L+R’s October 10 README rewrite marks 33 Meta Ray-Ban Display web demos as working, 10 as dependent on third-party servers, and eight as concepts with simulated data.
Meta Ray-Ban Display reached Germany, France and Italy on October 13, and in Germany it also arrived at a carrier. Telekom sells it for €899, or €796.60 in device payments on MagentaMobil M, but does not list the plan’s own cost.
Unofficial OpenRayneo v0.2.0 puts RayNeo iO’s two mics on macOS as separate Core Audio devices, with no phone relay—and the README keeps the caveats.
Meta has opened three more Meta Lab stores in Scottsdale, Atlanta, and Moynihan Train Hall, bringing the locations named in its running blog post to ten. It still shares no opening dates or sales figures.
Meta’s Wearables Device Access Toolkit caps third-party glasses video at 720×1280 and 30 fps, defaults to 504×896, and says lower settings look better. MetaStream measured 450–600 kbps at 720p30.
An independent browser tool for Even Realities G2 and R1 began publishing 16 official G2 and 12 official R1 firmware images on October 9, excludes custom builds, and warns its case write path has not been validated on sacrificial hardware.
Austria’s Federal Administrative Court overturned the expulsion of a Vienna student who kept wearing Meta glasses in class, finding no evidence of recordings. The directorate has filed an extraordinary appeal, and Minister Christoph Wiederkehr says a law letting individual schools ban the glasses may follow if the case is lost.
Collov Labs put its NewEyes visual AI agent into three pre-order devices on October 12: $199 Sight glasses, a $149 Halo camera earphone, and a $99 Clip pin. Sight’s spec sheet names no camera, Clip’s specs are pending, and no page gives the ship date Collov’s own policy promises.
CDA and PRO asked the Dutch cabinet to raise a public-use ban, and in PRO’s case sales limits, at the October 12-13 informal EU telecom meeting. The Irish presidency’s published programme does not mention smart glasses, and the cabinet has not replied.
Naver says Naver Map walking guidance reaches Ray-Ban Meta and Oakley Meta first, with Google-Samsung Intelligent Eyewear support via Gemini later this year. Android comes first; iOS has no date.