The name, quietly, in your ear.
Vela lives in a pair of Meta Ray-Ban glasses. When someone you know comes into view, she tells you who they are. For people who live on their own and want to keep it that way.
Vela, in your ear“That’s Diego, your grandson.”
How it works
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Introduce them once.
Look at the person and say who they are:
This is Diego, my grandson.
Vela saves the name only after that person agrees, by voice or tap. -
Then she stays quiet.
Vela watches through the glasses and says nothing until someone you introduced is in front of you. Then one short line, softly:
That’s Pedro, your neighbour from the second floor.
Tuesday. A knock at the door. You know the face.
“That’s Pedro, your neighbour from the second floor.”
The people who matter.
Vela knows only the people you introduce. Everyone else gets silence.
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Diego. Your grandson.
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Marta. Your daughter.
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Pedro. Your neighbour from the second floor.
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Someone new. Vela says nothing.
Faces never leave the phone.
Face matching and the saved faces stay on the phone. Vela saves a name only after the person agrees, by voice or tap. Your voice is processed on a server; a face never is.
Our own offline test with the app’s face model: 15 photos of 5 people, 2 photos each at enrolment, against 4 strangers. 0 of 156 stranger pairs matched; 4 in 5 photos of known people matched. Source: Vela evaluation notes, November 2026 (sources).
9 EUR a month.
Plus the glasses: Meta Ray-Ban, bought once at the optician. You pay for Vela yourself, and the names you teach her are yours.
Planned price, set by the Vela team in November 2026. Vela is a prototype and not on sale yet.
Try the prototype on your phone.
Today the demo uses the phone’s camera while the glasses app is being tested. Introduce someone, then point the phone at them.
Open the Vela prototype