I am a menace. I walk around, nattering constantly to myself. More accurately, I natter constantly to my sunglasses .
“Hey Meta, take a look. What kind of tree is that?” “Hey Meta, take a look. Does this concrete need resurfacing?” I’m listening to podcasts on my run through the built-in speakers.
I’m using the camera embedded in the frame to take pictures of my parents’ yard so I can send critical texts to the gardener. I’m using the onboard microphone to query the internet, checking to see if the food cart is open. My Meta Ray-Ban Wayfarers and I have grown inseparable.
I recently told my husband that I want to get a second pair with clear prescription lenses, so I can stop walking around the house at night wearing sunglasses. “Is that really what you want to do?” he asked, a bit nervously. Yes, it is what I want to do.
Unlike clunky goggles or recent AI-powered hardware swings like the Humane Ai pin or the Rabbit R1 , the Meta glasses are a stylish and useful addition to my technology quiver that integrate seamlessly into my real life. The future of wearable computing is here, and it looks just like Tom Cruise in Risky Business . If you buy something using links in our stories, we may earn a commission.
This helps support our journalism. Learn more . Photograph: Ray-Ban Let’s address the first, and most obvious, point with Meta's approach: sunglasses serve an actual purpose .
They protect my eyes and they keep me from squinting outside. Also, they hap.
