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Smart Glasses News 19 July 2025 - 5 October 2025

Ray-Ban Meta 2 vs the Smart Glasses Competition: Which High-Tech Specs Lead the Future?

Meta’s Ray-Ban Smart Glasses Gen 2: Futuristic Game‑Changer or High‑Tech Novelty?

Meta and Ray-Ban Team Up on Smart Glasses 2.0 When you hear “smart glasses,” you might recall the ill-fated Google Glass or Snapchat’s toy-like Spectacles. Meta’s approach, in partnership with luxury eyewear maker Ray-Ban, is different: make smart glasses that actually look cool. The Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses (Gen 2) have the iconic Ray-Ban style – at a glance, most people wouldn’t know they’re anything more than regular glasses nymag.com. (They come in classic designs like the Wayfarer and a round “Skyler” frame, in various colors and even prescription options nymag.com.) This “design first” philosophy is deliberate. Early smart glasses were
5 October 2025
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Meta’s New $799 Ray-Ban Smart Glasses Stun with AR Display & AI Features – Is This the Future of Wearables?

Meta Connect 2025’s Smart Glasses Demo Fiasco – CTO Reveals the Real Reason (It Wasn’t Wi‑Fi!)

Meta Connect 2025: Big Stage Set for Smart Glasses and AI Meta’s annual developer conference, Meta Connect 2025, was meant to showcase the company’s latest breakthroughs in augmented and virtual reality. In the keynote, CEO Mark Zuckerberg introduced three new smart glasses products aimed at bringing AI to users’ faces: an upgraded Ray-Ban Meta (the second-generation of Meta’s camera glasses), a new Meta Ray-Ban Display with a built-in heads-up display and neural wristband controller, and the Oakley Meta Vanguard sports glasses techcrunch.com. These devices, priced up to $799 for the Ray-Ban Display model, promise to overlay digital info in your
19 September 2025
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Ray-Ban Meta 2 vs the Smart Glasses Competition: Which High-Tech Specs Lead the Future?

Ray-Ban Meta 2 vs the Smart Glasses Competition: Which High-Tech Specs Lead the Future?

Features and Tech Capabilities Camera & Video: Ray-Ban Meta (Gen 2) is one of the few in this class with an integrated camera. It packs a 12MP ultrawide camera capable of snapping 4K-resolution stills and recording up to 3 minutes of video in 3K at 30fps (or 60fps at lower resolution) tomsguide.com tomsguide.com. This is a big step up from the previous 1080p limit. Users can tap a temple button or use voice commands (“Hey Meta, record a video”) to capture life’s moments hands-free. A forward-facing LED blinks on during capture, but as noted, its subtlety has raised eyebrows from
18 September 2025
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Oakley & Meta’s New Vanguard AI Glasses Are a Game‑Changer for Sports Performance

Oakley & Meta’s New Vanguard AI Glasses Are a Game‑Changer for Sports Performance

Oakley + Meta: Bringing AI Vision to Sports Training Oakley Meta Vanguard Performance AI glasses are designed as wraparound sports shades, packing smart tech into a classic athletic form factor. The Oakley Meta Vanguard is a bold attempt to “amplify performance” for athletes by merging Oakley’s sports eyewear DNA with Meta’s AI and wearable tech. Announced onstage at Meta’s annual Connect conference, CEO Mark Zuckerberg framed smart glasses as “the ideal form factor for personal superintelligence” – devices that keep you present in the moment while augmenting your abilities with AI reuters.com. With Vanguard, that vision is laser-focused on sports:
18 September 2025
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Meta’s New $799 Ray-Ban Smart Glasses Stun with AR Display & AI Features – Is This the Future of Wearables?

Meta’s New $799 Ray-Ban Smart Glasses Stun with AR Display & AI Features – Is This the Future of Wearables?

Meta’s AR Glasses Step into the Spotlight Meta Ray-Ban Display is the social media giant’s boldest foray yet into augmented reality eyewear. Unveiled by Mark Zuckerberg at the Meta Connect 2025 conference on Sept. 17, these smart glasses are the first from Meta (or any mainstream brand) to include a built-in heads-up display since Google Glass theguardian.com. From the outside, they resemble classic Ray-Ban Wayfarer sunglasses, a deliberate choice to avoid the cyborg look that doomed earlier smart glasses theguardian.com. But inside the right lens lies a tiny, high-resolution screen that can overlay digital info into your field of view
18 September 2025
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Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses Gen 2: Twice the Battery, 3K Video & AI – Are They Leading the Smart Glasses Revolution?

Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses Gen 2: Twice the Battery, 3K Video & AI – Are They Leading the Smart Glasses Revolution?

Key Facts Summary: Next-Gen Specs and Features: What’s New in Ray-Ban Meta (Gen 2) Meta’s second-generation Ray-Ban smart glasses come packed with under-the-hood upgrades addressing many pain points of the first version. The headline improvements are in battery life and camera quality. The Gen 2 glasses last up to 8 hours per charge under typical use – about double the endurance of the original Ray-Ban Stories (which managed roughly 4 hours in real-world use) 9to5google.com 9to5google.com. This all-day battery makes a huge difference, turning the glasses from a short-use gadget into something you can wear from “morning-to-night” (think music festivals or day-long
18 September 2025
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Meta’s New Ray-Ban AI Glasses: Hidden Display, “Mind-Reading” Wristband & More

Meta’s New Ray-Ban AI Glasses: Hidden Display, “Mind-Reading” Wristband & More

Overview: Ray-Ban Glasses Meet Augmented Display Meta’s Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses line has evolved from simple camera-equipped sunglasses into something much more ambitious. Meta Ray-Ban Display – announced on September 17, 2025 – is the company’s most advanced pair of AI glasses to date, and notably the first to include a built-in display about.fb.com. At first glance, they look like classic Ray-Ban Wayfarer-style glasses, but inside they pack a micro LED display in the right lens along with a suite of sensors and electronics. This in-lens display functions as a heads-up display (HUD) for the wearer, capable of showing text
18 September 2025
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Halliday Smart Glasses Are Here – Invisible Display & AI to Challenge Apple and Meta

Halliday Smart Glasses Are Here – Invisible Display & AI to Challenge Apple and Meta

Key Facts Halliday Smart Glasses Overview Halliday is a new entrant in the wearable tech scene, and its Halliday AI Glasses (often just called “Halliday Smart Glasses”) are the company’s first and flagship product. Unveiled at CES 2025, these glasses immediately stood out by seamlessly blending into everyday life – they resemble a stylish pair of eyeglasses rather than a high-tech gadget digitaltrends.com digitaltrends.com. The frames come in classic colors (matte black or tortoiseshell at launch) and support standard optical lenses, so users can fit their prescription if needed theverge.com theverge.com. Halliday’s background in the eyewear industry helped ensure the
26 August 2025
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The Ultimate Smart Glasses Showdown (2025): Meta’s Ray-Ban Wayfarer 2 vs Xreal Air 2 Ultra vs Rokid Max 2

Smart Glasses Showdown: Ray-Ban Meta vs Oakley HSTN vs Xiaomi AI Glasses – Design, Features, and Battery Life Compared

Ray-Ban Meta 2nd Gen glasses weigh about 48–50 g, resemble classic Wayfarers, have IPX4 water resistance, and ship with a charging case that provides about 32 extra hours of use from 8 full charges (2200+ mAh). Oakley Meta HSTN debuted as a limited-edition white frame with orange accents and Prizm 24K polarized lenses, is IPX4 rated, offers about 8 hours of typical use and 19 hours of standby, and includes a charging case with up to 48 extra hours of juice plus 50% recharge in 20 minutes. Xiaomi AI Glasses weigh around 40 g with a TR90 frame, carry an
17 August 2025
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The Ultimate Smart Glasses Showdown (2025): Meta’s Ray-Ban Wayfarer 2 vs Xreal Air 2 Ultra vs Rokid Max 2

The Ultimate Smart Glasses Showdown (2025): Meta’s Ray-Ban Wayfarer 2 vs Xreal Air 2 Ultra vs Rokid Max 2

The three standout 2025 smart glasses are Meta Ray-Ban Wayfarer 2 (Gen 2), Xreal Air 2 Ultra, and Rokid Max 2. Ray-Ban Wayfarer 2 has no AR display, but includes a 12 MP camera and 1080p video, plus open-ear audio and a 5-microphone array. Wayfarer 2 supports livestreaming POV to Facebook/Instagram and integrates Meta AI with multimodal features added in late 2024. Xreal Air 2 Ultra delivers a 52° diagonal FoV with dual 1080p HDR micro-OLED displays at up to 120 Hz and 6DoF spatial computing via Snapdragon AR1. Air 2 Ultra can connect to Windows PC, Mac, Android, iPhone
4 August 2025
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XR Face-Off: The Top Smart Glasses & Mixed Reality Headsets of 2025–26

XR Face-Off: The Top Smart Glasses & Mixed Reality Headsets of 2025–26

Apple Vision Pro, unveiled in 2023 and shipping in early 2024, uses dual 4K micro-OLED displays totaling 23 million pixels, is powered by an M2 chip plus a custom R1 processor, offers eye and hand tracking with about 12 ms passthrough latency, an external battery delivering around 2 hours, and starts at $3,499 in the US. Meta Quest 3, released in October 2023, is a standalone VR/MR headset priced at $499 for 128GB, with 2064×2208 per-eye LCD (~25 pixels per degree), ~110° field of view, 6DoF inside-out tracking, full-color passthrough, and pancake optics that are 40% thinner. Microsoft HoloLens 2,
19 July 2025
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