How Meta designed its new eyewear to appeal to smart glasses skeptics

How Meta designed its new eyewear to appeal to smart glasses skeptics

In the race to own your face real estate, Meta is doubling down on fashion with a new line of glasses.

Meta is now a fashion brand. Today, the tech company launched a new collection of smart glasses designed for the first time in-house and manufactured by its longtime partner EssilorLuxottica.“This is the first step of Meta taking a really hard pass at becoming relevant in the fashion glasses world,” Peter Bristol, the VP of Industrial Design at Meta, said during a press briefing yesterday. “I hope to earn that right with the products that we ship.”

The silhouettes are archetypal—a squarish rectangle (the Meta Adventurer), a chunkier squarish rectangle (the Meta Fury), and a slim oval (the Meta Starfire Kylie Edition, a........

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