Ray-Ban Meta Optics review: A better fit comes with a higher price
Key takeaways
- The expensive, prescription-ready smart glasses have a premium fit and a few extra features.
- That's the basic premise of Meta's "Optics" line of Ray-Ban eyewear.
- With the Optics line, though, Meta and Essilor Luxottica tweaked their second-generation Ray-Ban frames to make them more suited to people who are glasses-wearers by necessity, not just by choice.
The expensive, prescription-ready smart glasses have a premium fit and a few extra features.
Karissa Bell for Engadget RATING : 7.4 / 10 Pros Action button adds more flexibility Better fit and more "normal" looking frames Solid battery life Cons Meta AI feels a bit nosy Extremely expensive What if your prescription glasses could also be smart glasses? That's the basic premise of Meta's "Optics" line of Ray-Ban eyewear. The company has supported prescription lenses in many of its frames for years, but custom lenses were never really a primary use case.
With the Optics line, though, Meta and Essilor Luxottica tweaked their second-generation Ray-Ban frames to make them more suited to people who are glasses-wearers by necessity, not just by choice. The frames come with extra customizable elements that make them more similar to the regular glasses you'd get from your eye doctor, but are otherwise broadly similar to the rest of the Gen 2 lineup.