A year after I bought my first pair of Ray-Ban Meta glasses, the transparent limited edition frames mark how far they've come

Meta announced it is opening up Meta Lab, a pop-up experiential retail space for its Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses starting November 8th in Los Angeles. The temporary store will be around through the end of the year and allow customers to try out the glasses and customize their glasses cases as they shop.

A business partnership between Meta and eyewear company EssilorLuxottica on Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses has helped the latter’s market capitalisation climb to more 100 billion euros (A$165 billion). “These new technologies will one day replace smartphones,

Ray-Ban Meta smartglasses are already pretty fashionable, as they look nearly identical to a few of EssilorLuxottica’s best-selling sunglasses, albeit with the inclusion of neatly integrated cameras,

Baidu (NASDAQ:BIDU) is planning to showcase its new smart glasses with a built-in AI assistant at its annual Baidu World event in Shanghai next week, a source told Bloomberg, as it looks to compete with Meta's (NASDAQ:META) Ray-Bans.

Meta is opening an experiential pop-up store for its Meta Ray-Ban Smart Glasses in Los Angeles today. Called Meta Lab, the temporary store will be around until the end of the year, and it will allow customers to try out the smart glasses and customize them to their requirements.

Back in my day, smart glasses turned you into a social pariah. In 2013, Google's ill-fated smart glasses, Google Glass, were released unto the world, inadvertently entering the term "Glasshole" into our collective lexicon.

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