If you've been eyeing Ray-Ban's Meta smart glasses but balked at the price, Meta's Summer Sale is here to make you feel slightly less foolish about strapping a computer to your face. Running through May 26th, the company's biggest deal event outside Black Friday drops the original model to $224.25 ($74 off) at Amazon, Best Buy, and directly from Meta - matching its best price ever. The newer second-gen glasses also hit a new low of $322.25 ($57 off) at those same retailers.
Both models deliver the same core experience: they look like normal Ray-Bans, snap hands-free 1080p photos and short videos, livestream to Instagram or Facebook, and double as surprisingly capable open-ear headphones. A five-mic array keeps your voice clear on calls, and Meta's AI assistant can translate Spanish, French, and Italian in real time, answer questions about landmarks, brainstorm recipes from your fridge contents, remind you of appointments, and scan QR codes - basically everything except finding your keys.
The main upgrade in the Gen 2 model is sharper 3K video at 30fps (up from 1440 x 1920) and battery life that stretches to eight hours with heavy use, double the original's. That means you can comfortably wear them all day before recharging, assuming you want to look like a tech-support agent on vacation.