Unboxing Meta Ray-Ban Display Glasses [7:01]

YouTube ^ | September 19, 2025 | Unbox Therapy

[SunkenCiv]

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Unboxing Meta Ray-Ban Display Glasses | 7:01 
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[MikelTackNailer]

Drew Carey will be an early adopter of these, he picked up his first pair in the USMC.

Drew got radial keratotomy done and was thrilled to be rid of the glasses at last. Then found that no one believed he was Drew Carey, after the world had become so familiar with his bespectacled image and he looked so different without them.

Rather than fight that uphill battle he "went with the one who brought him to the dance" and wears clear-lensed glasses to this day.

That's kind of sad but I'm sure his spirits are lifted each time he checks his bank account.

[Beowulf9]

Me too.

[SunkenCiv]

😆

[SunkenCiv]

I’ve got the audiobook (cassettes) of his “Dirty Jokes and Beer”, and he talks about how the glasses broke and he had to find someone to reproduce the frames, I think after the pilot and before the series started shooting.

[SunkenCiv]

They come up for sale (used) on eBay. I think my late father had a pair of those long ago. I’ve been very happy with yellow lens sunglasses, they work great, which surprised me.

[MikelTackNailer]

Then you saw the chapter devoted to he and his friends variation on the Chuck Norris joke:

"My **** is so big..." it won't return Spielberg's calls. (etc.)

Those chuckleheads.

Back on topic- this video goes over these glasses features, limitations and planned developments:

Are the $800 Ray-Ban Meta Glasses Worth It? I Wore Them for a Week

I couldn't deal with their single-eye display setup as that's a literal headache for me, though that does work around my safety concern posted earlier. They come with a "neurotransmitting" wristband that sends them instructions via your muscle twitches (?). Reviewer guy says it's great for photography if you don't mind cell-phone format vertical pictures, it's really great for phone calls and can do on-the-fly foreign language translation (just a few European ones right now but eventually most of them). Two to four hours battery life depending on usage.

Cool stuff but definitely emerging technology. I'm holding out for a NeuroLink myself. C'mon Elon - quit trying to fix England and get on it!

[FreedomPoster]

I didn’t like the Ambermatics for driving glasses because they didn’t get dark enough, because they weren’t in the sun. Preferred just the regular green lenses. Had a ton of Ray-Bans back in the day (late 70s - early 80s), they were relatively cheap at the PX, I had some money as an engineering co-op student with PX privileges as a dependent.

[SunkenCiv]

Yeah, I think my dad had a darker pair for driving, and given that we wuz por, probably all those he had were knockoffs.

[FreedomPoster]

This brought up an old memory.

Dad always wore these (was a military aviator). Blade earpieces, of course, so you could put them on while wearing your flight helmet.

https://www.randolphusa.com/products/aviator-military-special-edition-matte-chrome

I had a couple of these back in the day, too. Less expensive than Ray-Bans, but both were reasonable at the PX.