# Ray-Ban Meta Glasses Now Launch Walking Directions By Voice

Source: https://idevice.com/ray-ban-meta-glasses-now-launch-walking-directions-by-voice
Published: 2026-08-31

> Firmware 128 brings the display model's navigation to glasses without a screen, in the US, Puerto Rico, Canada and select cities.

[Ray-Ban Meta glasses](https://idevice.com/smart-glasses/meta-ray-ban/roadmap) can now start walking directions on a voice command. Version 128 of Meta's smart glasses firmware adds turn-by-turn walking navigation to the pairs that have no display, so "Hey Meta, navigate to Times Square" runs the whole thing from your face. Meta lists the U.S., Puerto Rico, Canada and select cities.

Until this update there was no way to start navigation from the glasses at all. You opened a third-party app on your phone, turned directions on inside it, and let the audio come through to the glasses over Bluetooth. The alternative was speaking to Siri or Google Assistant on the phone instead. Both routes begin with taking the phone out.

The [Meta Ray-Ban Display](https://idevice.com/smart-glasses/ray-ban-display/roadmap), the only pair with a screen in it, has been able to launch walking directions from the glasses already, in the cities where the feature is supported. Version 128 moves that down the line to the pairs that cost less and show you nothing, where the directions arrive as sound and nothing else. The city restriction travels with it.

Spatial audio arrived in the same release. It uses AI to add a sense of three-dimensional space to sound that is already in stereo, and it does not switch itself on. You go into settings, choose audio, and toggle it there. The effect rests entirely on the processing, and a poor version of it makes ordinary music sound slightly worse instead of better.

Neither feature needs new hardware. Both arrive as firmware on glasses already sold, and a version number is the only thing about the product that changed.

Gizmodo reported the update, and Meta's own wording for where the navigation works is "select cities", with no list attached to it. An owner in Canada therefore knows the country is covered and knows nothing about their street. The U.S. and Puerto Rico carry the same caveat.