Month: September 2025
Meta Goes Even Harder Into Smart Glasses With 3 New Models
New glasses with a built-in display bring Meta’s vision of the augmented reality future into focus. The popular Ray-Bans also get an update, and there’s a new Oakley style for action sports. Source
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I regret to inform you Meta’s new smart glasses are the best I’ve ever tried
I want to preface this hands-on by saying that I’ve been a smart glasses skeptic for many years. In 2019, I even made a two-part mini documentary with a thesis that consumer smart glasses couldn’t happen without massive societal and technological shifts. Well, color me pink and let me find…
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Oakley Meta Vanguard are the smart glasses athletes might actually want
When Meta announced its first pair of Oakley-branded sunglasses, the HSTN frames, earlier this year, it called them “performance AI” glasses even though they only came with modest upgrades compared with Meta’s Ray-Ban lineup. But the new Oakley Meta Vanguard glasses, which were just unveiled at Connect, are much more…
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The new Oakley Meta glasses are what athletes actually want
When the Oakley Meta HSTN arrived earlier this year, it wasn’t what I thought Oakley-branded smart glasses would be. Sure, they had Oakley’s famous PRIZM lenses, but where was the wraparound design? Where were the athlete-focused features like stronger water and sweat resistance? Confusingly, it felt like the HSTN glasses…
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Meta’s new Ray-Ban smart glasses have twice the battery life
Meta has announced a new generation of its Ray-Ban smart glasses, featuring significantly improved battery life and the ability to record 3K video, which brings them up to par with the Oakley HSTN smart glasses. The new glasses, technically called the Ray-Ban Meta Gen 2, are available to order today…
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ChatGPT will guess if you’re a teen and start acting like a chaperone
ChatGPT will begin estimating users’ ages based on conversation patterns Those identified as teens will be shunted to a filtered, teen-specific experience Parents will have new tools to link accounts, set usage limits, and receive alerts about their teens’ mental state OpenAI is making ChatGPT act like a bouncer at…
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