{"id":747,"date":"2025-03-18T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-18T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jarednewman.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/18\/the-eyewear-giant-behind-the-meta-smart-glasses-has-big-ambitions-for-intelligent-eyewear-fastco\/"},"modified":"2025-03-18T07:00:00","modified_gmt":"2025-03-18T11:00:00","slug":"the-eyewear-giant-behind-the-meta-smart-glasses-has-big-ambitions-for-intelligent-eyewear-fastco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jarednewman.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/18\/the-eyewear-giant-behind-the-meta-smart-glasses-has-big-ambitions-for-intelligent-eyewear-fastco\/","title":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/91270766\/essilorluxottica-most-innovative-companies-2025?partner=rss&amp;utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=rss+fastcompany&amp;utm_content=rss\">The eyewear giant behind the Meta smart glasses has big ambitions for intelligent eyewear (FastCo)<\/a>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EssilorLuxottica has already sold more than 2 million pairs of its Ray-Ban Meta glasses. Now it\u2019s expanding into hearing-aid eyewear. <\/p>\n<p><em>EssilorLuxottica<em> is No. 8 on the list of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/most-innovative-companies\/list\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">World\u2019s 50 Most Innovative Companies of 2025<\/a>. Explore the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/most-innovative-companies\/list\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">full list<\/a>\u00a0of companies that are reshaping industries and culture.<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cEyewear has to first look beautiful,\u201d says <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/francesco-milleri\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Francesco Milleri<\/a>, chairman and CEO of the eyewear and eyecare giant <a href=\"https:\/\/www.essilorluxottica.com\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">EssilorLuxottica<\/a>, owner of Ray-Ban, Oakley, Persol, and more. \u201cIt\u2019s a way you express your personality.\u201d It\u2019s this mantra that finally brought augmented reality mainstream, in the form of the sleek <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ray-ban.com\/usa\/ray-ban-meta-ai-glasses\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Ray-Ban Meta<\/a> glasses, which launched in late 2023 and come in three frames, including the classic <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ray-ban.com\/usa\/electronics\/RW4006ray-ban%20%7C%20meta%20wayfarer-black\/8056262326787\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Wayfarer<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> &#8211; https:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/91270766\/essilorluxottica-most-innovative-companies-2025?partner=rss&amp;utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=rss+fastcompany&amp;utm_content=rss<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EssilorLuxottica has already sold more than 2 million pairs of its Ray-Ban Meta glasses. Now it\u2019s expanding into hearing-aid eyewear. <\/p>\n<p><em>EssilorLuxottica<em> is No. 8 on the list of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/most-innovative-companies\/list\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">World\u2019s 50 Most Innovative Companies of 2025<\/a>. Explore the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/most-innovative-companies\/list\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">full list<\/a>\u00a0of companies that are reshaping industries and culture.<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cEyewear has to first look beautiful,\u201d says <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/francesco-milleri\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Francesco Milleri<\/a>, chairman and CEO of the eyewear and eyecare giant <a href=\"https:\/\/www.essilorluxottica.com\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">EssilorLuxottica<\/a>, owner of Ray-Ban, Oakley, Persol, and more. \u201cIt\u2019s a way you express your personality.\u201d It\u2019s this mantra that finally brought augmented reality mainstream, in the form of the sleek <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ray-ban.com\/usa\/ray-ban-meta-ai-glasses\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Ray-Ban Meta<\/a> glasses, which launched in late 2023 and come in three frames, including the classic <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ray-ban.com\/usa\/electronics\/RW4006ray-ban%20%7C%20meta%20wayfarer-black\/8056262326787\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Wayfarer<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","iawp_total_views":47,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-feed","tag-published","h-entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jarednewman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jarednewman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jarednewman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jarednewman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jarednewman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jarednewman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jarednewman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jarednewman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jarednewman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}