Meta taps former The RealReal CEO to enhance smart glasses retail experience

Photo: John Koryl

Meta hired John Koryl, former chief executive officer of luxury goods marketplace The RealReal, as its new vice president of retail. This move underscores Meta's plan to enhance the retail experience for its growing line of artificial intelligence-enabled hardware, including Quest headsets, Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses, and other upcoming wearables.

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Meta and EssilorLuxottica have announced that two million pairs of Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses have been sold since their October 2023 launch. This figure, revealed by EssilorLuxottica CEO Francesco Milleri, excludes sales of the original Ray-Ban Stories released in 2021.

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The future of seeing? Even Realities launches G1 & G1B at CES 2025

Even Realities showcased its G1 smart glasses and the new G1B model at CES 2025 in Las Vegas. Both versions feature a sleek design, with the G1B offering a more rectangular frame than the G1's rounder aesthetic. Powered by a 160mAh battery, the glasses provide up to 1.5 days of use (and extra juice with its 2,000mAh charging case) and boast waveguide displays with a 25-degree field of view and 640x200 resolution for displaying essential information like navigation, real-time translations, and smartphone notifications.

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