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We also applied machine learning-enhanced tone rendering to enhance photos and videos, so they feel as authentic as the moment itself. I expected the speakers on both sides of the frame to be soft and hollow, but they were surprisingly loud and full. I can see the audio playback over Bluetooth coming in handy for taking phone calls or maybe listening to podcasts, but I’d prefer to use proper headphones for listening to music. The audio doesn’t sound specifically targeted at the wearer’s ears, making it easy to overhear when you’re standing next to someone wearing the glasses.

You can favorite clips and do minor touch-ups before sending footage to any app of your choice. During initial setup, it walks you through the privacy policy that asks to let Facebook collect data about how you use the glasses. A Facebook account is required to use them, but the company isn’t analyzing what you record and save in the View app to personalize ads to you. The cameras in the glasses are nowhere as high quality as the cameras on modern smartphones. Instead, Ray-Ban Stories are meant to be used in moments when your hands are occupied, or you want to capture something fleeting.

The RX 5362 features square frames and the iconic Ray-Ban® logo. Wayfarers, Clubmasters, New Wayfarers, and other styles are all available as prescription sunglasses. To take advantage of our price match service, first place your frames in the shopping cart. In the comments box, add the web address of the page with the currently advertised lower price. We will then contact you if the order qualifies for price matching. Ray Ban sunglasses offer an exciting collection of polarized lenses to protect against UV rays.

According to Facebook, the app is designed to make it easy to share content on Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger, Twitter, TikTok, and Snapchat. Additionally, the glasses pair with the new Facebook View app. You can import photos and videos to the app, edit them and share them to Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, TikTok and more.

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These sunglasses would later be rebranded as the Ray-Ban Aviator and sold to the general public. Where Snap’s design team has leaned into the Burning Man aesthetic for its Spectacles, Facebook and Ray-Ban went normcore. If you ignore the fact that they have cameras clubmaster and wireless connectivity, Ray-Ban Stories are just a pair of Wayfarers. We weighed one of the pairs, which measured 49.3 grams—just shy of the stated 49.6 grams cited in the specs, and around 5 grams more than the original Wayfarers they’re modeled after.

Ray Ban has been making high-quality eyeglasses, sunglasses, and frames since 1936. However, their origin story starts a few years prior to the release of their first official pair of sunglasses. The Ray Ban Clubmaster sunglasses model is patterned after the famous Shuron Ronsir Zyl frame which is one of the most famous and time-honored designer frames in American culture.