Right now, they’re my go-to workout headphones because I only have to grab one accessory instead of two on my way out the door. My poor ears are the crutches of my head – now, instead of trying to insert my wired headphones AROUND My hat, hair and glasses, I can put these on. As we noted in our review of the Meta smart glasses, the tiny speakers that sit over your ears have extremely good audio quality. They get too loud to hear while running outside in a medium-sized city; the mandolin sounds on The Band’s “Atlantic City” sound clear and bright.
It’s also incredibly convenient to be able to take and make calls and listen to texts while I’m running without having to pull out my phone. I understand that many people want to be able to go out for a run, but I will stop whatever I’m doing if I get a call or text from my spouse, my kids, my kids’ school, or my parents . It’s not hard to imagine how much more fun this would be if I could make video calls while walking around. Not very likely for me personally, since my family doesn’t use WhatsApp or Messenger, but it’s not out of the question.
Quick shot
Unlike most smart glasses I’ve tested for WIRED, these are very easy to interact with. The controls are easy to remember and properly calibrated. Pressing the button to take a picture seems like second nature. Tapping the glasses to pause or resume audio or adjust volume always works. My hair or hat never accidentally start or stop a song.
The camera is nice too, and I love being able to snap a quick picture of whatever I’m looking at. When I’m not wearing the Metas, I miss them. I transfer about 80 percent of my brain to my phone camera, and when I don’t get to capture a special moment, I really feel like I’m missing out—like the time I ran to attend my daughter’s funeral. – the annual school musical performance and was the only parent who didn’t record it. But wearing smart glasses with a built-in camera eases that anxiety. It’s also much quicker and less obvious to record with Metas than pulling out a phone and holding it in the air. This ability to discreetly record the world around me has made even my husband nervous. “Shouldn’t you ask them?” he says whenever someone accidentally walks in front of me while I’m surreptitiously taking a photo. (Should I?)
Intelligence quotient
But the real step forward here is the inclusion of the Meta’s voice-activated AI assistant. It’s silly but true: The thing that finally made AI feel useful to me was scaling it down and installing it on my face.
As we’ve seen the rise of AI devices and near-sentient chatbots, I’ve been left unclear as to what exactly to do with them all. I love using ChatGPT to figure out what to do with leftovers, but most of the time, I don’t have questions that a quick Google search on my phone can’t answer. Everything changed when I started wearing Metas. As soon as I threw on a pair of voice glasses, the world was filled with questions and I wanted answers.
How much was that house across the street? The AI couldn’t tell me, but it did tell me that I needed to respawn the path in front of my house. I asked him to identify plants and cars, and he did a good job at both. (It might help that my neighborhood has mostly special vehicles of the Subaru Forester and Dodge Challenger variety.)
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