Meta Connect Mixed Reality AI Ray Ban Sunglasses - $429

And other highlights from Meta Connect 2024

Man wearing Ray Ban Smart Sunglasses

Everything announced at Meta Connect 2024

By Kylie Robison, a senior AI reporter working with The Verge's policy and tech teams. She previously worked at Fortune Magazine and Business Insider.

Meta’s annual Connect conference has begun in Menlo Park, California, so we’ve tried on its new Orion AR glasses with Mark Zuckerberg and listened through a whole lot of AI news.

Over the past year, Meta has made a big push to integrate AI features into the platforms it owns, and it’s not slowing down, with more image generator prompts in your feed, celebrity chatbot voices, and a new AI model: Llama 3.2.

There are also Meta’s smart glasses with Ray-Ban, which can remember things for you wholesale, and the Meta Quest line of headsets, which is saying goodbye to the Quest 2 and Quest Pro while adding the new Quest 3S.

Read on below for all of the details from Meta Connect 2024.

Highlights

• Mark Zuckerberg says there’s ‘no causal connection’ between social media and teen mental health

• Mark Zuckerberg: creators and publishers ‘overestimate the value’ of their work for training AI

• The biggest news from Meta Connect 2024

• Why Mark Zuckerberg thinks AR glasses will replace your phone

• Meta’s big tease

• Meta’s Ray-Bans will now ‘remember’ things for you

• Meta’s AI can now talk to you in the voices of Awkwafina, John Cena, and Judi Dench

• Meta’s going to put AI-generated images in your Facebook and Instagram feeds

• Meta releases its first open AI model that can process images

• Meta’s cheaper Quest 3S might just be an upgrade

• TODAY, 27 MINUTES AGO

  SEAN HOLLISTER

  Turns out, there are only 7,500 of those clear Meta Ray-Bans...

  They’re on sale now for $429 — an extra $100 more than the other translucent models — and are only available in the “standard” size. The limited-edition frames do come with transition lenses and “an exclusive custom-designed black case.” Meta normally charges a $50 premium for Transitions.

  Here’s our story about them and their new features.

• Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge

• read more at:

https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/25/24250234/meta-connect-rayban-glasses-orion-ai-llama

youtube video on how to get your ray ban mixed reality smart glasses started up:

youtube.com/watch?v=uzlupvvB3tE