ZDNET’s key takeaways
- Preorders are open for Oakley Meta HSTN sensible glasses.
- The estimated arrival is as early as Tuesday, Aug. 26
- Pricing begins at $399.00
If you wish to be first in line to safe the brand new Oakley Meta sensible glasses, your time has arrived.
Preorders at the moment are open for the Oakley Meta HSTN glasses, which start at $399.99, on each the Oakley and Meta web sites — and you’ll have them in your fingers in lower than every week. After I clicked by the buying course of on Oakley’s site, I used to be given a delivery estimate of Tuesday, Aug. 26. Meta’s web site, nonetheless, supplied a supply date of Aug. 26.
You should buy the glasses in a number of colours, together with black, brown, and grey, and with a number of lens choices like clear, transition, Prizm black polarized, and Prizm Ruby (which makes use of colour tuning to “improve distinction and element, revealing visible cues which can be troublesome to see with conventional lenses”). Most colour and lens choices have been obtainable for preorder after I checked, however a number of weren’t. Prescription lenses aren’t obtainable simply but, however shall be quickly.
Additionally: I spent a weekend with Meta’s new Oakley smart glasses – they beat my Ray-Bans in every way
That is Meta’s newest collaboration for sensible glasses, the primary being final yr’s Ray-Ban edition. The Oakley Meta sensible glasses have a built-in, hands-free digicam that allows you to report your environment, audio system that allow you to make calls or take heed to music, a microphone, onboard AI that may reply your questions, and extra.
Ray-Ban Meta and Oakley Meta glasses
The unique Meta Ray-Ban glasses debuted a little more than a year ago to fairly excessive reward (and so they’re still widely loved). Whereas the aesthetic variations between the 2 are apparent (the Oakleys are considerably extra “sporty”), the Oakley glasses carry some huge tech upgrades, too.
The Oakleys have an marketed use time of about eight hours in comparison with the Ray-Bans’ 4 hours. And Meta says that you may cost the brand new glasses to 50% in simply 20 minutes. The Oakley glasses additionally embrace a considerably upgraded digicam (from 1080p to 3K “Extremely HD”), and an IPX4 water resistance score, a step-up in sturdiness from the Ray-Bans.
Additionally: We tested the best AR and MR glasses: Here’s how the Meta Ray-Bans stack up
These upgrades do include a worth, as you’ll be able to decide up the Meta Ray-Bans for $299.00. When you’re attempting to resolve between the 2, ZDNET’s Sabrina Ortiz breaks down the advantages of each here.
Ortiz spent a week with the Oakley Meta glasses and got here away pretty impressed with the high-resolution digicam and battery life, and our personal Jason Howell tried them as well, mentioning that whereas they’re designed for “athletes, adventurers, and creators who need a straightforward strategy to seize immersive POV clips in action-oriented environments,” they’re helpful for anybody who needs fast, off-the-cuff social movies (so long as you are wonderful with the sports-focused design).
