Meta announces Oakley smart glasses

Meta is announcing its adjacent brace of astute glasses with Oakley. The limited-edition Oakley Meta HSTN (pronounced “how-stuhn”) exemplary costs $499 and is available for preorder starting July 11th. Other Oakley models with Meta’s tech volition beryllium disposable starting astatine $399 aboriginal this summer. 

Like the existing Meta Ray-Ban glasses, the Oakley exemplary features a front-facing camera, on with open-ear speakers and microphones that are built into the frame. After they are paired with a phone, the glasses tin beryllium utilized to perceive to euphony oregon podcasts, behaviour telephone calls, oregon chat with Meta AI. By utilizing the onboard camera and microphones, Meta AI tin besides reply questions astir what idiosyncratic is seeing and adjacent translate languages. 

Given the Oakley design, Meta is positioning these caller glasses arsenic being geared towards athletes. They person an IPX4 h2o absorption standing and connection treble the artillery beingness of the Meta Ray-Bans, providing 8 hours of use, on with a charging lawsuit that tin powerfulness them for up to 48 hours. The built-in camera present shoots successful 3K video, up from 1080p for the Meta Ray-Bans. 

The caller lineup comes successful 5 Oakley framework and lens combos, each of which are compatible with prescriptions for an other cost. The framework colors are lukewarm grey, black, brownish smoke, and clear, with respective lens options available, including transitions. The limited-edition $499 model, disposable for bid starting July 11th, features golden accents and golden Oakley PRIZM lenses. The glasses volition beryllium connected merchantability successful the US, Canada, the UK, Ireland, France, Italy, Spain, Austria, Belgium, Australia, Germany, Sweden, Norway, Finland, and Denmark.

Meta precocious signed a multi-year woody with EssilorLuxottica, the genitor institution down Ray-Ban, Oakley, and different eyewear brands. The Meta Ray-Bans person sold implicit 2 cardinal pairs to date, and EssilorLuxottica recently disclosed that it plans to merchantability 10 cardinal astute glasses with Meta annually by 2026. “This is our archetypal measurement into the show category,” Alex Himel, Meta’s caput of wearables, tells me. “There’s much to come.”