Meta is reportedly making ready to launch a pair of Oakley sensible glasses as quickly as later this 12 months. In keeping with a brand new Bloomberg report, Meta plans to broaden its AI-powered eyewear lineup past its current partnership with Ray-Ban. The report states that the brand new glasses shall be primarily based on Oakley’s Sphaera mannequin, which is designed for athletes like runners and cyclists, and would characteristic a digicam positioned nearer to the middle of the body for improved seize.
A consultant for Meta didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.
Oakley is a part of Luxottica, which additionally owns a portfolio of high-end vogue eyewear manufacturers, together with Ray-Ban, suggesting Meta may additional broaden its sensible glasses choices throughout extra manufacturers sooner or later.
These efforts goal to strengthen Meta’s place in AI, in addition to in augmented and digital actuality, the place the corporate has invested closely for years regardless of lagging shopper adoption.
Like Meta’s Ray-Ban assortment of sensible glasses, the Oakley model is predicted to supply related options, together with AI instruments and the power to take images and movies and work together by way of voice instructions. Nonetheless, this mannequin won’t embrace a show, the report stated.
On the identical time, Meta is reportedly creating a extra superior pair of sensible glasses, codenamed “Hypernova,” which is able to characteristic a built-in show to indicate notifications from its sensible assistant. This mannequin, anticipated to launch later this 12 months, may embrace temple controls on the body and should ship with a wrist strap that allows extra controls.
The report additionally states that Meta is contemplating launching new wearable gadgets, together with watches and earbuds with built-in cameras that analyze the encompassing setting in actual time.
Each merchandise could be a part of the broader push to combine AI extra deeply into shopper gadgets and higher compete with the Apple Watch and AirPods. Bloomberg additionally stories that Apple has explored including cameras to its personal earbuds.