Ray-Ban’s Meta smart glasses are even cheaper than they were on Black Friday

The last-gen exemplary costs $155 little than the caller pair.

It sounds weird to accidental it’s a bully happening if you missed the Ray-Ban Meta woody connected Black Friday, but… it’s benignant of true. The original Ray-Ban Meta astute glasses just fell to an adjacent amended all-time debased of $224.25 ($75) at Amazon and Best Buy, which beats the Black Friday terms by $15.

Ray-Ban Meta (Gen 1) astute glasses

Where to Buy:

• $299 $224.25 astatine Amazon
• $299 $224.25 astatine Best Buy
• $299.99 astatine Target (with $85 acquisition paper erstwhile purchased online)

That’s a large woody because, adjacent though Meta released the Ray-Ban Meta (Gen 2) astatine the extremity of October, the last-gen glasses inactive connection large value. They’re mostly similar, offering overmuch of the aforesaid acquisition — letting you play music, instrumentality photos, grounds 1080p video, and adjacent livestream to Facebook oregon Instagram without pulling retired your phone. And portion the newer exemplary shoots sharper 3K video astatine 30fps, some usage the aforesaid 12-megapixel sensor truthful the representation prime isn’t noticeably different.

They besides connection a five-microphone array for hands-free calls and volition see the Gen 2’s upcoming “conversation focus” bundle upgrade, which boosts the dependable of whoever you’re talking to. The archetypal brace volition besides person different planned Gen 2 bundle updates scheduled for the fall, including caller slo-mo and hyperlapse video modes.

Additionally, the glasses tin execute a scope of different tasks acknowledgment to Meta’s AI-based features. For example, you tin construe Spanish, Italian, and French successful existent time, with German and Portuguese coming soon. You tin besides usage your dependable to drawback photos, get look ideas from whatever’s successful your fridge, larn astir landmarks, and more.

Granted, you don’t get the Gen 2’s eight-hour artillery beingness — doubly that of the archetypal pair’s — but with a $155 terms difference, it mightiness beryllium a sacrifice you tin easy unrecorded with.

Read our Ray-Ban Meta review.