Meta's upcoming $1,000 smart glasses sound like the Ray-Bans successor I've been waiting for

Unlike the Meta Ray-Bans, the Xreal One Pro features display projections for digital overlays. Kerry Wan/ZDNET The Meta Ray-Ban smart glasses have been one of the more successful gadgets in recent years for breaking into a competitive wearable market and carving out their place. If CES in January was any indication of what we'll see in the rest of 2025, expect more people walking, working, and lounging around with smart glasses on. Also: CES 2025: The 8 most advanced smart glasses we tried - and were impressed by Clearly, Meta isn't settling with just branded glasses that can answer questions and take photos; it has a more ambitious goal of producing a pair of eyewear that can also display graphics, track hand gestures, and do more, as suggested by a recent Bloomberg report. The product in development is codenamed Hypernova, and Bloomberg's Mark Gurman ballparks that it'll cost anywhere from $1,000 to $1,400, almost four times the listing price of its Ray-Ban smart glasses. Gurman ... Read full article.