a stripped-down audio experience up to its most capable camera-equipped model.

Glasses without cameras, and "Private Processing"

Notably, Meta unveiled smart glasses without cameras as an explicit option — the Ray-Ban Meta Audio model — alongside a new feature called Private Processing. The pairing suggests Meta is directly addressing the privacy concerns that have dogged camera-equipped smart glasses since launch, offering both a hardware option with no camera at all and a processing approach aimed at keeping data handling more contained even on models that do have one.

Muse is coming to all of them

Meta confirmed it is integrating Muse into all of its smart glasses, with the agent arriving "in coming months" without a more specific schedule. The company said the glasses integration is built for conversations about what users are actually looking at — extending Muse's agentic capabilities from a phone screen into a hands-free, always-with-you format, and setting up glasses as the wearable front door to the same shopping, email, and video features Meta announced for Muse more broadly at Connect.