Halfway through watching it, I was wondering if they also owned my eye "insurance" company, EyeMed, since the chains they showed they own are all the ones EyeMed makes you go to. I always felt like it wasn't true insurance....more of a discount plan that you pay to join. Sure enough..... As much as the government steps in to stop monopolies, I wonder how this was allowed to happen. I just buy generic readers now on e-bay and have one pair of prescription Zenni glasses (which I just checked to make sure weren't also owned by them).
Thanks for the video.
The only true independent was Maui Jim. But they sold off in 2022.
At least it wasn’t to Luxottica.
I knew I'd seen those somewhere before.
I knew I'd seen those somewhere before.
I would not mind smart glasses as I wear glasses already and if they can be purchased with prescription lenses. I do not like the idea of a camera taking pictures/video, that is creepy.
The dream is actual AR. Not cameras feeding you a latent view of your environment. No one is going to walk around looking at a video of their environment instead of actual vision. The most ironic part of vision pro is its name: vision is the one thing it disables.It will be interesting to see when Apple jumps into the ring. Obviously the ultimate dream is to have a full Vision OS experience in this form factor but we have a ways to go.
Will they come in with basic audio, AI and camera functions or will they compete with Google and also add in basic display functions? Hopefully the latter.
I think that ship has sailed. People are taking photo and video all the time, and you are always being recorded.I would not mind smart glasses as I wear glasses already and if they can be purchased with prescription lenses. I do not like the idea of a camera taking pictures/video, that is creepy.
Not many anymore but the ones i can think of are Moscot, Garrett Leight, Warby ParkerJust realized Ray-Ban and Oakley are owned by the same parent company. I was going to compliment Meta signing deals with different companies, thinking maybe they were trying to lock Apple, Google, etc. out of making a similar product. Is there another trendy sunglasses brand that is independent?
Not really the majority will let us know that they will never use anything meta.I suspect the majority of comments here will be people tumbling over each other to lambaste the 8-hour battery life.
right this is really dumb, i'm dude so your going to post my conversation on youtubeYeah but anyone I knows starts wearing smart glasses with a camera pointed at my face the entire time during convos and private moments, I’ll just stop hanging out with them.
Smartphones have already doomed us with doomscrolling, social media, short form videos, and countless other ways to keep us addicted and disengaged from the real world while seriously harming our mental health. Now imagine that but hacked up to 100 with smart glasses taking over your vision 24/7 and a camera always running.
Nope, I’m checking out.
That is bad for marketing. No one is going to buy it now. 😂
I have the Ray-Ban versions, and thought I might be interested in these, but you're right, the design for these looks way worse somehow. I think the existing Ray Ban Wayfarer glasses were the ideal glasses for this, since they were already a little chunky to begin with. They're definitely not as conspicuous as these (also because they're black and the cameras don't stick out as much. I know a couple people who have the Ray Ban versions and didn't even know they were Meta glasses.)I think all Oakley frames are ugly, but wear a prescription pair for cycling. I just looked at the HSTN line that the Meta frames are based on and the originals with those chunky angles are not that much better looking without the added bulk in the Meta version to accommodate the technology.
Sorry, but to me, the design resembles something you might find in the toy aisle at Target.