The Company Behind Ugly Gold Phones Is Now Making Ugly Gold Smart Glasses

Smart glasses have enjoyed quite a few rites of passage this year. There’s been widespread backlash and prohibition, Kardashian-adjacent endorsements with glitzy ad campaigns, and Lorde got in on the action to say, “… f*ck the glasses.” Even with all of that, the landmarks aren’t done quite yet—there’s still some juice in the smart glasses going mainstream tank, and this particular flavor of juice is full of garish gold accents. Like many mobile phones before them, smart glasses—Ray-Ban Meta AI glasses, in particular—are now getting the treatment from Caviar, a company best known for making prohibitively expensive gold-covered phones that are tacky enough to make Donald Trump’s interior decorator blush. Introducing: a $6,840 pair of Ray-Ban Meta AI glasses called “Odyssey.” In keeping with other Caviar abominations, the Odyssey smart glasses—which are indeed named after the Greek epic—pull from the same playbook. There’s a lot of 24-karat gold in various locations, like the top of the glasses, the tips of the arms, and accents near the hinges where you’ll find the Caviar name emblazoned. Even the capture button has gold slapped on it, so you can feel extremely fancy while covertly