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Meta Launches Ray-Ban Smart Glasses With Display & Neural Band

The company’s latest wearable adds a display for apps and alerts, paired with a Neural Band wrist controller. Launch is set for September 30 at $799.

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Meta has revealed a new pair of Ray-Ban branded smart glasses featuring a built-in display and a wristband controller that reads hand gestures. CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced the device, called Meta Ray-Ban Display, at the Meta Connect 2025 conference, confirming it will go on sale September 30 for $799.

The glasses display apps, alerts and directions directly on the right lens. Control comes via the Meta Neural Band, a wristband using electromyography (EMG) to detect signals between the brain and hand during small movements. The band resembles a screenless Fitbit, offers 18 hours of battery life, and is water resistant.

Meta is pitching the device as its strongest consumer push so far toward hardware that doesn’t depend on Google’s or Apple’s ecosystems. While the company has invested heavily in VR, it now sees AI-powered smart glasses as a more direct way to reach users.

The Ray-Ban Display builds on Meta’s earlier smart glasses, developed with eyewear partner EssilorLuxottica, which have sold in the millions. Like those models, the new glasses include an AI assistant, plus cameras, speakers and microphones. The addition of a display broadens what the glasses can do: users can access Meta apps such as Instagram, WhatsApp and Facebook, see directions and live translations.

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Reports of the device surfaced earlier this week after a leak, with media outlets noting its internal codename Hypernova. The product is notably less advanced than Meta’s Orion prototype shown at Connect 2024, which featured full AR lenses and eye tracking. That device remains years away from consumer release.

Zuckerberg argued the advantage lies in being first to ship something consumers can actually buy, even if competitors like Apple and Google are expected to follow with their own smart glasses. Tight integration with existing mobile operating systems could give those rivals a significant edge despite Meta’s early move.

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A Three-Clinic Network Bets Dubai Is Ready For Longevity Medicine

Longevium has enlisted nearly 100 clinicians and created an AI platform in a bid to sell biological-age tracking as a medicine, not a wellness service.

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Dubai has been busily creating the scaffolding for a longevity industry, including a dedicated regulatory authority and a health market deep enough to sustain it. Now the clinics are arriving.

Longevium, a longevity clinic network, has opened three locations across the city: a flagship at Triple Seven Mall on Jumeirah 3, and branches in Jumeirah Lake Towers and Jumeirah Village Circle. Together they house a multidisciplinary team of nearly 100 physicians and specialists offering what the company bills as “a measurable medical system for longevity”.

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The pitch is that longevity medicine should look less like a wellness menu and more like continuous clinical care. Each patient’s biological age assessment, laboratory results, body composition, cardiovascular risk factors, metabolic markers, and lifestyle data feed into a single profile, with a proprietary AI platform helping physicians track progress and adjust protocols against the patient’s own biomarkers.

“Healthy aging must be approached clinically through diagnostics, biomarkers, physician supervision, longitudinal tracking, and protocols tailored to the individual,” said Dr. Ksenia Butova, Longevium’s founder and CEO. “Our goal is to help patients understand their health trajectory before disease develops, and then actively change that trajectory”.

The treatment list spans peptide-based protocols, exosome therapies, stem cell approaches, GLP-1 metabolic optimization, hormone balance programs, cardiovascular prevention, and regenerative aesthetics — a model built for the entrepreneurs, executives, and international patients the clinic says want measurable results rather than generic wellness. A signature offering, Longevity Day, compresses biomarker testing, ultrasound and vascular imaging, specialist consultations, IV therapy, and a personalized optimization roadmap into a single three-hour visit.

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“Here, longevity, biotechnology, AI, prevention, and regenerative medicine are converging into a single ecosystem,” said Butova. “This is why Longevium was built in Dubai, and why we believe the UAE can become a global reference point for longevity medicine”.

The emirate established the Dubai Longevity Authority in 2026 to oversee its longevity, wellness, and advanced health sectors, and the Dubai Health Authority reported insured beneficiaries exceeding 4.9 million in 2025, up around 6.5%, with insurance claims reaching approximately 49.6 million, up around 13.5%.

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