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Yesterday, the world got its first look at the most innovative, most exciting, and most dystopian tech product of 2025, the $799 Ray-Ban sunglasses that lets you live life like a fighter pilot with a full-color heads-up display.

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And not only that, but it can practically read your mind thanks to this thing called the Meta Neural Band, which is a bracelet that measures movement before it's even visually perceptible.

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A product this terrifying could only be conceived by one man, Mark Zuckerberg, who demoed them at MetaConnect 2025.

The presentation was truly impressive at times, but not everything went according to plan.

This could go down in history as one of the biggest live demo fails since Elon tried to demo the bulletproof glass of the Cybertruck.

In today's video, we'll look at the incredible tech behind Meta's new half-baked Ray-Bans and find out what it'll be like to interact with fellow humans in the future.

It is September 18th, 2025, and you're watching The Code Report.

When Meta released its AI smart glasses last year, the first thing people did was develop an app to dox people in real time by connecting its real-time video feed to facial recognition software.

This has allowed men to optimize the way they talk to women by knowing all their personal details in advance.

That's awesome, but these new Meta Ray-Ban display glasses represent a breakthrough in three key areas.

First, it has a full-color, high-resolution, 600x600 pixel display positioned in the right lens.

The display is translucent and doesn't obstruct the wearer's natural vision.

That means when your parents call you in for an important conversation to get a job and move out of their basement, you can maintain eye contact while still getting all of your important Instagram notifications.

The second innovation in these new Ray-Bans is just the sheer amount of AI slot packed into the device.

They're much bulkier than regular Wayfarers, but have a 6-hour battery life and allow you to do things like translate conversations in real time to any language.

They can recognize images in the real world, and also respond with new images generated by AI.

One real-world use case for this feature is that it could turn any modern wife into a trad wife by leveling up her cooking skills.

At MetaConnect, they attempted to live demo it cooking, but it failed hard.

You've already combined the base ingredients, so now grate a pear to add to the sauce.

Alright, I think the Wi-Fi might be messed up.

They tried to play it off as a Wi-Fi problem, but clearly the problem is that the AI here just isn't very intelligent.

The third and most impressive innovation though is the Meta Neural Band, a wristband that comes with every pair of display glasses.

It uses electromyography technology to sense tiny electrical signals in your wrist that correspond to the way you move your hands.

This thing can actually detect how your hands are going to move before the movement even  It completely replaces old-fashioned touchscreens on antique devices like the iPhone, because everything can now be controlled with subtle finger movements.

What's most impressive is that it works universally on all humans without calibration, the only exception being humans with no arms.

That amazing feat was achieved by testing it on over 200,000 participants, but is this approach actually intuitive from a UI-UX perspective?

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As you can see, even Meta employees seem to struggle using it.

But despite these live demo failures, you have to give Meta some credit for having the balls to demo it live.

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This has been The Code Report, thanks for watching, and I will see you in the next one.