At Meta Join 2025 on Wednesday, the corporate unveiled its new Oakley Meta Vanguard sensible glasses which can be geared towards runners, cyclists, and different athletes. The glasses retail for $499 and are launching on October 21.
Meta Join is the social networking big’s greatest convention of the 12 months, the place it unveils sensible glasses and VR headsets.
The glasses characteristic a big unified entrance lens, as an alternative of getting two cameras positioned on the high corners of the frames, which is in earlier Meta sensible glasses and the Oakley Meta HSTN mannequin. The brand new glasses can seize video in as much as 3K decision and have a 12-megapixel digital camera with a 122-degree wide-angle lens.
The Oakley Meta Vanguard sensible glasses characteristic a programmable button that may set off a customized AI immediate, which you’ll arrange utilizing the Meta AI app. Meta notes that all the buttons on the sensible glasses are situated beneath to permit athletes to put on helmets comfortably whereas utilizing them.
The Oakley Meta Vanguard glasses have as much as 9 hours of battery life, or as much as six hours of steady music playback. The glasses include a charging case that may present an extra 36 hours of cost on the go. Meta notes that customers can shortly cost the glasses to 50% in 20 minutes by way of the charging case.
Meta says the open-ear audio system, that are six decibels louder than Oakley Meta HSTN, are probably the most highly effective audio system but on any of its glasses. In addition they characteristic a five-microphone array optimized to cut back wind noise whereas on calls, messaging, or utilizing Meta AI together with your voice.
The glasses have an IP67 mud and water resistance score to be used throughout intense exercises, the very best but of any of Meta’s sensible glasses, in response to the corporate. Meta says the wraparound design of the glasses options Oakley PRIZMTM Lens expertise, which is designed to dam out solar, wind, and mud.
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Retaining with the athletic theme, the glasses might be built-in with Garmin smartwatches. Customers can ask the sensible glasses for stats akin to your coronary heart price and tempo whereas working, biking, or taking part in different actions. They’ll additionally combine with Strava; customers can graphically overlay their efficiency metrics onto movies and photographs captured with Oakley Meta Vanguard and share them on to their Strava group.
The glasses can be found in 4 body and lens colours: Oakley Meta Vanguard Black with PRIZMTM 24K, Oakley Meta Vanguard White with PRIZMTM Black, Oakley Meta Vanguard Black with PRIZMTM Street, and Oakley Meta Vanguard White with PRIZMTM Sapphire.
Oakley Meta Vanguard might be accessible in america, Canada, U.Okay., Eire, France, Italy, Spain, Austria, Belgium, Australia, Germany, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Denmark, Switzerland, and the Netherlands. Meta plans to launch the glasses in Mexico, India, Brazil, and the United Arab Emirates later this 12 months.
Wednesday’s announcement comes three months after Meta unveiled its Oakley Meta HSTN sensible glasses. On the time, the corporate stated the sensible glasses have been its “first product for athletes and followers alike.”
Meta additionally unveiled Wednesday its new pair of Ray-Ban branded sensible glasses with a built-in show for apps, photographs, and instructions alongside a wearable wristband to regulate them. Moreover, the tech big introduced its new Ray-Ban Meta 2 with as much as 2x the battery lifetime of the earlier mannequin and 3K Extremely HD video seize.
