The Ray-Ban Meta glasses are actually obtainable in India, Mexico, and the UAE, Meta’s widest {hardware} enlargement but.
This contains help for Meta AI, which Meta has now rolled out to all of the international locations the place it sells good glasses.
What Are Ray-Ban Meta Glasses?
Ray-Ban Meta glasses are good glasses with a digital camera, microphones, and audio system. They don’t have a show.
You should utilize them to take photographs and movies, hearken to music/podcasts/audiobooks, make and obtain calls, share your first-person view on WhatsApp and Messenger video calls, and question Meta AI, the corporate’s LLM-based assistant that may see by way of the digital camera while you ask about one thing in view. It’s going to additionally learn out your telephone notifications, if you’d like.
Ray-Ban Meta glasses are available three kinds: Wayfarer, Headliner, and Skyler. These kinds are supplied with 4 sorts of lenses: Clear, Solar, Polarized, and Transitions, and are available a wide range of colours, for each the body and the lenses.
Every time the digital camera is in use, be it for seize or for Meta AI, a white LED on the entrance of the glasses will pulse to make others close by conscious.
This brings the entire variety of international locations the place the Ray-Ban Meta glasses are offered to 18:
- Australia
- Austria
- Belgium
- Canada
- Denmark
- Finland
- France
- Germany
- India
- Eire
- Italy
- Mexico
- Norway
- Spain
- Sweden
- United Arab Emirates
- United Kingdom
- United States of America
That is truly fewer international locations than Meta formally sells its Quest headsets in. Quest can also be obtainable in Iceland, Japan, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland, South Korea, Switzerland, and Taiwan. Nonetheless, Quest headsets aren’t offered in India, Mexico, or the UAE.
On paper, the enlargement of Meta and EssilorLuxottica’s good glasses enterprise into India, Mexico, and the UAE nearly triples the market attain, primarily given the big inhabitants of India.
However India stays one of many poorest international locations on the planet on a per capita foundation, and the Ray-Ban Meta glasses are priced at round 30,000 rupees, near the typical Indian wage. As such, the overwhelming majority of Indians are unlikely to buy good glasses any time quickly, although the nation does have a rising center class that Meta and EssilorLuxottica are probably hoping to focus on.
Mexico is a a lot wealthier nation per capita, although with lower than a tenth of the inhabitants of India, and the UAE even moreso, however with lower than 1%. As the biggest eyewear firm on the planet, EssilorLuxottica has a presence in all three, with shops that it could actually leverage to let potential patrons strive on the good glasses.
Oakley Meta Glasses Are Reportedly Coming This Yr Too
Oakley Meta glasses are coming later this yr, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman stories.
Later this yr, Meta and EssilorLuxottica reportedly plan to launch Oakley Meta glasses too, and we’ll control how extensively these are offered worldwide.
