Oakley Meta Glasses Have Double The Battery Life Of Ray-Bans & Capture 3K Video
Oakley Meta glasses were just announced. They have double the battery life of Ray-Ban Meta and capture 3K video, compared to 1080p.
The Oakley Meta glasses are official, after months of rumors and a tease earlier this week.
Ray-Ban and Oakley are both owned by EssilorLuxottica, the eyewear giant with which Meta last year secured an agreement extending their partnership “into the next decade”.
Meta says the Oakley Meta glasses have 8 hours of battery life, compared to the 4 hours of the existing Ray-Ban Meta glasses. They also capture 3K video, compared to 1080p.
Other than these improvements, Oakley Meta glasses function the same way as Ray-Ban Meta. They're screenless smart glasses with a camera, microphones, and speakers. You can use them to capture photos and videos, listen to music/podcasts/audiobooks, make and receive calls, share your first-person view on WhatsApp/Messenger/Instagram video calls, translate speech, scan QR codes, and query Meta AI, the company's LLM-based assistant that can see via the camera when you ask about something in view. It'll also read out some phone notifications, if you want.
Oakley Meta glasses are not replacing Ray-Ban Meta, to be clear. They're a slightly higher end option, aimed at athletes and smart glasses power users.
Like the existing Ray-Ban Meta glasses, Oakley Meta glasses are IPX4 water resistant, meaning they repel splashing water, but aren't rated for water jets or submersion.
No Centered Camera?
Bloomberg's Mark Gurman was the first to report the existence of an Oakley smart glasses project at Meta.
In his January report he claimed that the glasses would have a camera in the center, instead of on a temple, but this claim has clearly turned out to be incorrect.
It's rare for Gurman to get such a core detail of a product wrong, so it's possible that Meta was once planning a design with a centered camera.
Oakley Meta glasses will be available "later this summer", starting at $400, in the US, Canada, the UK, Ireland, France, Italy, Spain, Austria, Belgium, Australia, Germany, Sweden, Norway, Finland, and Denmark.
The smart glasses come in four frame colors: warm grey, black, brown smoke, and clear. Multiple lenses are available, including transitions.
A limited-edition Oakley Meta HSTN model with gold lenses will be priced at $500, with preorders for it opening on July 11.
