PARIS, France and MENLO PARK, Calif. — EssilorLuxottica and Meta Platforms, Inc. have officially unveiled the next generation of AI glasses. Expanding on the groundbreaking category of products they’ve introduced to date, the newest glasses heading into the market will raise the bar to a new level in terms of style, functionality and human connection.
Oakley Meta Vanguard
One of the new items is the Oakley Meta Vanguard, a new line of AI glasses introducing the world to the era of Athletic Intelligence. Available in four color options, Oakley Meta Vanguard combines Oakley’s signature PRIZM lenses with a powerful 12MP ultra-wide camera (122° field of view), high decibel open-ear speakers and advanced wind noise reduction.
Optimized for comfort during long workouts, the glasses are compatible with cycling helmets and hats, and are built to endure harsh elements with IP67 water and dust resistance, handling sun, snow and dirt with ease. The integration of Garmin and Strava gives athletes real-time personalized performance insights with up to nine hours of typical mixed-use battery life (plus an additional 36 hours via the charging case). The glasses are also designed with swappable Oakley PRIZM lenses, so you can customize your look and optimize for various lighting conditions.
Ray-Ban Meta (Gen 2)
In addition, EssilorLuxottica and Meta unveiled the next generation of Ray-Ban Meta (Gen 2), which comes with an extended battery life of up to eight hours, an ultra-wide 12MP camera that now captures high-quality 3K ultra-HD videos with precision and clarity, and an expanded palette of styles and colors. Ray-Ban Meta continues to get better and more capable over time with regular updates and new features.
Conversation Focus is a new feature coming soon that uses AI glasses’ open-ear speakers to amplify the voice of the person you’re talking to, helping distinguish it from ambient background noise in cafes and restaurants, parks and other busy places.
Meta Ray-Ban Display
Meta Ray-Ban Display combines the world’s most popular AI glasses with an integrated display for the first time. The glasses feature a built-in, full-color visual display in the right lens that discreetly shows wearers incoming messages, previews of photos to capture, video calls and visual AI information like step-by-step instructions. Customers can order Meta Ray-Ban Display glasses with their own unique prescription, and each pair comes fitted with Transitions lenses.
The display glasses come with the Meta Neural Band, an EMG wristband that enables you to control the glasses with subtle hand and finger movements. EssilorLuxottica’s decades of R&D in advanced lens technology paired with Meta’s hardware breakthroughs and leading AI capabilities provide a new window into the world in front of us.
“This latest innovation to come from our deep relationship with Meta reveals the next horizon,” said commented Francesco Milleri, Chairman and CEO at EssilorLuxottica. “Having overcome the barriers to consumer adoption by fitting the most advanced tech into a beautiful pair of frames seamlessly and then delivering them to consumers through a global retail network, we set our sights on something bigger.
“Meta Ray-Ban Display showcases the best of our two companies in terms of our lens technology and wearables design expertise, and Meta’s leadership in AI and software architecture, and it completely redefines what it means to be ‘hands-free.’ These, along with the next generation of Ray-Ban Meta and Oakley Meta glasses, will take us all to new places and levels of performance in style. We’re incredibly proud to be pioneers with Meta in this space, with a long runway of innovation still ahead.”
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