Meta Glasses hands-on: Ray-Ban is out, Kylie Jenner is in - Engadget

Familiar styles that offer more adaptability for slightly less money than the Ray-Ban models. After years of releasing smart glasses that bore the Ray-Ban or Oakley brand, Meta has finally made its own (although still in collaboration with EssilorLuxottica). The company today unveiled a trio of AI Glasses — the Fury, the Adventurer and the Meta Glasses by Kylie (labeled in some places as "Starfire"), and the first two of those styles start at $299. The variant that was co-designed with celebrity Kylie Jenner will cost $399. At its launch event in New York City yesterday, Meta set us up with a pair of the new glasses and a companion phone, and let us roam around the venue and its demo areas somewhat freely. The company also had multiple units of the other styles around for us to pick up and try on as we liked, so I got a good sense of all the different options available. But first, the basics. The new line of Meta glasses, according to the company's VP of wearable devices Ming Hua, is "introduced by Meta and EssorLuxottica," and were built on "the same hardware platform as our best-selling AI glasses." You'll find a similar multi-array microphone setup, spatial audio and 3K video ca