Preorders are open for Oakley Meta HSTN smart glasses on Oakley and Meta websites, with estimated delivery as early as Tuesday, Aug. 26. Pricing starts at $399. The glasses are available in several colors including black, brown, and gray, and offer lens options such as clear, transition, Prizm black polarized, and Prizm Ruby. Prescription lenses are not yet available but will arrive soon. The glasses include a built-in hands-free camera, speakers, a microphone, and onboard AI for questions, calls, and music. The Oakley model emphasizes sporty design and longer advertised battery life of about eight hours versus four hours for Ray-Bans.
You can purchase the glasses in several colors, including black, brown, and gray, and with several lens options like clear, transition, Prizm black polarized, and Prizm Ruby (which uses color tuning to "enhance contrast and detail, revealing visual cues that are difficult to see with traditional lenses"). Most color and lens options were available for preorder when I checked, but a few weren't. Prescription lenses aren't available just yet, but will be soon.
The original Meta Ray-Ban glasses debuted a little more than a year ago to pretty high praise (and they're still widely loved). While the aesthetic differences between the two are obvious (the Oakleys are significantly more "sporty"), the Oakley glasses bring some big tech upgrades, too. The Oakleys have an advertised use time of about eight hours compared to the Ray-Bans' four hours.
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