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Meta makes some of the best Smart glasses We’ve tested them at CNET, and now several are launching New frame styles. It includes support for prescription lenses and aims to make the glasses more viable as an all-day device that won’t look out of place with your daily wear.
Meanwhile, Meta is also rolling out features that allow its smart glasses to analyze what you’re looking at to estimate calories, summarize messages from apps like WhatsApp, and provide contextual assistance through built-in AI.
Here’s what’s new.
New styles with “prescription enhanced” glasses.
The 2025 Meta Ray-Ban Gen 2 versus the 2023 model I’m wearing, both Wayfarer in matte black. Can you even tell the difference, except for prescription lenses?
Meta introduces two new frame styles with Ray-Ban Meta Optics Styles. There is a rectangular Blayzer Optics frame available in standard and large sizes, and a lighter and slimmer Sriber Optics round frame.
Color options include matte black, matte sheer ice grey, and sheer stone beige. There’s also a dark brown carrying case for the new line.
The new models come with a new brown charging and carrying case
The new eyeglasses are available for pre-order in the US starting at $499, with availability starting April 14.
The Ray-Ban Meta Gen 2 and Oakley Meta lines are also getting a broad lens expansion, with new color and lens combinations. These include Prizm Dark Golf lenses, which provide better vibrancy, contrast and color enhancement on the golf course, and Prizm Transitions, which adapt to outside light.
Meta AI wants to analyze your camera feed and count calories
Meta Ray-Ban’s second generation (or third generation if you count stories) glasses are getting a major battery boost that has changed the way you wear them.
The biggest feature update to the software comes with Meta AI’s increased ability to analyze camera feeds from glasses. Now you can log meals by simply looking at the food or taking a quick photo, with the system estimating nutritional information and tracking food intake over time. (You may want to double-check that the AI feature is getting things done right. AI tools have been known to do hallucinationor configure information with confidence.)
As part of its early access program, Meta is also expanding messaging features. Its glasses can now summarize incoming messages, including incoming messages WhatsAppand allows you to respond via voice by asking “Hey Meta, follow me on my messages,” creating a brief summary of the group chat. You can also request specific details from the group chat, such as “What did Jimmy suggest for dinner?” If you want to select specific information from the conversation.
According to Meta, voice interactions are processed on-device and are end-to-end encrypted. The feature will be available to Early Access users on Ray-Ban Meta, Oakley Meta, and Meta Ray-Ban Display eyewear.
Features of the new Meta Ray-Ban display
Scott Stein was able to use Meta Neural Band to control smart glasses.
One of the biggest new capabilities involves adding features to the Ray-Ban display. There is now support for Instagram reels On glasses, as well as a dedicated Spotify shortcut at the bottom of the media player for faster access to recently played tracks and playlists.
The Meta has added two new games – puzzle game 2048 and platformer GOAT – which can be played on screen and controlled with Neuro Meta Squad.
There are also new widgets to look at for Reminders, Weather, Stocks, and Calendar on the home screen, as well as a new Calendar app that integrates with Google Calendar and Outlook to view and manage scheduling privately.
The Neural Handwriting feature allows you to write a message on any surface and works with a number of applications.
Perhaps most interesting is Neural Handwriting, which should be released in the coming weeks. The feature allows you to write on any surface to silently reply to messages. This feature will work on Meta’s messaging applications such as WhatsApp and Messenger, as well as… iMessage And my homeland Android Messaging.
In the spring, Meta also expects to roll out dual video recording, which lets you record both view and point-of-view video simultaneously. The file combines both video and audio into one video that can be shared directly with friends and followers.
For globe fans, the Meta also has something for them in this update. Ray-Ban Meta and Oakley Meta eyewear will be available in more international markets (Japan, Korea, Singapore, Chile, Colombia and Peru) and will feature live translation in 20 languages, including Mandarin, Korean, Japanese and Arabic.
Meta representatives did not immediately respond to a request for additional comment about the capabilities.