I wore Meta's $499 prescription Ray-Bans for 6 weeks: They're stylish but not for me

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Meta Ray-Ban Optics4 / 5Very good

pros and cons

  • Lighter frame.
  • Adjustable nose pieces.
  • Thinner frame style.
  • Meant for prescription eyeglass wearers.
  • Nosepieces are still molded.
  • The most expensive glasses Meta offers.

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Back in March, EssilorLuxotica, the parent company of Ray-Ban, unveiled a new version of its smart glasses for Meta called the Meta Ray-Ban Blayzer Optics. They're the company's first prescription-focused eyewear, designed to be worn all day long by glasses wearers with comfort at the forefront.

The includes new replaceable nosepieces as well as some improvements over previous-generation hardware, but in essence it's the same technology inside as other Gen 2 hardware, such as the Meta Ray-Ban Wayfarers.

The naming of Meta's Ray-Ban glasses is confusing, but there are two designs of the prescription Optics models: the Blayzer Optics, (which I tested) with...

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