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Jan 21, 2025MW-0013Moving target

Gurman: Some at Meta expected display glasses near $1,000

Mark Gurman reported that some employees expected the display glasses to cost around $1,000.

Mark Gurman reported that some Meta employees working on its display glasses expected them to cost around $1,000, compared with the $299 starting price of the existing Ray-Ban Meta glasses.

How to read this record

  1. What was reportedMark Gurman reported that some employees expected the display glasses to cost around $1,000.
  2. Who said it, and whenMark Gurman reported it on Jan 21, 2025 in TechCrunch.
  3. What happened, and whenMeta Ray-Ban Display was announced on Sep 17, 2025, 239 days after this report.
  4. The verdict, and whyMoving targetThis was right about the plan at the time. The company then changed it.Why: Meta announced Ray-Ban Display at $799 including the Neural Band, below the roughly $1,000 figure employees were reported to expect. The cited TechCrunch article does carry the claim — "The company is also developing a $1,000 pair of smart glasses based on the Ray-Ban Meta's design, with an AR display projected on the bottom portion of the right lens". What the company published
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Wrong
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Moving target
This was right about the plan at the time. The company then changed it.
Never settled
The company has announced the product and nobody ever confirmed or denied this.
Not comparable
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Moving target
A moving target is a report that described the plan accurately at the time, on a product the company then changed. We count these on their own: it would flatter a reporter to call them right, and it would blame a reporter for a decision that was not theirs to call them wrong.
Reported by
Mark Gurman
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TechCrunch
Product
Meta Ray-Ban Display · reported as “Ray-Ban Display”
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The story of this report

  1. Jan 21, 2025Mark Gurman reported it · TechCrunch
  2. Sep 17, 2025Meta Ray-Ban Display was announced · official source
  3. VerdictMoving targetWhat it means, and why, is in the box above.

Who reported it

Mark Gurman · Journalist

187 reports in the Reporting Record. Of the 57 we have checked, 49 held up. The other 130 are not part of that number: 2 moving target, 20 never settled, 9 not comparable, 99 no outcome yet.

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What we know now

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Questions about this report

Did this Meta Ray-Ban Display report turn out to be true?
Moving target. This was right about the plan at the time. The company then changed it. Meta announced Ray-Ban Display at $799 including the Neural Band, below the roughly $1,000 figure employees were reported to expect. The cited TechCrunch article does carry the claim — "The company is also developing a $1,000 pair of smart glasses based on the Ray-Ban Meta's design, with an AR display projected on the bottom portion of the right lens".
Who reported it first?
Mark Gurman reported it on Jan 21, 2025 in TechCrunch.
How far ahead of the announcement was it?
That was 239 days before Meta Ray-Ban Display was announced on Sep 17, 2025.