Oakley Meta HSTN glasses are official, after months of rumors and a tease earlier this week.
Ray-Ban and Oakley are both owned by EssilorLuxottica, the eyewear giant with which Meta last year secured an agreement extending their partnership “into the next decade”.
The partnership has been a success so far, with EssilorLuxottica announcing in February that 2 million Ray-Ban Meta glasses had been sold, as it vowed to increase annual production capacity to 10 million units by the end of 2026. Now, it’s expanding to Oakley.
The companies say the Oakley Meta HSTN glasses have 8 hours of battery life in typical use, compared to the 4 hours of the Ray-Ban Meta glasses. They also capture 3K video, up from 1080p.
Other than these improvements, Oakley Meta HSTN glasses function the same way as Ray-Ban Meta. They’re screenless smart glasses with a camera, microphones, and speakers. You can use them to capture photos and videos, listen to music/podcasts/audiobooks, make and receive calls, share your first-person view on WhatsApp/Messenger/Instagram video calls, translate speech, scan QR codes, and query Meta AI, the company’s LLM-based assistant that can see via the camera when you ask about something in view. It’ll also read out some phone notifications, if you want.
Oakley Meta HSTN glasses are not replacing Ray-Ban Meta, to be clear. They’re a slightly higher end option, aimed at athletes and smart glasses power users.
Like the existing Ray-Ban Meta glasses, Oakley Meta HSTN glasses are IPX4 water resistant, meaning they repel splashing water, but aren’t rated for water jets or submersion.
Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman was the first to report the existence of an Oakley smart glasses project at Meta.
His January report claimed that the glasses would have a camera in the center, instead of on a temple, but the Oakley Meta HSTN glasses do not.
It’s rare for Gurman to get such a core detail of a product wrong, so it’s possible that Meta was once planning a design with a centered camera, or that it plans one for the future.
Oakley Meta HSTN glasses will be available “later this summer”, starting at $400, in the US, Canada, the UK, Ireland, France, Italy, Spain, Austria, Belgium, Australia, Germany, Sweden, Norway, Finland, and Denmark.
The glasses will come in six frame and lens color combinations:
Additionally, preorders for a limited edition model with gold accents and gold 24K Polar lenses will open on July 11, priced at $500.
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