Ray-Ban Meta: How to Join the Early Access Beta Program

Quick summary: Meta’s early access program gets you new features on your Ray-Ban Meta or Oakley Meta glasses before everyone else. It’s a beta, though, so you might run into bugs with the glasses or the app. If you’re fine with that, here’s how to sign up.

Step by step

1. Open the early access sign-up page on Meta’s site (meta.com/ai-glasses/early-access-program). It asks for your glasses’ serial number so you can join the waitlist.
2. Find your serial number: open the Meta AI app, tap the glasses at the bottom right, tap the gear in the top right, then go to General > About. Use the number labeled Serial number, not the case serial number.
3. Enter it on the website and tap Join waitlist.
4. Turn on Share additional data: in the app, go to Device settings > Glasses privacy and make sure Share additional data is on. You need this to be in the program.
5. Wait a day or two. An Early access tab shows up in the app. That’s also where you go to leave early access later.

What to expect

Being in early access doesn’t mean you get an update right away. I’d been in the program for months and hadn’t gotten one yet when I made this video. When a beta update does come, the app tells you it’s an early access update and asks you to install it.

Get the glasses

• Ray-Ban Meta glasses from Meta