If Meta Connect wasn’t proof enough that VR is taking a back seat to smart glasses, Apple may soon hammer that point home. According to a report from Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, Apple is sidelining work on a cheaper Vision Pro to focus on putting out multiple pairs of smart glasses ahead of schedule. Per the […]
Ray-Ban Meta Gen 2 Review: Still the Best Non-Display Smart Glasses
It’s never ideal being the second-most anything in the world, but there are worse places to be, too. The same applies to the Ray-Ban Meta AI glasses Gen 2, which were the second-most exciting thing that Meta announced at Meta Connect this month. The first, if popular opinion is any indication, is Meta’s Ray-Ban Display […]
If You’re Dying to Try Meta’s New Smart Glasses With a Display, Now’s Your Chance
I’ve been getting a lot of questions about Meta’s new smart glasses with a display, appropriately dubbed the Meta Ray-Ban Display. In fact, just 30 minutes before typing this, I was fielding questions about how they looked, what they did, and my personal thoughts from an interested individual at a site called Gizmodo.com. And the […]
Ray-Ban Meta Gen 2 vs Gen 1: Which Smart Glasses Should You Buy?
It’s hard to believe, but we now live in a world where you have to account for generations of smart glasses. That’s great for variety’s sake, but for choosing which smart glasses to buy (in this case, which Ray-Ban-branded smart glasses in particular), things might get a little confusing. Having used both generations of Meta’s Ray-Ban AI […]
We Need to Talk About Smart Glasses
With any new device category comes a whole host of novel and sometimes exhaustingly complex questions. Smartphones, for example, no matter how mundane they seem right now, are still nagging us with existential quandaries. When should we use them? How should we use them? What in God’s name happens to us when we use them, which, […]
Meta Oakley Vanguard Hands-On: Time to Yee-Haw!
As much as we don’t want to admit it, we’re all superficial to a certain extent. Fashion is perfect proof of that. Do you have any logical reason to judge someone for the things they wear on their body? Not really, but also, that’s not accurate all the time. For example, when people look at […]
Meta’s Ray-Ban Smart Glasses Now Have a Screen and a Magic Wristband
Meta’s Ray-Bans are back with a new generation, and this time they’re finally giving people the one thing they really want—a screen. At Meta’s annual Connect developer conference, the company officially took the wraps off its Meta Ray-Ban Display, which are, as the name suggests, its first pair of AI-infused smart glasses to come with […]
Meta Ray-Ban Display Hands-On: The Smart Glasses You Were Waiting For
There’s one thing people want to know when they see my first-gen Ray-Ban smart glasses, and it’s got nothing to do with AI, or cameras, or the surprisingly great open-ear audio they put out. They want to know what’s probably front-of-mind right now as you’re reading this: Do they have a screen in them? The […]
Meta’s New Wraparound Smart Glasses Are the Most Oakley Oakleys You Can Buy
Ray-Ban wasn’t the only collaboration that got some shine at Meta Connect. The company also took the wraps (no pun intended) off a pair of wraparound shades designed by Oakley and, like its recently released HSTN smart glasses, designed more with sporty types in mind. Outside of the differing glasses shape, the $499 Meta Oakley […]
Live Updates From Meta Connect 2025 🔴
It’s Mark Zuckerberg’s turn to get on stage and yap about how his company, Meta, is leading the way with the metaverse—oops, we meant artificial superintelligence (whatever that means)—at the annual Meta Connect 2025 developer conference. Connect takes place from Sept. 17 through Sept. 18, but the first day is when Zuckerberg will be keynoting, […]