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The first iteration launched in late 2021, right before Meta became Facebook, and was known as Ray-Ban Stories. We weren't totally sold on them, though there were some good points. The $300 sunglasses looked like a slightly bulkier Ray-Ban with ...

EssilorLuxottica, which owns Ray-Ban and other eyewear companies, has entered a long-term partnership with Meta to develop more smart glasses.

EssilorLuxottica extends its smart glasses partnership with Meta by 10 years. 'We have the opportunity to turn glasses into the next major technology platform,' Mark Zuckerberg says.

While financial details of the deal remain undisclosed, there were previous reports that suggested Meta might buy a 5 percent stake in EssilorLuxottica. However, the official announcement did not mention that kind of investment.

Meta and eyewear conglomerate EssilorLuxottica plan to work together on smart glasses “into the next decade.” The two announced a long-term agreement today to extend a partnership that started in 2019 and has yielded two generations of Ray-Ban smart glasses.

They will build on the success of their Ray-Ban branded smart glasses. EssilorLuxottica and Meta Platforms have renewed their partnership to collaborate on smart eyewear development for the next decade.

The company behind Ray-Ban glasses is EssilorLuxottica, which has been putting out eyewear products for decades now. Meta first partnered with the company back in 2019 to develop the Ray-Ban Stories,

Meta Platforms and Ray-Ban maker EssilorLuxottica announced Tuesday that they've extended their partnership with plans to "collaborate into the next decade to develop multi-generational smart eyewear products.