Customer Ratings & Reviews

I'm glad I waited a bit to get a pair of smart glasses, as these seem to be a great combination of features. When I first saw these in white, I thought they were a bit out there in the style department, wondering if I could pull them off. Then the black came out and decided to give them a shot. The wayfairer design is more classic and tame but also super common. After having them for a bit, I really like that these are different. Setting the Oakley HSTN glasses up was a breeze. A bit lengthy but in a good way. Make sure you go through the app thoroughly as there are soo many options. I'm finding the battery life to be quite good. With light use, I can go 11 hours with 15% battery left. That's with "hey meta" turned on, a couple of hours listening to music at a comfortable level, asking meta a few questions, and taking several photos. Battery life will drop depending on how you use them of course. And especially when recording videos. Just have the case handy to charge them back up. A little over an hour and you're back up and running. The charging case is fine but could use some improvement. It protects the glasses when traveling or not in use but it's boring and chunky. For funky glasses the case could use some style. I find it a bit difficult to remove the glasses, they always feel stuck and there's no perfect way to grab them. Hopefully it will loosen up some. The main annoyance is there isn't anyway to know when the glasses are done charging. You just have to check. They could have the green light flash occasionally or at least send a notification to your phone. The Comfort level of these glasses right out of the box, is not great if you have a big head like I do. They are quite tight and the arms narrow down quite sharply and they just press into your head behind your ears. I did find a trick to put something in between them overnight to stretch them out a bit, gently, that has worked some and made me able to wear them all day. The transition lenses need some work. I thought this was going to be the best part, clear glasses when you're indoors and automatic sunglasses when you go outside. They are not dark at all . When you go outside you can still see your eyes after they have darkened. I would say they probably only block 25% of the sunlight. I need darker sunglasses, so these help but could be darker. Some upgrade they could do, would maybe be to have a magnetic attachment for the front that comes in different darkness levels. Or have a button on the left side so you can choose what Darkness level you want. (I have a different pair of sunglasses that have 4 levels to choose from) I do love the convenience that these glasses offer. The option to always have an assistant ready, or to be able to snap a picture, or record a video is so easy , is just wonderful. It's also a safety feature, for when you're driving in your car you have easy access to record moments if something were to happen. These Oakley HSTN glasses definitely won't replace your phone or a dedicated camera, but it's definitely a great addition.

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.

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.

An interesting adaptation to bring MetaAI a little closer to usage. Let's start with the basics... this was realatively easy to setup. maybe took 15 minutes or so to get it all out of the packaging, connected, charged, and ready to use. The app, was slightly out of date, I am sure they have fixed it by now... some of the steps were not the same as the software, but that is easily fixable with an update. I LOVED the fact that I could change the voice to Peacemaker (John Cena)...that was really cool. Taking still shots, and video.. super easy.. and what I will probably use this the most for. Both with Voice commands, and the physical button. Picture and Video quality was pretty adequate, given this isn't a multi-sense device. The audio, is a little low in volume, as it sits outside your ears. When I was playing audio, people near me where not able to hear it.. but I could hear it. But in a louder setting, not very easy to hear (no good noise canceling). The transition glasses, did work. Took a few seconds, as you expect, but adequate as a pair of sunglasses. I did find though after long usage, my eyes would strain a bit. I tried to use them for several hours, to see how long I could tolerate... after about an hour, I had to take a break. Now, the AI/Meta features... This obviously is going to take more time. Just using basic "what am I looking at"... sometimes it gave really amazing breakdowns, other times... I was wondering if I was looking at something that my own eyes couldn't identify. I am looking forward to try this on my next trip to Mexico, to help me read some signs and other things. Overal.. while I am giving it a 4, it is still going into the novelty category. Going to continue to use them as sunglasses, and try to do more things... but with winter coming, won't be outside much exploring, so in the spring. Will be interesting to see what they can do on a golf course

I was really excited for these glasses but I think they just give a glimpse of what the future will hold, rather than being groundbreaking technology that has already arrived. The first thing I noticed with these glasses is that they are a pain to get out of the case. The design is such that you really have to dig your fingers around in a weird angle to get them out without grabbing the lenses and putting fingerprints all over them. So either you have to really work to get them out, or clean them with a cloth after each time. Just a pain either way. The sound is pretty decent when playing music. I can hear them well enough and if I have someone else wear them I can’t really hear the volume too easily so it doesn’t feel too intrusive. They do sit clear of the ear which is helpful if it’s a situation where you want to listen to something while also being able to hear what’s going on around you. Overall ok, but I have a lot of earbuds that work better overall for a lot lower price. Mic works fine and calls go through without a problem, but nothing fancy on that end. The cameras are a bit gimmicky. The image quality isn’t super great so I wouldn’t use it for any sort of phone camera replacement. The battery / storage is also small enough that it can’t replace a gopro even if it was higher quality. The only thing that makes having a camera and trying to do glasses instead of earbuds worth it is if it can connect to your phone app to do something unique. The app is pretty lame really in most ways. The only thing that really is cool at all about it is the real time translation. Now the language options are a bit limited, but should be good enough for most people. I went with Spanish and watch some Spanish music videos and it seemed to do a pretty good job of translating. Being able to still hear everything clearly was a bit distracting, but the ability to do real time translation was impressive. The app says its better if the camera can see the person speaking, and maybe that’s true in some cases, but for me it didn’t seem to make a difference if it could see the face of the person on screen or I looked away. Honestly, the frustrating part of the app is that I am 90% sure they could just activate it for any set of earbuds you own to be the mic and it would work just as well. I will give them the benefit of the doubt though and say that as they expand languages there may be some languages I didn’t try or that will be added that the ability for the camera to add additional information for the translation may actually improve it significantly. I think this does demonstrate the abilities that could be opened up in the future, but as of right now, I think the glasses are more of a gimmick than anything. If they actually let the lenses display information, that would be a real game changer, they just aren’t there yet.

Comfortable glasses with a great design. Ended up returning, only because they weren’t transition lenses.

I’ve had the ray ban meta’s already kinda misplaced them so I’m going for another try this product is very helpful such as our phones are also I can get my vision prescription with these as well so it’s like a two in one for me

A little tight on head , but got used to it Easy to use and user friendly interface

These are amazing I actually love them Way better then the other smart meta glasses I have experienced

I really love my Meta glasses and their design. They stand out compared to other glasses out there.