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Ray-Ban Meta, Meta Ray-Ban Display, Snap Specs, Android XR and every pair of glasses that puts AI on your face: launches, features, prices and what they are really like to live with.
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Ray-Ban Meta glasses take prescriptions from -12.00 to +6.00 total power, with single-vision, progressive and Transitions lenses. Here is where to order them, what they add to the frame price and how long they take.
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Meta rates Ray-Ban Meta glasses IPX4: they handle sweat, splashes and light rain. They aren't designed for swimming, showers or submersion, and the charging case isn't water resistant at all.
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Meta rates Ray-Ban Meta glasses at up to four hours (Gen 1) to 12 hours (Audio) per charge, and the case adds up to 32 to 50 hours more. Here is what each model gets, what drains a charge faster, how long charging takes and what battery saver does.
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Current Ray-Ban Meta glasses cost $349 to $579 in the US before prescription lenses, and leftover first-generation pairs go for less. Here's what each model and lens option costs on Ray-Ban.com, what prescriptions add and how prices compare abroad.
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Ray-Ban Meta glasses need the free Meta AI app before they do much of anything. Here's what you need, how to pair them on iPhone or Android, what to set up next and how to fix a pairing that won't go through.
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"Hey Meta" is only the start. Here's how to wake Meta AI on your Ray-Ban Meta glasses, ask about what you're looking at, and the commands for photos, calls, music, reminders and translation.
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Your Ray-Ban Meta glasses can translate a conversation as it happens and read signs and menus for you. Here's how to start it, which languages work offline and which need a connection.
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One press of the capture button takes a photo, and a long press starts a video. Here's how to do both by voice, how long clips can be, which quality settings to change and where the files end up.
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Taps and swipes on the right arm control music, calls and Meta AI, and the capture button handles the camera. Here's what each gesture does, how the Gen 3 action button works and what you can change.
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The power switch is on the left arm, and a small light inside the frame tells you what the glasses are doing. Here's how to turn them on and off, what each color means and how to restart a pair that won't respond.
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Everything you shoot stays on your Ray-Ban Meta glasses until the Meta AI app moves it to your phone. Here's how auto-import and manual import work, where the files end up and what to do when an import won't start.
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Ray-Ban Meta glasses can place calls, dictate messages and send photos on WhatsApp, Messenger, Instagram and your phone's own calling and texting. Here's how to connect each one and what to say.
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Ray-Ban Meta glasses work like open-ear headphones for anything on your phone, and a handful of services also work by voice. Here's which ones, how to connect them and how much the people around you will hear.
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Over two days in September, Meta unveiled $1,299.99 VR Glasses, two new Ray-Ban models, cheaper Meta Glasses, hearing enhancement and plans to put its Muse agent on your face. A month later, here is everything it announced, what you can buy today and what is still to come.
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Meta Ray-Ban Display puts a small full-color screen in a pair of Ray-Bans and pairs it with a wristband that reads finger movements. It costs $799 in the US and is now sold online and in five more countries.
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Oakley's AI glasses come in two models: the everyday HSTN, from $399, and the wraparound Vanguard for high-intensity sport, at $499. They differ in battery life, water resistance, lenses and prescription support.
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Smart glasses are ordinary-looking frames with speakers, microphones and often a camera or a tiny display, linked to your phone and an AI assistant. Here's how the types differ, who makes them, what they cost and what to know before wearing a pair in public.
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Snap's first AR glasses for consumers cost $2,195 and are due to ship this fall in the US, the UK and France. They fit a 51-degree display, two Snapdragon chips and the battery into a frame of 132 to 136 grams, after a decade of Spectacles.
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XREAL Aura is the first pair of see-through glasses to run Google's Android XR. Orders opened Oct. 28 in the US, Canada and South Korea at a launch price from $1,099, with shipments starting in mid-November. The glasses weigh under 95 grams and connect to a pocket puck that runs the apps.
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Apple sells one Vision Pro, the M5 model from October 2025, and since June it starts at $3,699. Here is what it costs, what's inside, what visionOS 27 adds, where you can buy it and what Apple is reportedly planning next.
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There's no single best pair of smart glasses. The right one depends on whether you want a camera, a display, a big screen for movies or just audio. Here are the strongest options for each need, based on official specs and US prices.
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Oakley Meta and Ray-Ban Meta run the same assistant and the same app. They differ in the frame: water resistance, lenses, microphones, prescription range and the fitness features only Vanguard has.
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Oakley Meta HSTN puts a 12MP camera, open-ear speakers and Meta AI into Oakley's HSTN frame. It starts at $399, and it is the Oakley Meta model you can order with prescription lenses.
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Oakley Meta Vanguard is Meta's AI glasses for high-intensity sport: a wraparound frame with a centered camera, louder speakers, an IP67 rating and live stats from a Garmin. It costs $499.
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