{"id":1168031,"date":"2023-08-03T18:22:14","date_gmt":"2023-08-03T22:22:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1168031"},"modified":"2023-08-03T18:22:14","modified_gmt":"2023-08-03T22:22:14","slug":"even-people-who-bought-metas-ray-ban-smart-glasses-dont-want-to-use-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1168031","title":{"rendered":"Even people who bought Meta\u2019s Ray-Ban smart glasses don\u2019t want to use them"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Even the people who spent money on Meta’s Ray-Ban “Stories” smart glasses don’t want to use them. That’s according to a report this week from the Wall Street Journal (WSJ<\/a>), citing internal data and claiming to detail the letdowns that led to hundreds of thousands of Stories gathering dust.<\/p>\n

Meta (then called Facebook) released Ray-Ban Stories<\/a> in 2021. The company’s first mass-market smart glasses include a Snapdragon chip, two 5 MP front-facing cameras for snapping pictures or video, and speakers for listening to audio. Ray-Ban branding comes courtesy of the glasses’ partnership with Ray-Ban parent company EssilorLuxottica (which also makes Oakleys and claims numerous luxury brands, including Burberry, Prada, Swarovski, and Tiffany & Co.).<\/p>\n

But according to a February corporate document WSJ says it saw, under 10 percent of Ray-Ban Stories ever purchased are in active use. The publication reported that Meta sold 300,000 Stories, but there are just 27,000 monthly active users of the product.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\nSource: Ars Technica – Even people who bought Meta\u2019s Ray-Ban smart glasses don\u2019t want to use them<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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