Meta Ray-Ban
Smart glasses developed by Meta in partnership with Ray-Ban featuring cameras and AI capabilities.
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How Meta Ray-Ban compares
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Meta's parent company
Ray-Ban glasses are a narrower, more affordable win inside Meta. John sees them as proof a focused hardware bet can work better than a big metaverse push.
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Ray-Ban glasses are a narrower, more affordable win inside Meta. John sees them as proof a focused hardware bet can work better than a big metaverse push.
"I have a pair and I enjoy using it. It's fun. But that does not a story make yet."
Discussed in the context of Meta trying to build successful consumer hardware; compared implicitly to Beats' scale (2M units sold)
"What is the meta Ray-Bans of MSL? What would remain? Because when they wind down one of these projects, sometimes you get a Meta Ray-Bans, which is pretty good business and growing and cool."
Compared to Meta's VR/metaverse strategy as a narrower, more successful consumer hardware outcome
"Meta did it better for a third of the cost. The Facebook Ray-Ban bands — the price point I think makes those a bit more viable right now in the short term."
Compared favorably to Snap AR glasses ($2,200); Meta version costs roughly a third of the price
AirPods
Direct rival
Apple's wireless earbuds
John says Meta Ray-Bans compete with AirPods: users take calls and listen to music on them instead.
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John says Meta Ray-Bans compete with AirPods: users take calls and listen to music on them instead.
"I actually bought a pair of Meta glasses in May. I have it lying here in the studio. I am a bit annoyed because the battery stopped working two weeks ago, and I probably have to take it to the store."
Compared favorably to AirPods and to using a phone with ChatGPT. He had a battery failure.
"Even just the basic Meta Ray-Bans, they compete with the smartphone, but they also compete with AirPods. The Meta Ray-Ban users that I know that like the product are like, well, I like them, but I often just take phone calls on them, lis..."
Compared to AirPods and the smartphone; positioned as a competitor to Snap Specs
What creators say
"I actually bought a pair of Meta glasses in May. I have it lying here in the studio. I am a bit annoyed because the battery stopped working two weeks ago, and I probably have to take it to the store."
More from Jack Raines →"I have a pair and I enjoy using it. It's fun. But that does not a story make yet."
More from Jimmy Iovine →"I wore the Meta Ray-Ban and then they started putting signs up saying do not wear these glasses in court. They are my prescription glasses."
More from Mike Isaac →
"If you thought you were being slick by watching Instagram reels on your Meta AI glasses like I am right now"
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"I had Ray-Ban bands on to film. I was wearing these glasses and they were recording and all you can hear on the recording is me weeping."
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"Muse is also going to power their Meta Ray-Ban glasses and it is a very important product to Meta."
More from Riley Brown →+1 more mention from Riley
"Now, these Meta Ray-Ban glasses will be connected to Muse. Straight up. Meta just released maybe the best consumer agent platform ever released. An..."
"Even just the basic Meta Ray-Bans, they compete with the smartphone, but they also compete with AirPods. The Meta Ray-Ban users that I know that like the product are like, well, I like them, but I often just take phone calls on them, listen to mus..."
More from John Coogan →+2 more mentions from John
"What is the meta Ray-Bans of MSL? What would remain? Because when they wind down one of these projects, sometimes you get a Meta Ray-Bans, which is..."
"Meta, I think, did a better job coming in with like, 'Yeah, it's just a pair of sunglasses. You need a pair of sunglasses anywhere.' We put a camer..."
"We have an exclusive with Ray-Ban. These are the Kylie Jenners. We also have Oakleys that are really cool for extreme sports."
More from Dina Powell McCormick →"I did a video recently called Iron Sights — using a bunch of computer vision models and the Meta Ray-Ban glasses and phones to be like, 'How can we 3D track both camera perspectives, fuse them together, and create essentially a spatial shot counter?'"
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"Meta glasses? How did he film this with his phone? Or is it Meta glasses or something?"
More from Jordi Hays →"I think Meta actually got it done pretty well with the Ray-Ban partnership. Those things look good. And I know a lot of people that have them, especially in Miami — people were wearing them all over the place."
More from Ben Ling →
"Meta did it better for a third of the cost. The Facebook Ray-Ban bands — the price point I think makes those a bit more viable right now in the short term."
More from Tom Bilyeu →
"Meta Ray-Ban recording you. Yeah, Amanda loves her. I had to literally ban her from the French Laundry Amanda because she was recording at the French Laundry."
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"More like the Ray-Ban bands that Zuckerberg's making."
"Meta Ray-Ban bands have done sort of the hard work of becoming the first face computer."
More from TBPN →+4 more mentions from TBPN
"Probably with the Ray-Ban bands they'll do it"
"they'll go up against the Meta Ray-Ban, which might be the more prudent business strategy"
"He put Meta Ray-Ban glasses on. So this guy did it before and he's like, I'm going to do it again. This is basically a training montage of a bank heist, but it's just streaking at the Super Bowl."
More from Chris Williamson →"The Meta Ray-Ban are considered a smash hit and they've sold fewer than 10 million units."
More from Mark Gurman →"that is the thing that I'm most excited about with glasses whether like me ray bands or what Apple's going to release later this year"
More from Adam Simon →Sponsored mentions
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