Ray-Ban Meta Glasses: Zuckerberg’s Smartglasses With Camera To Overtake Smartphones

Ray-Ban Meta glasses is Zuckerberg’s first step to rid the world of smartphones. These are the smart glasses that are equipped with a camera on the side.

The Ray-Ban Meta glasses are the latest and greatest manifestation of Meta’s mantra: allow people to upload more and more of their lives online. The company intends to achieve this lifestyle through lots of cameras. You’ll be convinced if you ever had the chance to saunter around in Meta’s Menlo Park campus. Anywhere you look, a camera will be looking back. And the Ray-Ban Meta glasses are partly responsible for this.

As the eponymous name of the smartglasses suggests, Ray-Ban Meta was produced from a collaboration between the tech giant and the eyewear corporation. Essentially, they are a pair of normal sunglasses with a camera on the side of one lens and a light on the other. The new Quest 3S virtual reality headset and the prototype Orion AR glasses also employ similar technology but with a more advanced twist.

Meta’s CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, imagines a future where smartphones have been replaced completely by such smart glasses. He has been able to create such an atmosphere to an extent in the Meta campus.

Ray-Ban Meta’s sales going “very well,” as opposed to the experimental Orion glasses, the manufacturing process of which costs upwards of $10,000. Of course, the Ray-Ban Meta has no display screen. However, a set of powerful AI features are embedded inside them.

The glasses can be customized just like a pair of normal Ray-Bans – any tint, any frame, and any lens, even prescription. But for the 12MP ultrawide camera on one side and an indicator light on the other embedded in the frame, we couldn’t tell the two apart.

The camera can be used to shoot photos and videos with the light doubling as an indicator and flash. The light is always on when the camera is active, even in broad daylight. This tells you that someone might be clicking a picture of you.

However, if we switch sides and put on the glasses, then the situation becomes somewhat mellow. There is something about being able to capture a video or photo with the click of a button with the camera being at eye level. With a mobile phone, one has to undergo the slightly irritating if not tedious process of pulling it out of one’s pocket, unlocking it, and pressing the record button.

More than that, the Ray-Ban Meta works perfectly fine as a pair of normal spectacles, even with prescription lenses. People who wear these glasses as a vision aid will have to keep an electronic backup on their person at all times or risk taking shots in some weird places, like a public bathroom.

But all this is assuming that people will invest their time, energy and money in buying the Ray-Ban Meta. Of course, you’d find a lot of them if you go inside a Meta facility, but who knows what people on the outside really think about them.