Meta and Snap battle for your face
The Vergecast

Meta and Snap battle for your face

B2Upper-intermediateSeptember 24, 202631 min

Meta and Snap both want to get on your face. The Verge's Victoria Song and Jay Peters tried out all the new hardware: Specs, audio-only Ray Bans, and Meta VR. Today, they join guest host David Imel to talk about how these new smart glasses feel, both physically and emotionally. Further reading: Meta’s next VR device isn’t a headset — it’s glasses Meta ditches the camera on its newest smart glasses I wore Snap’s $2,200 smart glasses Subscribe to The Verge for unlimited access to theverge.com, subscriber-e...

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There's new Ray-Ban Metas, including an audio-only version and some new VR glasses.

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Welcome to the VergeCast, the flagship podcast of the Metaverse. Still, I'm David Amell, and today we're talking about smart glasses. Meta announced a boatload of new glasses last night. There's new Ray-Ban Metas, including an audio-only version and some new VR glasses.

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