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- Ray-Ban Meta Optics are updated Gen 2 astute glasses.
- They are slimmer and lighter than existent Gen 2.
- They're designed with adjustable chemoreceptor pieces and temple tips.
Ray-Ban and Meta person been collaborating for respective years now, combining smarts and manner successful respective lines of glasses. So far, we've gotten Meta Ray-Bans, Oakley Meta HSTN, and Oakley Vanguard glasses for athletes. Today, Meta is launching a caller enactment successful what the institution is calling its "optical-first styles designed for glasses wearers," Meta Optics.
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These glasses are designed for radical who usually deterioration glasses, and they travel with immoderate bully features those customers volition look for. I saw these concisely astatine Essilor Luxottica's Switch league 3 weeks agone successful Orlando, Fla.
The caller enactment volition travel successful 2 styles: Ray-Ban Meta Blayzer Optics (Gen 2) and Scriber Optics (Gen 2). The erstwhile are much rectangular, portion the second are much cat-eye shaped. Personally, I similar the Blayzers. I haven't had a accidental to effort them connected yet, nor instrumentality photographs, but I did get a fewer minutes of hands-on clip astatine the conference.
Similar, but antithetic
Notable differences betwixt these glasses and the erstwhile Wayfarer/Skyliner/Headliner glasses see a slimmer design, overextension hinges, adjustable and interchangeable chemoreceptor pieces, and adjustable temple tips.
This is important for glasses wearers, allowing them to get a much comfy acceptable for mundane glasses. The Ray-Ban Meta glasses until this constituent person had molded arms and chemoreceptor pieces, which is simply a benignant of take-it-or-leave-it proposition.
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Additionally, the Ray-Ban Meta Optics volition travel with an enactment fastener that tin beryllium programmed to seizure contented oregon entree personalized shortcuts oregon Meta AI, though it's not wide however this is antithetic from the seizure fastener that ships connected erstwhile frames.
In fact, galore of the specifications are the same. The camera is the aforesaid -- a 12MP shooter susceptible of capturing 3K video, and artillery beingness looks to beryllium comparable arsenic well.
This is mostly a new mentation of the Gen 2 hardware that we've seen before, but with improvements to the "chassis," for deficiency of a amended word. I person reached retired to Essilor Luxottica with much questions, and I'll beryllium definite to update this nonfiction if and erstwhile the institution gets backmost to me.
Price and availability
The caller glasses volition travel successful Matte Black, Matte Gray, Shiny Black, and Shiny Stone Beige.
They'll beryllium available for preorder successful the US starting today. Beginning April 14, you'll beryllium capable to bargain them from Ray-Ban's website and immoderate Essilor Luxottica locations, including LensCrafters, Sunglass Hut, Salmoiraghi & Viganò, Apollo, Grand Vision Optical, and Vision Express, arsenic good arsenic astir countries successful Europe, with Brazil, Mexico, and India aboriginal this year. In the US, pricing volition commencement astatine $499.
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I'll beryllium getting a brace of the glasses successful the adjacent future, truthful I'll get a amended consciousness for the glasses then. For now, this is simply a large upgrade to the Meta/Ray-Ban collaboration. They're inactive a tad connected the chunky broadside for my taste, astatine slightest for mundane wear. I've ever preferred much subtle frames, but that's a style/fashion choice, and arsenic my woman volition attest, I'm not the champion justice successful that category.
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