ESSILORLUXOTTICA + META: AI glasses portfolio expands with Ray-Ban Meta optics styles
- By Editorial Team
EssilorLuxottica and Meta have announced the expansion of their AI glasses portfolio with the introduction of Ray-Ban Meta’s new line of optical-first styles designed for prescription wearers. Through their multiyear partnership, the two companies have brought an entire AI glasses category to life with Ray-Ban Meta; the performance AI glasses Oakley Meta HSTN and Oakley Meta Vanguard, designed for athletes and sportsenthusiasts; as well as Meta Ray-Ban Display, the first pair of glasses to feature an in-lens display. The new Ray-Ban Meta collection includes two optical-first styles: Ray-Ban Meta Blayzer Optics (Gen 2) and Scriber Optics (Gen 2). The new frames are described as “more comfortable and customizable with a slimmer design, featuring interchangeable nose pads, overextension hinges offering an additional 10°of rotation and adjustable temple tips that can be shaped to match the wearer’s head perfectly”. A new dedicated actionbutton can activate Meta AI with a single press allowing users to access personalized shortcuts and capture content.
Both Blayzer Optics and Scriber Optics support a wide range of lens designs, making them accessible to far more prescription wearers. The Ray-Ban Meta portfolio can be paired with advanced single-vision lenses, progressive lenses or Transitions lenses, allowing wearers to move seamlessly from day to night without changing frames. In addition to the new Ray-Ban Meta styles, new colorways will arrive for all Oakley Meta products along with Oakley Meta Vanguard in Transitions lenses for the first time, enabling athletes and everyday consumers to maintain visual clarity and comfort across a wide range of activities without switching eyewear. Transitions lenses automatically adapt to changing light conditions, shifting from a light tint indoors to a darker sun lens outdoors, and when combined with Oakley’s Prizm lens technology, which enhances colour and contrast, Prizm Transitions lenses deliver a superior visual experience from field to track. Complementing the Ray-Ban Meta Optics styles are new seasonal colours available for a limited time including Shiny Transparent Grey(Wayfarer); Shiny Transparent Peach (Skyler); Matte Transparent Peach (Headliner). The entire AI glasses collection will expand to new regions and locations including Japan, South Korea, Singapore, Chile, Peru and Colombia later this year. With the announcement, EssilorLuxottica added they are also expanding Meta AI capabilities on their AI glasses including Live Translation in more languages (Japanese, Mandarin and Arabic), hands-free food logging, nutrition tracking to help better understand one’s diet using a voice prompt or photo, and message summarization to recap missed conversations, all completely hands-free.
