The common Oakley Meta HSTN glasses are actually transport and stocked in shops.
Ray-Ban and Oakley are each owned by EssilorLuxottica, the eyewear large with which Meta final yr secured an settlement extending their partnership “into the following decade”, and this yr took a 3% stake in it by way of a €3 billion funding.
Hoping to construct on the success of Ray-Ban Meta, in June the 2 firms introduced Oakley Meta HSTN glasses, a barely higher-end choice with the Oakley HSTN design.
Meta says the Oakley Meta HSTN glasses have 8 hours of battery life in typical use, in comparison with 4 hours for the Ray-Ban Meta glasses. In addition they seize 2300×3100 video, up from 1440×1920.
Aside from these enhancements, Oakley Meta HSTN glasses perform the identical method as Ray-Ban Meta. They’re screenless sensible glasses with a digicam, microphones, and audio system. You should utilize them to seize photographs and movies, hearken to music/podcasts/audiobooks, make and obtain calls, share your first-person view on WhatsApp & Messenger video calls, translate speech, scan QR codes, and question Meta AI, the corporate’s LLM-based assistant that may see by way of the digicam once you ask about one thing in view. It will additionally learn out some telephone notifications, if you would like.
Like the prevailing Ray-Ban Meta glasses, Oakley Meta HSTN glasses are IPX4 waterproof, that means they will deal with being splashed by water, however aren’t rated for water jets or submersion. And likewise like Ray-Ban Meta, Oakley Meta HSTN glasses characteristic a privateness LED on the entrance that illuminates at any time when the digicam is in use, be it for seize or for Meta AI.
In July, an preliminary limited-edition Oakley Meta HSTN mannequin with gold accents and 24K gold polarized lenses launched and shipped, priced at $500.
Now, the common editions are transport, beginning at $400, within the US, Canada, the UK, Eire, France, Italy, Spain, Austria, Belgium, Australia, Germany, Sweden, Norway, Finland, and Denmark.
The glasses can be found in six common body and lens coloration combos:
- Heat Gray with Ruby PRIZM Lenses ($400)
- Black with Clear Lenses ($400)
- Brown Smoke with Polarized Deep Water PRIZM Lenses ($450)
- Black with Black PRIZM Polarized Lenses ($450)
- Black with Amethyst Transitions Lenses ($480)
- Clear with Gray Transitions Lenses ($480)
The sun shades fashions use Oakley’s PRIZM lens know-how, which EssilorLuxottica says enhances colours and distinction.
Meta says the glasses can even be coming to Mexico, India, and the United Arab Emirates later within the yr.
You should buy the Oakley Meta HSTN glasses on-line from Meta or Oakley, and you should buy them in individual at Oakley shops. For prescription lenses, you will must get them from Oakley, not Meta.
