{"id":279536,"date":"2026-06-23T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/23\/meta-is-now-designing-its-own-cheaper-ai-smart-glasses\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T10:25:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T14:25:14","slug":"meta-is-now-designing-its-own-cheaper-ai-smart-glasses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/23\/meta-is-now-designing-its-own-cheaper-ai-smart-glasses\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta is now designing its own, cheaper AI smart glasses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2026\/06\/23\/tech\/meta-glasses-price\">Meta is now designing its own, cheaper AI smart glasses<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2026\/06\/23\/tech\/meta-glasses-price\">https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2026\/06\/23\/tech\/meta-glasses-price<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-23 09:00:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.cnn.com\">www.cnn.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>        <strong class=\"ai-article-summary__title\"><br \/>\n            <span class=\"ai-article-summary__stars-icon\"><\/p>\n<p><\/span><br \/>\n            <span>Summary<\/span><br \/>\n        <\/strong><br \/>\n            <span class=\"ai-article-summary__toggle-caret-up\" aria-label=\"Toggle Article Summary\"><br \/>\n<\/span><br \/>\n            <span class=\"ai-article-summary__toggle-caret-down\" aria-label=\"Toggle Article Summary\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<ul class=\"ai-article-summary__items\" data-editable=\"settings\">\n<li class=\"ai-article-summary__item\">Meta unveiled its own line of AI-powered smart glasses starting at $299, which is cheaper than the newest Ray-Ban models.<\/li>\n<li class=\"ai-article-summary__item\">The glasses can translate languages, play music and answer questions about surroundings.<\/li>\n<li class=\"ai-article-summary__item\">Meta dominates the smart glasses market with nearly 70% market share, but faces growing competition from Google and Samsung.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\n            <span class=\"ai-article-summary__disclaimer-text\">AI-generated summary was reviewed by a CNN editor.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_elevate\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmqqkkbre002427qg7086g2ej@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Meta on Tuesday announced a new line of AI glasses designed in-house, signaling a deeper push into the wearable technology that\u2019s become a new front in the artificial intelligence race.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_elevate\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmqqm4mad00003b6rxnrw4j3h@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            And the biggest change consumers will notice? A cheaper price tag.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_elevate\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmqqm4mae00013b6r9lmataku@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            The new Meta Glasses will start at $299, making them less expensive than the latest Ray-Ban models which begin at $379. And that could help get them in the hands of more people, which is critical for Meta as it faces pressure to prove its massive AI investments will generate hit products.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_elevate\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmqqm4mae00023b6romycj9kd@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cYou really want to be able to be in many places in the market, so reaching people isn\u2019t just about even design and style, it\u2019s also about the price point,\u201d Andrew Bosworth, Meta\u2019s chief technology officer, said during a press event on Monday.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_elevate\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmqqm5mcu00073b6ril5l0u0s@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            The Meta-designed glasses represent a departure from the co-branded spectacles the social media giant previously released with EssilorLuxottica\u2019s Ray-Ban and Oakley. (Meta still partners with EssilorLuxottica on certain aspects of the new glasses, like the lenses, and continues to sell the Ray-Ban and Oakley models.)\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_elevate\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmqqm5okf00093b6r1o4wm57z@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Bosworth added that consumers are willing to pay a premium for Ray-Ban&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2026\/06\/23\/tech\/meta-glasses-price\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meta is now designing its own, cheaper AI smart glasses https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2026\/06\/23\/tech\/meta-glasses-price Publish Date: 2026-06-23 09:00:00&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":279537,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/c-img-0270.jpg?c=16x9&q=w_800,c_fill","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-279536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279536"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279536"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":279538,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279536\/revisions\/279538"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/279537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}