{"id":174547,"date":"2023-10-21T16:23:44","date_gmt":"2023-10-21T21:23:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/the-ray-ban-meta-smart-glasses-actually-make-the-future-look-cool"},"modified":"2023-10-21T16:23:44","modified_gmt":"2023-10-21T21:23:44","slug":"the-ray-ban-meta-smart-glasses-actually-make-the-future-look-cool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/the-ray-ban-meta-smart-glasses-actually-make-the-future-look-cool","title":{"rendered":"The Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses actually make the future look cool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-ray-ban-meta-smart-glasses-actually-make-the-future-look-cool2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>While Meta hasn\u2019t reinvented the category, it\u2019s nailed the execution. But culturally, is the timing right for smart glasses?<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m a smart glasses skeptic. Not because the technology is impossible but because I\u2019ve tested several pairs and even dove deep into the category for a two-part mini-documentary a while back. So when I say I was impressed by the $299 Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses, it\u2019s not just that mine came with rose-colored lenses.<\/p>\n<p>To be clear, nothing about the Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses is revolutionary. The Google Glass Explorer Edition first introduced us to modern-day smart glasses in 2013. Several other companies, big and small, have since jumped on the bandwagon, including Snap, \u2026 More.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Still a novelty, but one that people might actually use.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While Meta hasn\u2019t reinvented the category, it\u2019s nailed the execution. But culturally, is the timing right for smart glasses? I\u2019m a smart glasses skeptic. Not because the technology is impossible but because I\u2019ve tested several pairs and even dove deep into the category for a two-part mini-documentary a while back. So when I say I [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-174547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174547\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}