Meta’s good glasses now have a devoted charging stand

Meta launched a stand accent that allows you to show the corporate’s good glasses in your desk or nightstand whereas they’re being recharged. The new Charging Stand is listed at $59 on Meta’s web site — $30 lower than the charging case for Meta’s non-Ray-Ban glasses — and resembles a steel tube with a groove you’ll be able to slot the glasses into whereas charging.

The Meta Charging Stand isn’t appropriate with Meta Ray-Ban Display or Oakley Meta Vanguard glasses fashions, however a number of fashions are supported — together with the Wayfarer, Skylar, and Headliner Ray-Ban fashions, and Meta’s new, extra inexpensive good glasses lineup. Delivery estimates for orders are exhibiting as Thursday, June twenty fifth once I add the charging stand to my basket.

The steel shell is comprised of chrome steel, and it contains a silicone rubber footpad on the underside to assist forestall it from sliding round on desktop surfaces. It’s simply shy of two inches tall, and weighs 108 grams (roughly the identical as a bar of cleaning soap), so it could be fairly simple to by accident nudge in any other case. There’s additionally an LED gentle on the high of the stand that turns orange whereas your glasses are charging, after which inexperienced when absolutely charged.

You can absolutely cost your Meta glasses in simply over an hour, or rapidly cost to 50 p.c in about 20 minutes, in line with Meta. Unlike the transportable charging case, this new stand possibility requires a relentless USB-C connection to cost, so it’s designed to dwell in a selected space of your private home relatively than one thing for on-the-go energy.