The new Oakley Meta glasses outshine the Ray-Ban Meta with a big jump in battery life and video quality. And there’s supposedly even more to come.
When Meta launched the second generation of its Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses in late 2023, few predicted the success that lay ahead for the collaboration—perhaps not even Meta itself.
But now, with more than 2 million sales under its belt, Meta has been looking for a way to widen its partnership with eyewear giant and Ray-Ban owner EssilorLuxottica and keep up the momentum. The answer it seems was staring them in the face: a collaboration with the company’s second largest brand, Oakley.
“We launched our second generation of the Ray-Ban Meta glasses at [Meta] Connect a year and a half ago, and they’ve taken off faster than we expected,” Alex Himel, VP of wearables at Meta, tells WIRED. “But they were never meant to be the one and only thing we did with EssilorLuxottica.”