Meta Fury

Meta Fury is a pair of camera-equipped AI glasses with a thick, square frame, sold in Meta's own-brand Meta Glasses line and made with the eyewear group EssilorLuxottica. Meta announced it on 23 June 2026 and put it on sale the same day from $299, together with the Meta Adventurer and a Kylie Jenner design that Meta's store now lists as the Meta Starfire Kylie Edition ^[1][2][4]. In its launch post Meta gave the Fury a one-line description, "A bold frame that makes a bold statement" ^[1]; the store's comparison page calls it a "striking square frame with thick rims and a customizable fit" ^[4]. The Fury has a 12-megapixel camera, open-ear speakers and six microphones but no display ^[3][4]. In the US and Canada its Meta AI assistant has used Muse Spark, the first model built by Meta Superintelligence Labs, since launch day ^[1]. At 59.9 grams by Meta's figure, the Fury is the heaviest of the three launch frames in Android Central's specification table, and Engadget's reviewer counted the weight among its drawbacks ^[3][11][12]. A limited-edition clear version, announced at Meta Connect 2026, is sold only in Meta's Meta Lab stores ^[3][19].

Announcement and release

Meta Glasses launched on 23 June 2026 as a joint line from Meta and EssilorLuxottica that keeps the technology of Ray-Ban Meta without the Ray-Ban name ^[1][5]. It started with three frames and 26 styles across colors, lenses and frames ^[1]. According to Engadget, Ming Hua, Meta's vice president of wearable devices, said the line was built on "the same hardware platform as our best-selling AI glasses" ^[8]. Gizmodo reported that chief technology officer Andrew Bosworth told the press that dropping the Ray-Ban name was about lowering prices and giving buyers more options ^[10], and Bosworth told Android Central that EssilorLuxottica still builds the glasses ^[9].

From launch day the Fury could be bought at Meta.com and in Meta's own Meta Lab stores, as well as from Amazon, Best Buy, LensCrafters, Sunglass Hut and other retailers ^[1][2]. A footnote in Meta's blog post named 17 launch countries: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the UK and the US ^[2]. On 23 July 2026 Meta amended its newsroom post to say that the Muse Spark version of Meta AI was available on Meta Glasses from day one in the US and Canada and would reach other markets over time ^[1].

Launch coverage defined the Fury mostly against the Adventurer. TechCrunch called it "boxier, resembling popular styles of men's glasses" ^[6]. MacRumors wrote that it shares the Adventurer's Wayfarer-like silhouette "but is thicker" ^[7], UploadVR described it as "taller and thus more square" ^[5], and Engadget's Cherlynn Low wrote that the Fury is "a bit more full, square" than the Adventurer and comes in more colors ^[8].

Design

The Fury comes in one size, which Meta calls Standard, with a high-bridge fit ^[3][4]. Meta's specification sheet gives it a width of 131 mm from hinge to hinge, lenses 51 mm wide and 41 mm tall, a 22 mm bridge and 150 mm temples, and lists the frame material as "Injected" ^[3]. Android Central called the Fury the thickest of the three launch frames ^[9].

Like the other Meta Glasses frames, the Fury has three-way adjustable nose pads, adjustable temple tips and overextension hinges, which MacRumors said let the arms flare out slightly for wider heads ^[2][7]. Meta's store FAQ describes the nose pads as having "15° of adjustment and 3 cranks" ^[3], and Android Central reported that the temple arms move 5 degrees inward and outward ^[9]. The Fury is sold in four frame colors: Classic Black, Mahogany, Racing Green and Sandstone ^[3]. Android Central described the green and Sandstone frames as transparent options with "a more techy look" ^[11], and Gizmodo reviewed a semi-transparent Racing Green pair ^[10].

Gizmodo noticed one design difference that matters for bystanders. The camera sits behind a round cutout on the left of the frame and the capture LED behind one on the right, and both cutouts are smaller than on Ray-Ban Meta glasses even though the camera sensor is the same, which makes them harder to spot ^[10].

The Fury ships with the foldable charging case that comes with most Meta Glasses; only the Adventurer in black with grey lenses has a plug-in case instead ^[3]. Android Central described the foldable case as a design taken from the Meta Ray-Ban Display case, with a detachable soft outer layer that can be swapped for different styles ^[9]. Meta lists the case at 203 grams, sells it separately for $89, and offers it in Black, Mocha, Forest, Cream and Driftwood ^[3]. Engadget's Karissa Bell found the flat case less elegant than the classic Ray-Ban case but preferred it because it fits more easily into small bags ^[12].

Hardware

Meta does not name the Fury's processor, and its specification sheet has no chipset row ^[3][4]. UploadVR reported at launch that the frames have "the same chipset, camera, speakers, battery, storage, and connectivity as the Ray-Ban Meta Gen 2 glasses" ^[5]. Android Central reported instead that Meta Glasses use the upgraded chipset that first appeared in Meta Ray-Ban Display, though in its testing the only practical gain was slightly faster Meta AI conversations ^[9][11]. At launch MacRumors reported that the glasses kept the five-microphone array of the Ray-Ban Meta (Gen 2) ^[7], but Meta's specification sheet lists a six-microphone system, with two microphones on the nose pads, two on the temple arm and two on the front of the frame ^[3].

VR & AR Wiki's Meta Fury article lists the full hardware specifications.

Android Central's comparison table listed the Fury's speakers at 77.55 dB against 76.1 dB for the Adventurer and Starfire ^[11]. The prescription range is narrower than on Ray-Ban models: Meta lists -12.00 to +6.00 for Ray-Ban Meta (Gen 3), and Android Central noted that Meta Glasses accept a narrower range than Ray-Ban Meta (Gen 2) and Oakley Meta HSTN ^[4][11]. At launch Meta.com itself filled prescriptions only from -6 to +2.25. The same launch post introduced Rx Lens Swap, under which an optician of the buyer's choosing can fit prescription lenses after purchase while the warranty stays valid ^[2].

Meta AI and Muse Spark

Meta announced Muse Spark on 8 April 2026 as "the first in a new series of large language models built by Meta Superintelligence Labs," and began rolling it out to Ray-Ban Meta and Oakley Meta glasses in the US and Canada in May ^[17]. Meta Glasses were the first of its glasses to launch with it, and Meta promised smarter answers from the assistant and a better grasp of what the wearer is seeing ^[1]. Gizmodo noted that Meta AI had previously run on Llama 4 ^[10].

On the Fury, Meta AI is reached by saying "Hey Meta" or by pressing the action button on top of the right arm, which starts a conversation by default ^[3][9]. In the Meta AI app the button can be reassigned to capture modes such as hyperlapse, slow motion or autocapture, to a music app, to live translation, or to Be My Eyes, an accessibility service that calls a sighted volunteer who can see through the glasses' camera ^[9][10]. Meta's store lists answers "based on what you see and say," local recommendations drawn from reviews, hands-free calls, video calls on WhatsApp, Instagram and Messenger that share the wearer's view, live location sharing, and a "Music match" feature powered by Spotify ^[3]. Its comparison page also lists voice integration with Apple Music, Amazon Music, Audible and Shazam ^[4].

Gizmodo's James Pero tested Muse Spark on the Fury in June 2026. Asking the glasses to call the number on a sign worked, as did asking for reviews of a restaurant he was looking at; in his garden the assistant correctly identified a banana pepper and a tomato plant, and its answers about plant health appeared correct when he checked them ^[10]. Walking directions were weaker. The assistant misheard place names and addresses, and navigation requests were handed to his phone, where a notification opened Maps ^[10]. Pero also had the impression that Muse Spark kept the camera active for longer stretches than the older Llama 4 assistant did ^[10].

Live translation on Meta Glasses covers 20 languages ^[2]. Meta's help page says six of them (English, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese and German) work offline once a language pack is downloaded, while the other 14 need Wi-Fi or mobile data ^[14]. Meta's November 2025 behind-the-scenes post on the feature, written about Ray-Ban Meta, said that translation ran entirely on the glasses, from transcription through machine translation to synthesized speech, and that the team had cut latency from more than five seconds to 2.7 seconds ^[15]. Android Central reported that the 14 languages added in June 2026, which include Japanese, Mandarin, Hindi and Korean, rely on cloud processing ^[9]. Meta's engineering team describes a similar split for the glasses' on-device AI in general: requests such as placing a call or answering a text are handled entirely on the device, while more advanced features need AI models far larger than a pair of glasses can hold, so that work has to run in Meta's cloud ^[18].

Conversation Focus, which amplifies the voices of people the wearer is facing, appears in Meta's v26 release notes for Ray-Ban Meta, Oakley Meta and Meta Glasses ^[13], but the feature's own help page says it is not available on Meta Glasses ^[16].

Software updates

As of 15 October 2026, v26 was still the newest entry on Meta's AI glasses release notes page ^[13].

Announcements at Connect 2026

Meta plans to let wearers reach Muse, the personal AI agent it released earlier in September 2026, through its AI glasses. Announcing the plan at Connect on 23 September, the company's round-up gave the timing as "in the coming months," and none of Meta's posts named the models that would get it ^[20][21]. Wearers would call the agent by name and ask it to act on what they are looking at, such as a product on a shelf or a flier on a wall, and it would keep working in the background and report back ^[20][21]. Meta's examples included booking appointments, checking flight prices, guiding workouts, logging meals and buying products the wearer sees ^[21]. UploadVR noted that Mark Zuckerberg said "in the coming weeks" on stage and Bosworth said "soon," and that the agent itself runs in a cloud virtual machine ^[22].

Hearing enhancement is software that Meta says has FDA clearance for adults "with perceived mild to moderate hearing loss." It is due in the US later in 2026; owners of "supported AI glasses" can add it for $149.99, and Meta One subscribers get it as part of their plan ^[20]. Meta did not list the supported models, but Engadget reported that Meta Glasses would get the feature before the third-generation Ray-Ban Meta and Ray-Ban Meta Audio, and The Next Web also wrote that it would come to Meta Glasses first ^[23][24]. Meta's glasses post also listed Dolby Atmos video capture, a landscape crop mode, audio balance and mono audio, and richer answers when users ask what they are looking at, which Meta said drew on feedback from the blind and low-vision community ^[21]. The same post promised to bring Private Processing, Meta's confidential computing system, to AI glasses to deliver "rich AI experiences without anyone, including Meta, seeing your data," without giving a date ^[18][21].

Editions and pricing

The Fury launched in seven frame and lens combinations. The seven that UploadVR listed on 24 June 2026, which it priced at $300, $330 and $380, were the same seven on Meta's US store on 15 October 2026 ^[3][5].

Sources: ^[3][5]

Meta's Mix & Match program, introduced at Connect, lets shoppers pair a frame with their own pick of lenses and case color. The newsroom version of the announcement extended it to every Meta Glasses frame, ordered online or in a Meta Lab, but Meta's Connect round-up called it a US program ^[19][20].

Fury Clear Limited Edition

The clear edition was announced in Meta's Connect newsroom post of 23 September 2026, which also introduced two new frame shapes, the Meta Capri and Meta Nova ^[19]. According to that post, the edition "features a clear frame and mirrored lenses and will be available exclusively at Connect and Meta Labs at launch" ^[19]. Meta's lineup blog post used the same description ^[27], and the Connect round-up said it "will only be available in Meta Lab locations at launch" ^[20]. No price was announced, as MIXED pointed out ^[25]. Meta's own pages later disagreed on the lenses. By 15 October 2026 the FAQ on Meta's US Fury page called the product the Meta Fury Clear Limited Edition and described "a transparent frame with clear lenses," with the edition "exclusively available in Meta Lab stores for a limited time" ^[3]. The same FAQ says Meta Lab stores will not fit it with prescription lenses, although an optician can ^[3].

Prices by market

Meta's regional stores showed the following starting prices for the Fury on 15 and 16 October 2026 ^[3][29].

In Japan the polarized version cost ¥56,100 and the Transitions versions ¥64,900; in the UK the standard, polarized and Transitions versions cost £269, £299 and £339 ^[29].

Availability

After the 17-country launch, Meta Glasses went on sale in Japan on 26 August 2026 through Meta.com and authorized retailers, starting at ¥50,600 including tax, with the Fury among the three frames ^[26][30]. Sales opened in Singapore, South Korea, Mexico and the United Arab Emirates on 23 September 2026, according to Meta's newsroom post, which named Brazil as the next market; Meta's Connect round-up instead grouped the UAE with Brazil as "coming soon" ^[19][20]. On the same day Meta said prescription orders on Meta.com had opened in Canada ^[27]; the FAQ on the US Fury page still said prescription pairs could be bought directly from Meta.com only in the US ^[3]. On 15 October 2026 that FAQ listed 22 countries where Meta Glasses could be bought: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Mexico, the Netherlands, Norway, Singapore, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom and the United States ^[3].

Reception

Engadget's Karissa Bell scored Meta Glasses 8 out of 10 on 20 July 2026 after testing a Fury "in tortoiseshell with transition lenses" ^[12]. She described the Fury as "a chunkier, oversized square style" and wrote: "At 60 grams, they're noticeably heavier than the Ray-Ban Optics frames with prescription lenses I recently reviewed" ^[12]. She also found "a noticeable ridge that runs almost the entire length of each arm" that pressed on her head after a few hours, and said the frames left "pretty deep dents" on the sides of her nose after long wear ^[12]. Against Meta's claim of more than eight hours, she got "closer to four and a half hours on a charge if I was listening to music pretty consistently" ^[12]. She found that Muse Spark had made Meta AI "a smoother and more capable assistant," listed "The 'Fury' style is heavy" among the cons, and concluded that the line offered the latest specifications "for at least $80 less" than Ray-Ban models and was "a great value" ^[12]. Her cons list also included rate-limited features that require an AI subscription, and in the review she named Conversation Focus, which then needed a paid Meta One plan after three hours a month ^[12]. Engadget reported on 25 July 2026 that Meta had paused that limit ^[28], and Meta's help center lists Conversation Focus as unavailable on Meta Glasses ^[16].

Gizmodo's James Pero gave the Fury 3.5 out of 5 on 29 June 2026, summing it up as "Meta's cheapest and best smart glasses yet," held back by privacy concerns ^[10]. He found the frame as comfortable as earlier Ray-Ban Meta glasses during hour-long sessions despite its size, liked the Racing Green color and the extra nose pad adjustment, and called Muse Spark a clear improvement over the previous assistant ^[10]. His cons were the harder-to-spot camera and Meta's privacy record ^[10].

Android Central's Nicholas Sutrich called the Fury "an intentionally thicker style" and wrote that Meta Glasses in general "start to feel heavy after about half an hour" ^[11]. He found no differences in battery life or photo and video quality compared with Meta's 2025 glasses, and recommended the line to buyers who did not need a particular Ray-Ban or Oakley style or a wider prescription range ^[11].

Privacy

Gizmodo's review spent much of its length on privacy. Pero pointed to reporting that photos and videos captured with the "Hey Meta" command are used to train Meta's AI and are sent to people for review, and to reports that Meta was exploring facial recognition for its glasses, issues that sit within the wider debate over smart glasses privacy ^[10]. He argued that the Fury's smaller camera and LED cutouts make recording harder for bystanders to notice and that the LED indicator is "easy to miss" ^[10]. Android Central reported that an early July 2026 update for all Meta glasses disables the camera permanently if the LED is tampered with ^[11]. Meta's launch materials describe settings that let wearers control what they share, along with "built-in safeguards to respect the privacy of people around you" ^[1].

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