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The best smart glasses worth buying

Our pick is the Ray-Ban Meta glasses. Below: why, what actually matters when buying one, what to get for less, the step up, and whether today's price is a good one.

The smart glasses

Ray-Ban Meta glasses

Sunglasses with a camera, open-ear speakers and a voice assistant that look like ordinary Ray-Bans. Filming hands-free, on a bike or with a kid on your shoulders, is the thing a phone cannot do.

Buy it for
Riders, fishermen, dads who miss the moment filming it.
Skip it if
A camera on your face bothers you, or the people around you.

What actually matters when buying a smart glasses

  1. A frame and lens that suit you. They are glasses first; prescription lenses are possible.
  2. Camera quality and how easily you can share what it captured.
  3. Battery life, and the charging case that tops them up.