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Home/Tech/Meta's $249 Adventurer AI Glasses Go on Sale With a Plug-In Case
VERIFIEDBy Xavier Rivera·Sunday, October 25, 2026 at 8:17 PM AST·2 min read

Meta's $249 Adventurer AI Glasses Go on Sale With a Plug-In Case

Meta's $249 Adventurer, announced at Connect on Sept. 23, went on sale Oct. 23. It is Meta's cheapest camera glasses and keeps the 12MP camera, 3K video, open-ear audio and Meta AI, but swaps the ~40-hour battery charging case for a plug-in case. On the Oct. 21 earnings call, Zuckerberg said Meta priced its devices "not to make a large profit on the hardware", and that Muse is coming to Meta Glasses "starting next month".

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Meta's $249 Adventurer glasses, announced Sept. 23, went on sale Oct. 23 with a plug-in case, $50 below the $299 starting price. On the Oct. 21 earnings call, Zuckerberg said Meta priced its devices "not to make a large profit on the hardware".

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Meta's $249 Adventurer AI glasses went on sale Oct. 23. Meta announced them at Connect on Sept. 23, and they are the cheapest camera glasses in Meta's lineup.

What Meta says

Meta's newsroom (https://www.meta.com/blog/ray-ban-meta-audio-and-deepest-ai-glasses-lineup/) said: "We're also launching a new Meta Adventurer, featuring a black frame and grey lenses, with a plug-in case starting at $249 USD. It's available for pre-order today on Meta.com and on sale October 23 in all countries where Meta Glasses are sold." Meta calls it "our most affordable pair of Meta Glasses yet." Meta's German and UK stores list EUR259 and GBP229. The $349 Ray-Ban Meta Audio has no camera, per Meta's post.

What is different

This is a new $249 configuration of the existing Adventurer style, not a redesign, and the $299 version is still sold. That is $50 below the $299 starting price, though not like-for-like: Polarized Grey costs $329 and Transitions Grey $379. The $249 pair keeps the 12MP camera, 3K video, open-ear audio and Meta AI, and comes only with a black frame and grey lenses. It swaps the battery charging case for a plug-in case. Meta says only "plug-in case"; the roughly 40 hours of extra battery life for the standard case comes from the June launch. Meta has not said whether the frame hardware matches the June version.
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The earnings-call angle

In prepared remarks on Meta's Oct. 21 earnings call, Mark Zuckerberg said: "Muse is coming to Meta Glasses starting next month, and that will be an important step towards this." He also said: "So we have priced our devices not to make a large profit on the hardware, but to build a large software and superintelligence business on top of them over time." Muse is Meta's personal AI agent, launched Sept. 8. Zuckerberg did not mention the $249 Adventurer or the plug-in case. TheStreet linked the two in its commentary; that is its reading, not Meta's.

Earlier coverage: "Meta Debuts First $299 Own-Brand Smart Glasses" (https://thecircuitry.to/article/meta-debuts-first-299-own-brand-smart-glasses-mqqqfbd5).
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Sources: Meta newsroom (https://www.meta.com/blog/ray-ban-meta-audio-and-deepest-ai-glasses-lineup/); Meta Store (https://www.meta.com/ai-glasses/meta-glasses/adventurer-black-grey-with-plug-in-case/); Meta IR transcript (https://s21.q4cdn.com/399680738/files/content_files/META-Q3-2026-Earnings-Call-Transcript.pdf); TheStreet (https://www.thestreet.com/investing/meta-wants-users-to-pay-249-to-put-ai-on-their-face).
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