Customer Ratings & Reviews

I bought this as my very first AI glasses. And it did not disappoint. The battery life is amazing i went to bigsur all day and it didnt died on me, it shoots 3k videos very clear and the audio is crisp. The speakers on the ears are nice with auto adjustment volume option bases on background noise. The fit it snug fit, does not hurt, the polarized lens helped a lot when outdoors. The charging case is sturdy and charges the oakley meta fast. Over all highly recommended, high price but high quality as well. Im glad i was able to buy this limited edition.

Coming from the Gen 1 Meta Wayfarer the bold style of the Oakley Meta HSTN is an acquired taste. Well, for the most part Oakley enthusiasts are built different. What I love about the Meta HSTN is the improved battery life, the fit on my nose and a bit of improvement on the sound quality via the tiny bump in bass. It did solve my irks about the Gen 1 Wayfarer but didn't fulfill the wish of a centered camera and an IP 67 rating, well they released the Vanguard for that. For $399 you get a decent earphone, sunglasses and camera all rolled into one every day carry. That's enough for me. The promise of future features like the slow motion and hyperlapse option makes me think twice about getting the Vanguards. I would love to have the conversation focus that they showcased during Meta Connect as well. As of today, they haven't rolled out to my Meta HSTN yet.

Oakley Meta Glasses are amazing, clear to tint works almost instantly. Audio and controls easy and simple just like the Raybans, with these you get double the battery life, case holds more charge, and better picture/video quality. Are they expensive? Slightly, however many brand name sunglasses on the market are between $150-300, while only being one dimensional sunglasses. Meta Ai needs a bit more work just like every other Ai but for broad questions like how’s the weather or math conversions it’s very convenient. Live Ai is a cool option if you want to have a conversation with Ai or ask questions back to back. Photo and video quality are as good your iPhone.

The Oakley Meta shades build upon the exceptional technology found in the Rayban Metas that I still use. With an extended battery life of 8 hours compared to the previous 4 hours, they offer all-day wearability. Additionally, the inclusion of 3K video levels significantly enhances the quality, surpassing what I experience on my iPhone. This special edition stands out with its distinctive gold lenses and white frames, which have garnered numerous compliments and have become my preferred choice for outdoor sports and capturing stunning shots at concerts, theme parks, and various other events.

The Oakley Meta sunglasses blend Oakley’s signature sporty style with smart tech from Meta. They offer crisp 3K photo capture, AI-assisted features, and solid battery life. Sleek, connected, and performance-driven—perfect for active users who want both function and flair.

Love these AI glasses! The frame is unique in color--black on the top and sides and clear on the bottom. They do not slide down my nose. I wear a small frame --48-50 is the number I typically look for and this frame fit me better than most AI RayBan styles. The transition lens works well by quickly changing in the sun and then back to clear. I like to wear them when I walk my dog to listen to music. It is great to ask Meta questions, but make sure you word your question in several ways. I have found that some of my questions do not get answered well enough, so I then rephrase my question to get a more detailed answer. I like working with the glasses on so I can listen to music in a busy workplace without others noticing. If you take a photo- it has a wide angle lens, so if you want a close up you would need to be pretty close up. Video quality and photo quality is great.

I am blown away by the AI in these glasses. I went up to my tree and Said "Hey Meta, what am I looking at"... Meta responded... "It appears to be a tree." I then said, "What kind of tree is it?"... Meta had me take a photo with the glasses and then reaponded... "The tree you are looking at is a Silver Maple, Acer saccharinum". They can also translate languages for you. Crazy! The only CON I have is that they are hard to hear in loud scenerios like a ball game. The transition lenses are nice, but since they are Oakleys, I would get the sunglass versions. You can buy clear replacement lenses and switch them out for indoors.

Super excited to get these they worked really great the first week and then just started having issues by the 2nd and 3rd week. Weren’t holding a charge even after charging still wouldn’t hold a charge. I hardly was able to use them because they wouldn’t hold a charge. Would not pair automatically like they did when I first got them. Making calls the other person could not hear me and I was told I sounded static or robotic. I tried to trouble shoot I unpaired them/ reset them made sure there were no recent updates nothing helped. These were very defective. I kept them for about 4 weeks and had to return them I couldn’t use them very disappointed. I will repurchase them and give another pair a try but having issues this early on wasn't worth the price.

OK DESIGN I LIKED THEM BUT THEY FELT HEAVY OVERALL. THEY WERE CONSTANTLY SLIDING DOWN THE NOSE BRIDGE. AND MY 2ND PROBLEM WAS THAT THE SHARP DESING ON THE TEMPLE FRAME WAS BEGINNING TO IRRITATE ON BACK OF MY EAR.

The quality an the everything just great best buy also had the quicker delivery so i came straight here

Super nice fit looks sleek and clean also very different

Really amazing glasses, with high tech and amazing quality

Really nice glasses if you’re looking for new cutting edge technology! Music, video camera, and meta live responses and interactions all in one pair of sun glasses!

Good quality and amazing resolution, perfect to recording your sports moments , trips . Beautiful photos at jetski.

Quality and sound excellent. voice activation super easy to use. Wish it could be louder with music, that’s only problem.

Fantastic glasses they truly do everything as advertised

The Oakley Meta HSTN are smart performance glasses designed for outdoor and active users. They combine Oakley’s sporty style with Meta’s AI-smart functionality. If you’re considering smart glasses, here’s what to expect.

The Oakley Meta - HSTN glasses - Clear to Amethyst Transitions Lenses - Black come well packaged in a relatively small box. In the box, you will find: glasses, case, cleaning cloth, Get Started guide and Safety and Warranty document. You do not receive a USB-C cable which you need to charge the glass case. The glasses charge when placed in the case. When I opened the case, the glasses had a 78 percent charge. So you are ready to go. This is my third pair of Meta glasses. I have the Rayban Stories and Meta glasses. And now I have the Oakley Meta HSTN glasses. I will not get into comparing the different Meta glasses versions in this review. The Oakley Meta HSTN case is very sturdy and will protect the glasses well. There is a QR code on the box to get you started with the Meta app. I already had the app on my Google Pixel 10 so I was ready to go in no time. Pairing the glasses to my phone was a breeze. Using the glasses is a breeze. One touch on the right arm button for a picture. You can see the picture I took with the glasses. The Oakley Meta glasses have a 12 MP camera. The details are sharp for pictures and video. Long hold on the right arm button to start or stop a video. Play your music from your paired phone. Move your finger up and down the glasses right arm to turn up and down the volume. I was REALLY impressed with the quality of the audio when listening to music. This was a surprise for me as the other Meta glasses were just OK for audio. The glasses are comfortable to wear as I wore them for about 3 hours straight with no issues. After listening to music for about 3 hours there was still about 38 percent battery left. You can use these all day with no issues depending on what you are using them for. I tried to capture a few pictures to show the lenses in different stages of transition. I could not get the glasses super dark.. The transition feature is super cool and I really liked this feature. It is really nice to not take off and put on your glasses while moving inside or outside. These are not as dark as typical sunglasses. I did not have any issues in the sun. Pros/Cons: Pros: - Great battery life. The documentation stated 8 hours of battery life. My personal experience was I used 62 percent of the battery listening to music for 3 hours. - Great sturdy case - Awesome audio - Great quality pictures and video. See the attachment to the review for the specs of the picture. - Very comfortable. - Transition lenses work very well. - Well built and sturdy glasses Cons: - I am not a huge fan of the looks of the glasses. They look too sharp and angled near the nose area for my liking. Or maybe they just do not look good on me? This is a personal preference thing. You may love it. But please try them on and make your own decision. - The arms feel a little tight on my head. I never had a problem with a fatigue point. They were comfortable for many hours of use. They just felt tight to me. Maybe I have a big head? I also like the hook on the end of the arms to hold your ear. But these are the typical straight armed Oakley arms. In summary, I rate these Oakley Meta HSTN glasses 4 out of 5 stars. I am removing 1 star for the look and fit. This is a personal preference. You may be fine with these features. Overall, these are very impressive Oakley Meta glasses. The transition feature is GREAT!.

Glasses are going to be the future of personal wear tech. There is something so liberating about having Meta AI, my music, texts, phone calls, the ability to take pics and videos all without a single piece of tech in my hands…no phone…just me and these Oakley Meta glasses….just remarkable. It’s so freeing and intuitive to just …Speak.. and boom! Out of the box, I could feel the quality of the build in both the glasses and the case. The case is solid, protective and a smooth tactile feel when in the hand. I cannot believe how small the case is considering it’s a full charger for the glasses that will give me up to 48 hours of charge. The glasses advertise 8 hours, but like any electronic device… the more you play music or record videos, the more it cuts into the time. The glasses themselves are thicker than normal sunglasses just a bit. There is a lot of tech to crunch into the frames. I have worn Oakley Gascans and some other bigger frames before but if your used to wire frames…it’s gonna be a big change. Overall, back to battery life, combining the batter life of the glasses with the case… Plenty of power for a day out and about or maybe two or three days! That was really important to me… a device that is only good for 2-4 hours…that’s just a novelty and not a real world use case. The glasses fit snug in the case and a little tricky to get out of the case. After a few days with the glasses, it is not super easy to get out of the case. I found that grabbing the corners where the arms fold on either side, then pulling up at the same time pops them out. I guess that’s good in a way… I would not want them falling out. The case and the glasses are snug enough and secure enough that I would not worry about putting them in a small bag or day pack and heading out. Setting up is remarkable easy as well. Scan the QR code and your off and running. NOTE: To really get all the amazing tech that the glasses can do you have to sign over a lot of rights to Meta. Like links to your google, phone contacts, music service ect. I just went for it because I am willing to give up some privacy for the convenience. And If Meta really cares so much about what little ole me is up to… to try to sell or build me a better experience…I’m ok with that. I liked the looks of the glasses strait away. I have the black with amethyst transition lenes. As noted above, the frames are a little thicker than any of my traditional bigger rimmed sunglasses but considering the tech that is crammed inside is just down right amazing. They feel solid and well built and incredibly light. The lens inside are crystal clear and what you would expect from Oakly… sharp and crisp! I am glad Meta partnered with Oakley instead of trying to deliver their own product direct. I am sure that will come but the partnership of a trusted brand like Oakley or Ray-ban is a big deal and helps ensure quality control and accountability of performance which I appreciate. When I put the glasses on and they feel great… a tinge tight but I think that is because they are brand new and have not been broken in. They sit securely and comfortably on my face. I can move around and I found that I would forget that I was wearing them. It’s weird but because they are transitions (this is my first pair of transitions) I went from eating my breakfast inside my house while listening to a podcast, to getting in my car to go pick up groceries seamlessly. They just went from clear as ice inside to being sunglasses without me even really noticing. Super cool. The audio is really impressive as well. Now if you want to really rock out with base or ANC, these are not for that but if you want great sounding music magically funneling into your ears… it’s like a real world soundtrack as I walked though my day… The Oakley Meta will blow you away…. I could hear everything around me but I could also hear my music overlaying it all. Magical. So, I played with the music and the transition lenses and I wanted to see how good it would handle the phone calls and voice to texts. A note about the lenes… I was afraid that they might be too purple but they are not, it’s a darker black with a hint of purple. I also wished they were a little darker when fully in the sun… It’s a minor gripe because they work amazing as sunglasses and I would rather have the transitions ability and not be as dark. I like blacked out lenses so people can’t see who or what I am looking at… People can see my eyes when I am wearing these. I called my spouse and I heard them clear as a bell and they me. The glasses have 5 microphones to make sure they pick up the audio. Texts were quick and responsive as well and I could send and receive with ease. The photo’s look good (12mp camera) and the video is also good considering these are sunglasses! The video can do 1080P @ 30 and 60 frames per second or 3K at 30 frames per second. It is smooth. If I was shooting for a work project, I would use another camera. But for personal stuff or to stream on insta…great tool. I shot a selfie in the mirror and it’s weird to not have a camera in the hand and watch the video play back. There is also a white blinking light when you are recording so people know you are recording. I could not find a way to turn that off anywhere. Probably for the best! The last thing though that really sets this device for the next big tech wave is Meta’s AI…. Next level stuff. “Hey Meta set SimpliSafe to home.” “Hey meta take a pic” or “Hey meta shoot a video”, play my pod cast, call my mom, ect ect… and she gets it fast and accurately! What’s the wind speed, where’s the closest gas station… Note… It can’t give direction which I thought was weird.. but will give an address and distance and even traffic conditions. I also love, “Hey meta how do you spell synchronicity” I am a terrible speller and that comes in handy… but it’s more than that… her tone and inflection and she even has a sense of humor which brings to mind the movie “Her.” The fact that I think of it as a “her” and not an it is a testament to their engineers. Interacting with these sunglasses is a very unique immersive experience that feels weirdly human and personal and just a little unnerving in a good way. I can see how the ubiquitous (another word Meta helped me spell lol) cell phones days are numbered in favor of the glasses. Overall Meta (the company) has put itself in an amazing position. Partnering up with Oakley and Ray-Ban to produce the most sophisticative wearable and functional glasses that are also high quality sunglasses that are also a cell phone on my face….Impressive. I have their Meta Quest 3 and love it. When they can combine their glasses with the AR/VR of Quest… our world will change. I would guess that will be sooner than later so go on and buy these glasses and buckle up.

Let me get the one big issue these have out of the way - these glasses come in one one standard size. And anyone who wears glasses knows that there are a million possible combinations of sizes based on head size, nose size, pupil distance, etc. So, if you are considering getting a pair of these, I would strongly recommend you first go to a store where you can try them on and see if they fit you the way you want. Unfortunately for me, they do not fit so well - I do have the smallest adult male head known to mankind so I should have probably known better. I'm sure Oakley tried to make these a size that would work for the widest range of people. I have a coworker who also owns a pair of these and he wears them all day, every day as his new prescription glasses - they fit him great and look great on him. On me, they look like clown glasses and also are too big to be comfortable enough to wear for long periods of time. And that's too bad because the tech in these and the way they work is freakin' awesome! Hopefully, in the future they will come in at least 3 or 4 various sizes to accommodate more people. Now, on to the functionality of these glasses. In general, I love it! And everything works great with the exception that the AI could be better and more helpful. It was super simple to set these up by installing the app. There are a few things you can customize and a brief tutorial so you know how things work, then you're good to go. I'm gonna go over all the features one by one and let know my opinion on them. Speakers: These have speakers built into the arms - there is a speaker grill on the top and bottom of each arm. The sound is unbelievably good! It is way better than what I had expected out of the arms of glasses. I played music. I listened to an audiobook. And of course the Meta AI responses are all through them. Everything is clear and easy to hear and even music sounded great - on par with a good pair of earbuds. I'm super impressed with the quality of the sound which definitely surpassed my expectations. 5 out of 5 for sound! Camera: This is one of those things you never thought you needed until you've had it. Then you'll never want to be without it. How many times have you seen something and wanted to take a picture, but by the time you got your phone out of your pocket, unlocked it, and opened the camera, it was too late? If you're wearing these glasses, that will never happen. You see something, you just look at it and reach up with your right hand and press a button and you got the picture! Or long press the button to start recording video. It's simple and awesome. But of course, none of this would matter if the quality wasn't good. Thankfully, Oakley didn't skimp on the camera so the quality of pics and vids is top notch. Everything looks great. And it's awesome to take video and just look at what you want to film. 5 out of 5 for Pics/Vids META AI: These are, after all, marketed as AI glasses. The integration is pretty awesome, though META as an AI doesn't seem quite as "smart" as some of the competitors out there. And there are limitations as to what META can do. But it's still nice to have and hopefully will get better with time. You can call META up by saying "Hey Meta" OR by long pressing the side of your glasses' right arm which is a touch control area. "Hey Meta" can be activated or deactivated in the app - if it's active, you'll lose some battery length, but still should be able to get 6-8 hours if you're not doing a lot of other stuff with the glasses. The "Hey Meta" wake command worked great in quieter environments, but I found if there's much ambient noise going on (especially voices) then it doesn't pick it up. You can't train it to learn your voice like most phone or speaker assistants which would probably help with this. Once META is listening you can ask anything you'd ask any AI and get answers, but you can also say "what am I looking at" or "identify this plant I'm looking at" or something like that and META will take a picture with the glasses and then try to answer you. Again, META wasn't the smartest with this type of thing. I looked at a Plumeria flower and asked META to identify it and it said it was a Gardenia which it clearly wasn't. I looked at a Hyundai Ioniq5 and asked META to identify it and all it could do was tell me it was an SUV and gave 3 different possible manufacturers. So it's a long way from being able to visually identify things as well as a human can. Also, I asked if I could introduce Meta to people and have Meta remember who they are and identify them (could be useful for remembering names) but Meta said it couldn't do that. I'm assuming it's a security thing, but it's a bummer that some of the things that would be most useful in an AI that can see what you see, isn't possible. Overall, I can see how having an excellent AI built into glasses COULD be an amazing assistant, but at the moment as is and with the current limitations, I don't find Meta in my glasses to be much more useful than Gemini on my phone. Hopefully it'll improve in the future. 3 out of 5 for Meta AI Buttons/Controls: Besides the button on top of the right arm you use to take pictures or start recording video, there are touch controls on the side of that arm. These work great! Tap to play/pause media. Long press to call up Meta AI. Swipe forward or back to increase/decrease volume. You can also customize some of the controls to behave slightly differently if you want. Very simple and intuitive and no problems with accidental touches or anything. 5 out of 5 for physical controls. Battery Life: Quite frankly unbelievable. I mean, these are just glasses. And they have a ton of tech in them. So the fact that with the wake command enabled I can get 6-8 hours or without that enabled 10-12 with no problem is very impressive. And on top of that, the case itself has a battery built in so you can drop them in the case to get a charge - only takes 20ish minutes to get them up to 50% from 5% which is great. 5 out of 5 for battery life. Phone Integration: These glasses are connected to your phone and are using your phone for a lot of their stuff. But they also offer you some cool integration. You can have callers announced - you can have messages read to you - you can tell Meta to play your tunes on Apple Music or Spotify. Of course you can use them to have a phone conversation if you want though I do prefer actually using my phone for that. Of course you can't control everything on your phone since Meta is not your phone assistant, but it still offers some cool features - it's nice to not have to pull my phone out of my pocket to know who's calling me (but since I have an Apple Watch that is a bit redundant). 4 out of 5 for phone integration. Transition Lenses: Oakley's glasses are available with different lenses - I got ones with transition lenses. The transition is excellent! They go from clear to tinted almost instantly and without affecting my view. I can't even tell they've transitioned from looking through them other than not having to squint. They transition back to clear quickly as well. Definitely high quality lenses used in these. 5 out of 5 for Transition Lens quality. While the AI integration still has a lot of room to grow before it becomes the always-with-me digital assistant I've always dreamed of, these are definitely a step in the right direction. It's amazing how much tech is built into this simple pair of glasses and how well all of it works. The glasses are worth it just for the camera and video feature along with always having the ability to listen to music and do some basic phone interactions without having to use your phone. The fact that you can use Meta to get general information about things is a nice bonus for now even if it's not quite as useful as it could be. But all in all, I absolutely love these glasses! I just wish they made them in a size that was suitable to my face so I could wear them as my regular prescription glasses.