As Meta continues to double down on smart glasses, the company is apparently gearing up to launch a pair of Ray-Ban smart glasses that are specifically designed for those who already wear prescription glasses.
Bloomberg reports that Meta is planning to launch two new pairs of AI smart glasses with “rectangular and rounded styles” that would specifically be designed for those who require prescription lenses.
You can already add prescription lenses to existing Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses, but these new models would apparently be designed especially for that use case. How they might differ is unclear, but we’d speculate that battery life and frame thickness/weight could be a part of the equation. Again, that’s just a guess.
These new models would apparently be sold through “traditional prescription eyewear channels.”
The Verge reports that these two new models, “Scriber” and “Blazer,” hit FCC filings with the note that they are production models, suggesting a launch is coming sooner than later. Those filings also reveal that “Blazer” would be available in a larger size, and that the glasses will support the Wi-Fi 6 UNII-4 band, which existing models do not. That suggests improvements under the hood, and this band in particular is good at high-speed data transfers, perhaps to be used for livestreaming.
It’s further noted by Bloomberg that Mark Zuckerberg said during a Meta earnings call that “billions of people wear glasses or contacts for vision correction” and that “it’s hard to imagine a world in several years where most glasses that people wear aren’t AI glasses,” possibly hinting at this launch.
There’s no indication of a display on these glasses, not that it would be expected.
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