Ray-Ban Meta glasses: setup & the parts that matter.
AI glasses sound gimmicky until the right features click. Here is how to set up Ray-Ban Meta glasses and the handful of daily uses that make them worth wearing.
01Get set up
- Pair the glasses with the Meta AI / companion app on your phone and sign in.
- Enable "Hey Meta" voice activation and grant camera, mic, and notification permissions.
- If you have the Display model and Neural Band, pair the band and run the gesture calibration.
- Connect messaging and music apps so you can use them hands-free.
Look-and-ask vision ("what am I looking at?"), hands-free messages and calls, capture without your phone, music control, and on the Display, glanceable info — directions, messages, captions — in your field of view.
02Just say "Hey Meta"
Start with "Hey Meta," then you can interrupt and follow up without repeating the wake word — a real back-and-forth. That conversational flow, plus the camera already pointed where you look, is what makes the assistant feel different on glasses than on a phone.
At Meta Connect 2026, Meta previewed a wake word that will bring Muse — its personal AI agent, not the assistant covered on this page — to glasses for things like guided workouts, meal logging, appointment booking and shopping. Meta says "coming months," with no date yet. See the Muse agent lesson for what it already does on your phone.