Customer Ratings & Reviews

Love the style, battery life, and camera quality. Much better than the raybans. Wish they had transition lenses but will wait for the next drop!

Great fit and look! Like it better than the Raybans.

Heavy, was made for looks and not function. Oakley should stick to giving active people what they need for sport activities. These are made for show…

Excellent glasses, I love them they were just like explained. I just wish I had waited to get a different color.

The oakley glasees have been amazing i love the 24k gold poloarized love these glasses so far

Awesome glasses. AI Features are great. It takes some practice to get it.

This is awesome and is perfect for me having such a small face size.

The battery and video improvement over the Ray Bans is phenomenal

If you want to look like you’re wearing safety goggles buy these. Instant dork mode.

Not worth the price we’ll wait till they come down

These are nice shades. The camera feature is nice too…

Open the package update the glasses the glasses never turned back on very disappointed I also have meda Ray-Ban and I never experience anything like that

I was hoping that Oakley would make smart glasses that actually looked like regular sunglasses. These are definitely not them. They are bulky and weird looking.

Big clunky. If you’re not in the medical universal or don’t have social media, they kind of suck. They OK remember version I would assume it’s just as good. Upload take forever so that that’s also an issue. I returned them.

very loose and the transition lens are slow to transition

Stop turning on after three weeks………………………………………..

Meta's smart glasses haven't always been perfect, but at this point I think it's fairly uncontroversial to say that they've become the benchmark for what smart eyewear is supposed to be. Oakley's first attempt to adapt the tech to their frames isn't getting nearly as much press as some of their other offerings from this generation, but anyone considering sticking a smart device on their face would be foolish to overlook them. I've been lucky enough to get to try a pretty wide variety of smart glasses over the years, including all of Meta's previous offerings, so I went into it with a pretty good knowledge of what kind of features to expect. The open ear audio design basically offers a compromise between the higher audio quality of traditional earbuds and the more discrete bone conduction headphones. You get reasonably good sound (albeit with somewhat poor bass response) and no one except someone sitting right next to you is likely to hear any of it. The thin, angular arms of the glasses here do a pretty good job of directing audio into your ear and the mic array has no issues picking up clear audio for calls or spoken commands. It does struggle a fair bit on the lower end - more so than most audio glasses - but I still found it more than adequate for listening to audio books or music when going out on a walk. The cameras are basically the same as we got with the last generation. They're perfectly fine for capturing action shots or landscapes, but with the fixed focus and compact optics they do struggle with a lot of shots. This is definitely more of a supplement to your phone's camera than a replacement - but I'd still say it's a very good supplement and has become my preferred method for taking photos of wildlife on hikes. This brings us to the AI features. I'll be honest here: while I find the features cool, particularly some of the assistive features meant for people with vision impairments, I'm not sure they're to a point where I'd recommend buying the glasses for them. They were reliable enough in my testing, to be clear, but they drain the battery fast and this is a problem. Putting aside all the other issues with some of these AI features, the fact is that the glasses just barely have enough battery for a full days' use as earbuds and an occasional camera. If you also want to make full use of the AI features as well you'll be going from judging the useful life in hours to minutes, which makes me very hesitant to rely on them. It also doesn't help that some of the features feel like they're still in beta. To give one example, the live translation function. When it works, it's very impressive. But there's a pretty limited range of environments where it can work. You need to have the appropriate language packs already downloaded to the glasses, there are only a few languages supported, and you still need to rely on your phone. A phone that, at least in my case, already has a much better translation function that works for pretty much any language I throw at it. As cool as it seems in theory, in practice I can't see myself ever using it. Finally, how are they as glasses? Turns out they are quite good. I don't know if I'd want to wear them every day, as the chunky angular design is not exactly subtle about what's hidden inside, but they're great for weekend outings or camping trips. The lack of ear hooks do mean they can slide off though, so you may want to consider adding a strap just to make sure you don't find yourself bending over and dropping the things into a canyon somewhere. The lenses also proved to be a very pleasant surprise. I've been using transition lenses in my daily driver pair of glasses for about a year now and while I like them I have noticed that they often struggle with clarity in low light environments. These do not. When they are not needed, they are perfectly clear and I kind of want these in my normal glasses now. Time will tell if it lasts, but for now I'm quite happy. And should I ever want to, it is possible to swap the included lenses out for prescription versions at a later date.

Diving into the wearable AI landscape and the few days I've been playing around with these glasses and they are a bit intimidating for this old man. But, the adaptation of AI technology into a pair of smart glasses is intriguing as there seems to be endless potential so I'm diving into the ins and outs. Starting off, I'm a huge fan of Oakley! I've been getting sunglasses from them for decades and now that I need to wear prescribed eyewear I still continue to get them (both daily wear glasses and sunglasses) from Oakley. Not to mention the several backpacks I also own. For me, brand recognition goes a long way. I've seen other brands adopt the wearable AI platform and I've anxiously awaited for my pair of HSTN's to arrive. Out of the box I was pleased to see a sturdy charging case for the HSTN's. After placing them on an initial charge I ran through the setup with my smartphone and jumped into the tutorial. The learning process was engaging and I found myself saying "Hey Meta!" for basic actions and AI searches. I like that you can look at something and ask it to tell you what you are looking at in more detail. Playing with Vibes in the app has some interesting entertaining results. Seeing what others have done with Vibes gives you inspiration and ideas to create your own. Very cool! I can see these as a content creator's dream with the ability to use the onboard camera for stills and videos (although there is a max length duration of 5 minutes with shorter durations selectable in settings), especially point of view action shots like snowboarding, skiing, hiking, rock climbing, etc. Combine this action shots with Vibes and you will have some amazingly entertaining shorts! I'm going to swap the lenses out for prescription transitions so I can use this as an alternate daily wear.