Can you FaceTime with Meta glasses? What video calls actually support.

Can you FaceTime with Meta glasses?

Not in the way most people mean. The feature people want, where the person on the call sees the view from your glasses instead of your face, is what Meta calls sharing your view. Meta’s help article for it names three apps: Messenger, WhatsApp and Instagram. FaceTime is not among them, and Meta’s longer calling and messaging article does not mention FaceTime at all (both checked September 30, 2026).

So on a FaceTime video call, the picture comes from your iPhone’s camera, as it always does. What Meta does document is phone calls: you can connect your iPhone or Android phone in the Meta AI app and place calls by voice through the glasses, with the glasses as the speaker and microphone. Whether FaceTime audio specifically plays through the glasses is not something Meta addresses, and we have not tested Meta’s glasses ourselves, so treat any claim either way as something to try on your own phone.

Which apps support video calls on Meta glasses

This is everything Meta’s own pages list for calling on its glasses, by app, as of September 30, 2026. “Your view” means the glasses camera streams into the call.

The Ray-Ban Meta Gen 2 and Gen 3 product pages both advertise taking video calls hands-free, and the Gen 3 page adds that WhatsApp, Facebook, Instagram or a native messaging app is required for certain features. If your circle lives on FaceTime, that is the real limit: the people you call need one of the three supported apps for the view-sharing to work. For a wider look at what the glasses do beyond calls, see what Meta glasses do.

How to start a WhatsApp video call on Meta glasses

The steps below are assembled from Meta’s two help articles. The same flow applies to Messenger and Instagram.

1. Connect the app once. In the Meta AI app, tap Glasses, then Device settings, choose your glasses, tap Communication, and tap Connect next to WhatsApp. Our Meta glasses app guide covers the app itself.
2. Start or answer a video call.Start a WhatsApp video call on your phone as usual, or answer an incoming one; “Hey Meta, answer” works hands-free. Saying “Hey Meta, call [name] on WhatsApp” places a call by voice, though Meta’s page does not say whether that starts it as a video call.
3. Switch to your glasses’ view. During the video call, tap the Glasses button in the app. The other person now sees what your glasses camera sees.
4. Flip views when you need to. Double-press the capture button on the glasses to switch between the glasses camera and the phone camera.
5. Go hands-free.Lock your phone; Meta says the glasses keep sharing your view. Say “Hey Meta” followed by Mute, Unmute, Camera on, Camera off, Hang up or End call.
6. End the call. Double-tap the touchpad, or hang up on the phone.

Two notes from Meta’s page: carrier charges may apply when you connect your phone, and emergency calls must be started from the phone itself, not from the glasses.

What the other person sees on a Meta glasses video call

With Ray-Ban Meta, Oakley Meta and Meta Glasses, the other person sees your point of view: the street you are walking down, the shelf you are standing in front of, the child taking a first step. They do not see your face while the glasses view is on, and you do not see them, because those glasses have no screen. You hear them through the open-ear speakers, and they hear you through the frame’s microphones; the Gen 2 page lists five built-in microphones.

Meta Ray-Ban Display, Meta’s $799 glasses with a screen in one lens, goes further. Its product page describes two-way video calling in which you see the other person on your display while they see the world through your eyes, on WhatsApp, Messenger and Instagram. It is still not FaceTime.

A courtesy point that applies to any camera on your face: when you share your view, the people around you are on the call too. Tell them, and follow the recording and privacy rules where you are.

Zoom calls, Google Meet and using Meta glasses as a webcam

Two of the most common questions about smart glasses video calls are about work tools. On Meta’s pages, the answer is the same for both: not documented. Zoom, Google Meet and Microsoft Teams are not among the apps that can take your glasses’ view, and Meta does not describe a webcam mode for connecting the glasses to a computer. Meta also does not say whether the audio from those apps plays through the glasses; on many phones a connected Bluetooth headset does carry call audio, but check it before an important meeting rather than finding out during one. If clear voice on calls is the actual goal, our guide to phone calls on smart glasses covers what the microphones do in wind and noise, and when earbuds are still the better tool.

Battery: how long a video call lasts on Meta glasses

Meta does not publish a video-call runtime for any of its glasses. The figures it does publish are for typical use: up to 8 hours on a single charge for Ray-Ban Meta Gen 2, 19 hours in standby and up to 48 more hours from the charging case. Streaming the camera into a live call is about as far from typical use as these glasses get, so plan for considerably less than the headline figure, and keep the case within reach if a call might run long. Switching to the phone camera with a double-press, or saying “Hey Meta, camera off”, is the obvious way to stretch a call that only needs your view for a moment. Every published Meta runtime, model by model, is in our Meta glasses battery life guide.

Calls on OXIVUE frames: voice yes, live video no

We make camera-and-audio glasses from $149, and the honest answer for our frames is simpler than Meta’s: they do voice calls, not video calls. Each frame pairs with your phone over Bluetooth 5.4 and acts as a headset. The caller plays through the open-ear speakers in the temples and your voice goes through the microphones in the frame, because the call itself stays on your phone. The 8 MP camera captures photos and clips to the free HeyCyan app; it is not listed as a video source for calls, so on a FaceTime, WhatsApp or Zoom video call the other person sees your phone or laptop camera.

The M14 is the one built around calls: its battery is split toward talking rather than music, and it adds a bone-conduction microphone for wind. The M08C is the office pick, a metal-trim frame with 4 hours of calls. None of our frames has a display, none takes prescription lenses, and the HeyCyan app needs a free sign-up but no Meta or social-media account and no subscription. Every spec is side by side on the comparison page. OXIVUE does not offer refunds except for damage in transit; faults are covered by a 2-year warranty, repair or replace. If live point-of-view video calls are the feature you need, Meta’s glasses on WhatsApp, Messenger or Instagram are the ones that do it.

Bottom line

You can’t FaceTime with Meta glasses in the way that matters: FaceTime is not one of the apps that can show your glasses’ view, and Meta’s pages don’t mention it. Point-of-view video calls work on WhatsApp, Messenger and Instagram, started from the phone app with a tap on Glasses, and only Meta Ray-Ban Display lets you see the other person too. If what you really need is hands-free voice on calls with a camera for photos and clips, the OXIVUE M14 at $199 is rated for 7 hours of calls with a bone-conduction mic for wind, and the M08C at $169 gives 4 hours in a frame that suits the office (currently $50 off one pair at checkout, applied automatically).

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