At the Meta Connect developer conference, Mark Zuckerberg, caput of the Facebook radical Meta, shows the prototype of machine glasses that tin show integer objects successful transparent lenses.
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Mark Zuckerberg connected Wednesday unveiled the $799 Meta Ray-Ban Display glasses, the societal media company's archetypal consumer-ready astute glasses with a built-in display.
The glasses, which costs $799, incorporate a tiny integer show that tin beryllium controlled via manus gestures done a wristband powered by neural technology, confirming a CNBC report successful August. A promotional video of the caller astute glasses appeared connected Meta's YouTube leafage connected Monday but was aboriginal removed.
The caller astute glasses are a span betwixt the company's audio-only Ray-Ban Meta astute glasses and the experimental Orion augmented world glasses that the institution revealed astatine past year's Connect event. Orion tin overlay 3D visuals implicit a person's real-world tract of presumption with the assistance of a wireless computing puck, but the glasses are costly to marque and not yet disposable to consumers.
Meta has been processing its astute glasses with eyewear elephantine EssilorLuxottica since 2019, and past twelvemonth renewed a semipermanent concern statement to proceed making the products.
The institution connected Wednesday besides debuted the Oakley Meta Vanguard astute glasses, intended for athletes who enactment successful high-intensity sports similar snowboarding and upland biking. The Oakley-branded glasses volition outgo $499 erstwhile they motorboat connected Oct. 21, making it $100 much costly than the Oakley Meta HSTN glasses that went connected sale successful June.
The Oakley Meta Vanguard astute glasses person a sportier look than the Oakley Meta HSTN glasses acknowledgment to a wraparound plan that extends its colorful lenses astir a person's temples. Unlike the Oakley Meta HSTN glasses, the caller exemplary contains a fastener connected the underside of its frames truthful that athletes who deterioration helmets tin much easy seizure photos and videos.
The caller sports-centric astute glasses person up to 9 hours of artillery life, tin seizure 3K video and incorporate speakers that are louder than their predecessors. The glasses tin link with Garmin-branded fittingness watches to way definite stats similar their bosom rates utilizing the Meta AI assistant. Preorders commencement today.
Meta besides debuted the Ray-Ban Meta (Gen 2), the latest mentation of the company's archetypal astute glasses. The Ray-Ban Meta (Gen 2) costs $379, up from $299 for the mentation released successful 2023. The Ray-Ban Meta (Gen 2) has treble the artillery beingness of the erstwhile model, lasting 8 hours connected a azygous charge, and a much almighty camera that tin seizure 3K Ultra HD video. The caller glasses spell connected merchantability today.
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