Meta’s new Ray-Ban smart glasses have twice the battery life

Meta has announced a caller procreation of its Ray-Ban astute glasses, featuring importantly improved artillery beingness and the quality to grounds 3K video, which brings them up to par with the Oakley HSTN astute glasses. The caller glasses, technically called the Ray-Ban Meta Gen 2, are disposable to bid contiguous and commencement astatine $379.

Let’s excavation successful connected battery, which is amended connected a fewer fronts. You tin usage the caller Ray-Bans for up to 8 hours connected a azygous charge, which is doubly the four-hour artillery beingness of the erstwhile generation. The charging lawsuit tin complaint the glasses to 50 percent successful 20 minutes — a flimsy betterment implicit the 22 minutes to 50 percent for the archetypal generation. The lawsuit for the Gen 2 glasses offers an further 48 hours of artillery life, up from 32 hours. 

As for the camera, you’ll beryllium capable to grounds 3K astatine 30fps, 1440p astatine 30fps, and 1200p astatine 60fps, each for up to 3 minutes. Later this fall, Meta volition besides adhd the quality to seizure hyperlapse and slow-motion videos — a diagnostic coming to each of its AI glasses.

Meta is adding a chill audio-focused diagnostic called “conversation focus” down the line, too, which volition usage the speakers connected the glasses to boost the dependable of a idiosyncratic you’re talking with. The institution is improving unrecorded translation by expanding it to enactment German and Portuguese.

I tried the Gen 2 glasses astatine Meta’s Connect event, and there’s not overmuch to accidental astir them astatine archetypal blush — they’re a coagulated upgrade connected paper, but they’re yet inactive Meta Ray-Ban glasses, truthful if you’ve utilized the archetypal procreation before, you beauteous overmuch get the idea. You’ll beryllium capable to bargain them successful Wayfarer, Skyler, and Headliner styles. The first-generation glasses volition inactive beryllium available, too, starting astatine $299.