Meta has delayed the worldwide rollout of its show glasses

Meta is pausing launch of its Ray-Ban Show sensible glasses to the UK, France, Italy and Canada attributable to “unprecedented demand and restricted stock,” the corporate mentioned on Monday at CES 2026. There is not any new date for the enlargement that was initially set for early 2026. “We’ll proceed to concentrate on fulfilling orders within the US whereas we re-evaluate our method to worldwide availability,” Meta wrote on its weblog.

Since Meta’s show glasses first went on sale, buying them has been a problem. They don’t seem to be obtainable on-line and may solely be present in a restricted variety of shops together with choose Ray-Ban, Sunglass Hut, LensCrafters and Finest Purchase areas in the US. To purchase them, it is advisable e-book an appointment for a demo at one these shops through Meta’s web site. Forward of launch, Meta mentioned it noticed “robust” demand for demos with areas booked forward for a number of weeks.

There was optimism that availability would improve as the corporate anticipated shopping for choices to “develop” the longer they had been on sale. Nonetheless, with the delay of the deliberate worldwide launch, it seems that the corporate nonetheless has a mismatch between provide and demand.

Meta’s $799 Ray-Ban Show glasses are its first to include a heads-up show and are additionally outfitted with a digital camera, stereo audio system, six microphones, WiFi 6 and a finger monitoring Neural Band controller. In her overview, Engadget’s senior reporter Karissa Bell famous that the Ray-Ban show “allows wearers to do way more than what’s at the moment doable with [other] Ray-Ban or Oakley fashions” — offered you do not thoughts the look of the chunky, chunky frames.