Smart glasses have always had a basic problem for people like me. They looked cool in demos, sounded futuristic in press releases, and usually came with the same quiet catch. If you already wear glasses every day, you are expected to work around them. This meant adding prescription lenses later, settling for a fit that is not quite right, or treating the whole thing as a novelty instead of something you would actually wear throughout the day.
This is what makes Meta’s latest announcement more exciting. The company just unveiled its first prescription-optimized AI glasses, the Ray-Ban Meta Blayzer Optics (Gen 2) and Ray-Ban Meta Scriber Optics (Gen 2), and they are explicitly designed around people who rely on prescription eyewear all day.
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Meta says they support nearly all prescriptions, start at $499 in the US, and will be available at optical retailers beginning
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