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New Delhi: Meta has recently reported that they are planning to expand its Ray-Ban smart glasses lineup with a focus on users who wear prescription lenses. The company has also geared up to introduce two of the latest smart glasses, especially designed for vision correction needs.
These upcoming models will feature rectangular and rounded styles and are being developed with the prescription users in mind, instead of adapting existing designs.
Currently, the users can add prescription lenses to the existing Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses frame design, but the reports suggested that these latest versions would be purpose-built for that use case. The reports also indicated that the aspects such as the frame thickness, comfort, and battery life could see the improvements.
The glasses might be sold through the traditional prescription eyewear channels, indicating that Meta could extend beyond its current retail approach to reach more users who rely on corrective lenses.
Codenamed Scriber and Blazer have appeared in the US Federal Communications Commission filings. These have also been described as the production units, which typically signal that the launch might not be far away. The Blazer model could be available in a larger size.
The filings also reveal support for the Wi-Fi 6 UNII-4 band, which is not present in current models. This could enable faster data transfers, improving features such as livestreaming. Some reports also cited comments from Mark Zuckerberg, who stated that during the recent earnings call, billions of people wear glasses or contacts or vision correction, and that it’s hard to imagine a world in several years where most of the glasses that people wear aren’t AI glasses.
Meta has also indicated that the prescription smart glasses are a key step in making the AI wearables more mainstream.
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