Meta’s Smart Glasses Now Have A Dedicated Charging Stand

Meta launched a guidelines accessory that lets you show nan company’s smart glasses connected your table aliases nightstand while they’re being recharged. The new Charging Stand is listed astatine $59 connected Meta’s website — $30 little than nan charging case for Meta’s non-Ray-Ban glasses — and resembles a metallic conduit pinch a groove you tin slot nan glasses into while charging.

The Meta Charging Stand isn’t compatible pinch Meta Ray-Ban Display aliases Oakley Meta Vanguard glasses models, but respective models are supported — including nan Wayfarer, Skylar, and Headliner Ray-Ban models, and Meta’s new, much affordable smart glasses lineup. Delivery estimates for orders are showing arsenic Thursday, June 25th erstwhile I adhd nan charging guidelines to my basket.

The metallic ammunition is made from stainless steel, and it features a silicone rubber footpad connected nan bottommost to thief forestall it from sliding astir connected desktop surfaces. It’s conscionable awkward of 2 inches tall, and weighs 108 grams (roughly nan aforesaid arsenic a barroom of soap), truthful it would beryllium beautiful easy to accidentally nudge otherwise. There’s besides an LED ray astatine nan apical of nan guidelines that turns orangish while your glasses are charging, and past greenish erstwhile afloat charged.

You tin afloat complaint your Meta glasses successful conscionable complete an hour, aliases quickly complaint to 50 percent successful astir 20 minutes, according to Meta. Unlike nan portable charging case, this caller guidelines action requires a changeless USB-C relationship to charge, truthful it’s designed to unrecorded successful a circumstantial area of your location alternatively than thing for on-the-go power.