Meta Partners With Oakley for Its Next Pair of Smart Glasses

The parent company of Instagram and Facebook has previously collaborated with Ray-Ban to bring its smart glasses vision to fruition.

Meta's next pair of smart glasses might just be the perfect summer shades. The company has confirmed its partnership with Oakley to bring a new pair of smart glasses to the market with a new Oakley Meta Instagram account.

Recent rumors have indicated that Meta's (expensive) next model will target a sportier audience. These smart sunglasses are supposedly designed for athletes first and foremost, although they'll have a bevy of preinstalled apps for you to toy around with.

The Oakley Meta glasses will have camera, gallery and map functionality, and they'll be able to view any push notifications sent to your mobile device.

Meta's official Oakley Instagram account (@oakleymeta) has a blue checkmark, and it's followed by the official accounts for Meta and Oakley; Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg; Caloa Mato, head of global marketing at Oakley; and Rocco Basilico, the chief wearables officer at Luxottica (the parent company of Oakley).

This isn't the first time that EssilorLuxottica has partnered with Meta on eyewear. The company also owns the Ray-Ban brand, which Meta has already partnered with to create a line of smart glasses.

CNET's smart glasses expert, Scott Stein, believes that some of the key features from the Meta Ray-Bans will be a perfect fit for this new pair of glasses.

"The best part of Meta Ray-Bans is their great audio quality for phone calls and their off-ear sound design," he said. "I could see these being really helpful for sports glasses, but an updated camera placement could make for better POV videos, too."

He pointed out that there's room for improvement when it comes to the current model's durability, and how that could be the right direction for innovation in a sportier pair of smart glasses.

"Hopefully they can make more headway on battery life, which has been disappointing on current Ray-Bans," Stein said. "Or at least improve the water resistance."

If the Instagram account's bio is any indication, the official Oakley Meta smart glasses announcement will be on Friday.