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New Ray-Ban Meta Smart Sunglasses

PickyPicky3 — Fri, 20 Oct 2023 19:26:47 GMT

Livestreams to Facebook and Instagram and reads people's comments to you in real time. Oh how I wish I had a lifestyle that would justify this purchase. Starts at $299. Description:

That's Ray-Ban's long paragraph. Sorry.

Re: New Ray-Ban Meta Smart Sunglasses

KLm — Fri, 20 Oct 2023 19:40:19 GMT

@PickyPicky3 I have had a pair of bluetooth Bose sunglasses for a couple of years. Idk if they do all the Ray-Bans do, but I bought them to listen to music, not anything else.

Re: New Ray-Ban Meta Smart Sunglasses

Bookplate — Fri, 20 Oct 2023 19:56:53 GMT

Honestly, this sounds like something Maxwell Smart would have worn in Get Smart.

The Swiss army knife of eyewear?

Sounds gimicky, with many things that could go wrong.

Re: New Ray-Ban Meta Smart Sunglasses

PickyPicky3 — Fri, 20 Oct 2023 20:10:57 GMT

@Bookplate I think these glasses have exactly the features people want. Imagine communicating handsfree in an antique shop with your best friend/expert who can't leave home. Or searching for truffles in a forest and taking your 5,000 followers along.

Re: New Ray-Ban Meta Smart Sunglasses

Marp — Fri, 20 Oct 2023 20:21:28 GMT

Being a true homebody I would not have a legitimate use for the glasses but could justify them as a safety measure just as I did with my car cam.

Of course to be of any real use I would have to use FB or another media where livestreaming is available. I do not currently use any.

Re: New Ray-Ban Meta Smart Sunglasses

Sooner — Fri, 20 Oct 2023 20:28:17 GMT

I think for most of us the greatest percentage of what we own is probably not what we need. I emphasize"need."

Re: New Ray-Ban Meta Smart Sunglasses

SilleeMee — Fri, 20 Oct 2023 20:31:31 GMT

Spy glasses...creepy to me.

Re: New Ray-Ban Meta Smart Sunglasses

Bookplate — Fri, 20 Oct 2023 21:12:43 GMT

@PickyPicky3 wrote:
@Bookplate I think these glasses have exactly the features people want. Imagine communicating handsfree in an antique shop with your best friend/expert who can't leave home. Or searching for truffles in a forest and taking your 5,000 followers along.

Quite frankly I would rather have root canal than livestream searching for truffles in a forest, but that's just me. For those who feel it necessary to share every hour of their fascinating lives with the world, enjoy the toy.

Re: New Ray-Ban Meta Smart Sunglasses

GenXmuse — Fri, 20 Oct 2023 21:29:34 GMT

My husband is a techie and got his today and is enjoying testing it out. I don't thinks it's something I would use but I'm glad he got it for himself

Re: New Ray-Ban Meta Smart Sunglasses

Squirrels Are Trash — Sat, 21 Oct 2023 15:46:41 GMT

Remember Google Glass from 2013?

At the time my employer spent a bajillion in AdWords, so Google sent us a few pairs.

Of course, my younger group jumped all over them and we had to forbid them in the office during standups or planning meetings. The term used for them at the time was "glassholes."

It's nice to see the glasses have consumer applications, back then they were pushing the B2B angle.