Oakley Meta preorders open up, and you can get the AI glasses next week

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ZDNET's cardinal takeaways

• Preorders are unfastened for Oakley Meta HSTN astute glasses.
• The estimated accomplishment is arsenic aboriginal arsenic Tuesday, Aug. 26
• Pricing starts astatine $399.00

If you privation to beryllium archetypal successful enactment to unafraid the caller Oakley Meta astute glasses, your clip has arrived.

Preorders are present unfastened for the Oakley Meta HSTN glasses, which start astatine $399.99, connected some the Oakley and Meta websites -- and you tin person them successful your hands successful little than a week. When I clicked done the purchasing process connected Oakley's site, I was fixed a shipping estimation of Tuesday, Aug. 26. Meta's site, however, offered a delivery date of Aug. 26.  

You tin acquisition the glasses successful respective colors, including black, brown, and gray, and with respective lens options similar clear, transition, Prizm achromatic polarized, and Prizm Ruby (which uses colour tuning to "enhance opposition and detail, revealing ocular cues that are hard to spot with accepted lenses"). Most colour and lens options were disposable for preorder erstwhile I checked, but a fewer weren't. Prescription lenses aren't disposable conscionable yet, but volition beryllium soon.

Also: I spent a play with Meta's caller Oakley astute glasses - they bushed my Ray-Bans successful each way

This is Meta's latest collaboration for astute glasses, the archetypal being past year's Ray-Ban edition. The Oakley Meta astute glasses person a built-in, hands-free camera that lets you grounds your surroundings, speakers that fto you marque calls oregon perceive to music, a microphone, onboard AI that tin reply your questions, and more. 

Ray-Ban Meta and Oakley Meta glasses

The archetypal Meta Ray-Ban glasses debuted a small much than a twelvemonth ago to beauteous precocious praise (and they're still wide loved). While the aesthetic differences betwixt the 2 are evident (the Oakleys are importantly much "sporty"), the Oakley glasses bring immoderate large tech upgrades, too. 

The Oakleys person an advertised usage clip of astir 8 hours compared to the Ray-Bans' 4 hours. And Meta says that you tin complaint the caller glasses to 50% successful conscionable 20 minutes. The Oakley glasses besides see a importantly upgraded camera (from 1080p to 3K "Ultra HD"), and an IPX4 h2o absorption rating, a step-up successful durability from the Ray-Bans.

Also: We tested the champion AR and MR glasses: Here's however the Meta Ray-Bans stack up

Those upgrades bash travel with a price, arsenic you tin prime up the Meta Ray-Bans for $299.00. If you're trying to determine betwixt the two, ZDNET's Sabrina Ortiz breaks down the advantages of each here. 

Ortiz spent a week with the Oakley Meta glasses and came distant reasonably impressed with the high-resolution camera and artillery life, and our ain Jason Howell tried them arsenic well, pointing retired that portion they're designed for "athletes, adventurers, and creators who privation an casual mode to drawback immersive POV clips successful action-oriented environments," they're utile for anyone who wants quick, off-the-cuff societal videos (as agelong arsenic you're good with the sports-focused design).