Meta has officially launched the new Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses in collaboration with the eyewear giant EssilorLuxottica on March 31, marking further evolution of the series towards an "always-on AI terminal" for all-day and frequent use.
This update introduces two new frame designs, Ray-Ban Meta Blayzer Optics and Scriber Optics. While maintaining a lightweight design, they focus on enhancing support for prescription lenses, compatible with various complex optical solutions including progressive multifocal and photochromic lenses. The starting price of the new product has been raised to $499, significantly higher than the previous standard version, and does not include additional costs that may reach hundreds of dollars for custom lens fitting, indicating Meta's strategic inclination towards high-end vertical demands in the smart wearable market.
At the same time as optimizing the hardware form, Meta also released several updates to AI core functions. Relying on the visual and voice processing capabilities of Meta AI, the glasses now support real-time translation for Japanese, Mandarin, and Arabic, and introduced a dietary nutrition tracking feature based on visual recognition.
In addition, Meta AI has made significant upgrades in interaction logic, enabling intelligent summary extraction for long conversations, solving the interaction bottleneck of lightweight devices in information overload scenarios. As the new product is scheduled to be officially sold on April 14 and distributed through thousands of offline channels worldwide, smart glasses are transitioning from a niche product for tech enthusiasts into an AI gateway with practical productivity. This approach of "hard technology + strong fashion + deep AI" not only broadens the application boundaries of multimodal large models but also provides a clearer paradigm reference for mobile computing forms in the post-smartphone era.
