The close joy of cycling with Meta-Wash Ray-Ban
For years, bicycle vehicles over the weekend have been sacred escapes for me. Each pedal blow helps to melt the stressors that have accumulated throughout the week, and I have collected a few gadgets that make these rides better. However, I learned the hard way that wearing too many facilities takes away from the ride itself, forcing you to drive a net of ping and battery levels instead of just driving the damn motor.
Enter the Meta Ray-Ban: The smart glasses that made my vehicles on the weekend simpler and a little more fun.
Instead of wearing sunglasses, a pair of headphones and falling apart with my phone to take pictures throughout the trip, now I have a device that helps with everything.
The Ray-Ban Meta smart goggles were a surprising hit with more people than just self-saying Meta He has sold millions of these devicesand CEO Mark Zuckerberg recently said Sales have tripled in the last yearS
Several Reddit threads and YouTube videos Suggest that many people wear Ray-Ban Meta-Echils while cycling. Meta has also been caught – according to the messages is built Next generation AI smart glasses with Oakley specially designed for athletesS
I never expected to use my Ray-Ban metasi on the bike. But a few months ago I decided to try them.
Now I wear these motorcycle glasses more than anywhere else. Met have enough things that are enough things with these smart glasses to convince me that there is thing Here. It is almost a joy to use and with a few upgrades it can get there.
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The main point for the sale of meta-BAS Meta is that they are just a solid pair of sunglasses Ray-Ban are the style of Wayfarer with transitional lenses and a clear plastic body.
I found these to work well for bicycle walks, protecting your eyes from the sun, dirt and pollen. They sit comfortably under a bicycle helmet – but maybe not perfect. (More about this later.)
The characteristic of the Meta intelligent goggles is the camera that sits above your right and left eyes. My glasses allow me to take photos and videos of things I see on my vehicles just by pushing a button in the upper right corner of the frames instead of falling apart with my phone – something that feels slightly clumsy and dangerous on the bike.
As I walked through the Golden Gate Park in San Francisco last weekend, I used Ray-Ban’s metals to click pictures of the beautiful blue heron, shrubs covered with the Pacific, and the trees covered with the tree that sits at the entrance to the park.
Is the camera amazing? No. But it’s pretty good, and in the end, I catch moments that I just never had if I didn’t wear glasses. For this reason, I do not see the camera as a replacement for the camera of my phone, and soon to capture more photos and videos at all.
The feature I use most: open-ear speakers in the hands of glasses that allow me to listen to podcasts and music without blocking the noise of people, motorcyclists and cars around me. Meta was away from the first company to put speakers in glasses – Bose has a solid couple of yearsS But the Meta borrowing of open ears speakers is surprisingly good. I was impressed with the quality of audio and how little I miss the traditional headsets of these rides.
I found that I was talking to the Meta AI assistant a little in my rides over the weekend. I recently asked him questions about the nature I saw all over the park – like “Hey, Meta, look at me what a tree it is?” – as well as the origin of the historic buildings I saw.
I usually use bicycle walks as a way to exclude from the world, so I seemed to talk to AI chatbot during the vehicles. However, I found that these short requests bet on my curiosity about the world around me without sucking me in a rabbit hole in content and notifications, which usually happens when I use my phone.
Again, the biggest thing about these features is that they all come to one device.
It means less charging, less clutter in my cycling box and less devices to drive during my trip.
Holes
While Ray-Ban’s metals look great for walking, they were obviously not designed with cycling.
Often, Ray-Ban metals fall on my nose during uneven driving. When I bend over the bike and look up to see what’s ahead, the thick frames block my view. (Most cyclist sunglasses have thin nasal frames and pads to solve these problems.)
There are some restrictions on how the Ray-Ban metals work with other applications, which is a problem. While I like to take photos and pend music with glasses, for everything else, my phone has to come out of my pocket.
For example, Ray-Ban Meta has an integration of Spotify, but it was difficult for me to get AI Assistant to play specific playlists. Sometimes the glasses played nothing when I asked for a playlist or completely played the wrong in performance.
I will be glad to see these integrations to improve-to expand to include more cycling-specific integrations with applications such as Strava or Garmin.
Ray-Ban Meta also does not work super well with the rest of my iPhone, which is probably due to Apple’s restrictive policies.
I would be glad to be able to launch the texts or easily navigate the Apple Maps with my meta-echola Ray-Ban, but features like this may not be available until Apple releases its own smart glasses.
This leaves an AI assistant to Meta. The AI ​​feature is often advertised as the main point of selling these glasses, but I often find it missing.
The Meta voice is not as impressive as other Voice AI products by Openai, bewilderment and Google. His AI voices feel more Robotic and I find his answers less reliable.
I tested the recently launched Ray-Ban Meta video AI Video AI that were First revealed at last year’s Meta Connect ConferenceS Live Video and Ray-Ban Meta Audio Functions in the AI ​​model in the cloud, striving to create a more simple way to interact with your AI assistant and let it “see” what you see. In fact, it was a hallucinated hot mess.
I asked the Meta Ray-Ban to identify some of the interesting cars I bicycled around him near my apartment. The glasses described a modern Ford Bronco as the Volkswagen Beetle harvest, though they both look nothing. Later, the glasses confidently told me that BMW from the 80s is Honda Civic. Closer, but still many different cars.
During the live session, AI asked II to help identify some plants and trees. AI told me that eucalyptus tree is an oak tree. When I said, “No, I think it’s an eucalyptus tree,” AI replied, “Oh, yes, you’re right.” Such experiences make me doubt why I am talking to AI at all.
Google Deepmind and Openai also work on multimodal AI sessions such as the one Meta offers with its smart glasses. But for now, the experiences seem far from complete.
I really want to see an enhanced version of AI Smart Glasses that I can take motorcycles. Ray-Ban Meta Glass is one of the most convincing AI devices I’ve seen so far and I saw how to wear them would be joy after a few keys upgrades.
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