Meta unveils its new Oakley Meta Vanguard smart glasses for athletes

At Meta Connect 2025 connected Wednesday, the institution unveiled its caller Oakley Meta Vanguard astute glasses that are geared toward runners, cyclists, and different athletes. The glasses retail for $499 and are launching connected October 21.

Meta Connect is the societal networking giant’s biggest league of the year, wherever it unveils astute glasses and VR headsets.

The glasses diagnostic a ample unified beforehand lens, alternatively of having 2 cameras positioned astatine the apical corners of the frames, which is successful erstwhile Meta astute glasses and the Oakley Meta HSTN model. The caller glasses tin seizure video successful up to 3K solution and diagnostic a 12-megapixel camera with a 122-degree wide-angle lens.

The Oakley Meta Vanguard astute glasses diagnostic a programmable fastener that tin trigger a customized AI prompt, which you tin acceptable up utilizing the Meta AI app. Meta notes that each of the buttons connected the astute glasses are located underneath to let athletes to deterioration helmets comfortably portion utilizing them.

The Oakley Meta Vanguard glasses person up to 9 hours of artillery life, oregon up to six hours of continuous euphony playback. The glasses travel with a charging lawsuit that tin supply an further 36 hours of complaint connected the go. Meta notes that users tin rapidly complaint the glasses to 50% successful 20 minutes via the charging case.

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Meta says the open-ear speakers, which are six decibels louder than Oakley Meta HSTN, are the astir almighty speakers yet connected immoderate of its glasses. They besides diagnostic a five-microphone array optimized to trim upwind sound portion connected calls, messaging, oregon utilizing Meta AI with your voice.

The glasses person an IP67 particulate and h2o absorption standing for usage during aggravated workouts, the highest yet of immoderate of Meta’s astute glasses, according to the company. Meta says the wraparound plan of the glasses features Oakley PRIZMTM Lens technology, which is designed to artifact retired sun, wind, and dust.

Keeping with the diversion theme, the glasses tin beryllium integrated with Garmin smartwatches. Users tin inquire the astute glasses for stats specified arsenic your bosom complaint and gait portion running, cycling, oregon participating successful different activities. They tin besides integrate with Strava; users tin graphically overlay their show metrics onto videos and photos captured with Oakley Meta Vanguard and stock them straight to their Strava community.

The glasses are disposable successful 4 framework and lens colors: Oakley Meta Vanguard Black with PRIZMTM 24K, Oakley Meta Vanguard White with PRIZMTM Black, Oakley Meta Vanguard Black with PRIZMTM Road, and Oakley Meta Vanguard White with PRIZMTM Sapphire.

Oakley Meta Vanguard volition beryllium disposable successful the United States, Canada, U.K., Ireland, France, Italy, Spain, Austria, Belgium, Australia, Germany, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Denmark, Switzerland, and the Netherlands. Meta plans to motorboat the glasses successful Mexico, India, Brazil, and the United Arab Emirates aboriginal this year.

Wednesday’s announcement comes 3 months aft Meta unveiled its Oakley Meta HSTN astute glasses. At the time, the institution said the astute glasses were its “first merchandise for athletes and fans alike.”

Meta besides unveiled Wednesday its caller brace of Ray-Ban branded astute glasses with a built-in show for apps, photos, and directions alongside a wearable wristband to power them. Additionally, the tech elephantine announced its caller Ray-Ban Meta 2 with up to 2x the artillery beingness of the erstwhile exemplary and 3K Ultra HD video capture.