Meta’s New Smart Glasses Got a Subtle Name Change. It Speaks Volumes About What’s Wrong With Them
The whole experience – of the quality of the screen itself, to gestural controls and capacities on glasses – all feel polished and intuitive, in particular since it is the first commercial blow of Meta in such a product.
But here is the problem: as impressive as they are, I would still not buy them. Apart from fans of technology and first adopters, I don’t think many people will do it. Not this iteration anyway. And it is not even because of the undoubtedly impactful price of $ 800.
What really allows them is their aesthetics, and this is not what I expected from society that made such success of the original Ray-Ban metas because of their design. While the originals (and their successors just announced) are essentially similar to Ray-Ban glasses, these, in what can only be described as a flagrant misstep, are far from first fashion. They look like smart glasses, but the old guy you don’t really want to be seen.
Oh, there is a wayfarer puff on the Meta Ray-Ban display; You can say that the intention is there to try to reproduce the success of the most popular Ray-Ban style. But in a way, distant alarm ringtones sound. Even if the “declaration glasses” are fashionable, it’s just a bit Also Chunky to blend.
At a glance, you can say that something Continue with them. We arrived in the strange valley of Smart Lunes, where the subtle bulges and the circumference of the frames require your attention, but not in the right direction.
Interesting, there East A subtle wink to this change of aesthetics in the denomination structure. While the original Ray-Ban meta-lunes lead with the Ray-Ban brand on their behalf, the Meta Ray-Ban display switch which is concentrated. Which of the two brands made this call was not clearly indicated, but these are self -proclaimed glasses of Meta, and which resemble a false step, in particular given the experience that Meta already has on the market.
