For years, weekend bike trips have been sacred to me. Stroko pedal stroke helps melt the stressors that accumulate all week, and I have collected some tools that make these trips better. However, I have learned the difficult way that the behavior of many dresses removes a lot from the journey yourself, forcing you to manage a network of pingas and battery levels instead of just riding on the cursed bike.
Enter Ray-Ban Meta: Smart glasses that made my trips of the simplest and a little more fun weekend.
Instead of wearing sunglasses, a pair of headphones and bending my phone to take pictures while traveling, I now have a device that helps with everything.
Smart Ray-Ban Meta Smart glasses have been a surprise hit with more people than only I-Meta says it has sold millions of these devices, and CEO Mark Zuckerberg recently said sales have tripled last year.
Some Reddit and YouTube video themes suggest that many people are wearing meta glasses with a beam when bike. Meta is also caught – it is reported to be building another generation of the smart glasses of he with Oakley, specially built for athletes.
I never expected to use my Ray-Ban metas on the bike. But a few months ago, I decided to try them.
Now, I wear these glasses on bike travel more than anywhere else. Meta only got enough things with these smart glasses to convince me that it is SOMETHING Here Almosta almost a joy to use, and with some updates, can get there.
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A main point of sale of Ray-Ban Meta is that they are just a strong pair of ray-ba-monie sunglasses are Wayfarer style with transition lenses and a clear plastic body.
I found these work well for bicycle trips, protecting eyes from the sun, dirt and pollen. They sit quiet under a bike helmet – but probably not perfectly. (More for this later.)
Meta’s Meta Smart glasses is the camera sitting on your right and left eyes. Glasses allow me to capture pictures and videos of things I see on my trips just by pressing a button in the upper right corner of the frames, rather than fumbles with my phone – something that feels a little heavy and dangerous on the bike.
As I boarded the Golden Gate Park in San Francisco last weekend, I used Gotat Meta Ray-Ban to capture the beautiful Blue Heron Lake photos, bushes covered, where the park meets the Pacific Ocean, and the tree covered with trees sitting at the park entrance.
Is the camera amazing? No. But it’s very good, and I end up catching moments that I just won’t have if I didn’t wear glasses. For this reason, I do not see the camera as a replacement for my phone camera, but more a way to capture more photos and videos.
Characteristics I use the most: speakers with open ear in the wings of glasses, which allow me to hear podcast and music without blocking the noise of people, bikers and cars around me. Meta was far from the first company to put the speakers in Gota – Bosa has had a strong pair for years. But taking the flaws for open ear speakers is surprisingly good. I have been impressed by the quality of the audio and how little I miss the traditional headphones on these trips.
I have found myself talking to the assistant and that little drawback on my weekend trips. I recently asked questions about the nature I was seeing throughout the park – such as “Hey, Meta, look and tell me what kind of trees is this?” – as well as the origin of the historical buildings I saw.
I usually use bicycle trips as a way to break away from the world, so it seemed counterintors to talk to a chatbot of him during travels. However, I found that these short questions fueled my curiosity about the world around me without absorbing me in a rabbit hole of content and notifications, which is what usually happens when I use my phone.
And, again, the biggest thing about these features is that it all comes to a device.
This means fewer things to load, less mess in my bike gearbox, and fewer equipment to manage along my journey.
pits
While the meta glasses of the ray rays look great to walk around, they were not clearly designed by bike in mind.
Often, the meta glasses of the rays fall down my nose during a bumpy journey. When I bike and looking up to see what is in front of me, the thick frames block my appearance. (Most sunglasses for cyclists have thin frames and nose pads to solve these problems.)
There are some restrictions on how rays of rays work with other applications, which is a problem. As I like to take pictures and stop the music with the glasses, for everything else, my phone has to get out of my pocket.
For example, Ray-Ban Meta has a Spotify integration, but I had a difficult time to get it to play specific lists. Sometimes, the glasses played nothing when looking for a hearing list or playing the wrong Play list all.
I would like to see these improved integrations-and expanded to include more specific bike integration with applications like Strava or Garmin.
Ray-Ban Meta also doesn’t work super well with the rest of my iPhone, which is likely due to Apple’s restrictive policies.
I would like to be able to light the texts or navigate the apple maps with my meta -ray cups, but such traits may not be available until Apple releases its smart glasses.
This leaves the helper and the flaw. Characteristics is often regarded as the main point of sale of these glasses, but I often found it missing.
Meta’s voice is not as impressive as other Openai, Purplexity and Google products. His voices of he feel more robotics, and I find that her answers are less reliable.
I have tested the direct sessions of the Live Ray-Ban Meta, which were first discovered at the Meta Connect conference last year. Characteristics broadcast live video and audio by Ray-Ban Meta in a model he in the cloud, aiming to create a quieter way to interact with your helper and leaving him “see” what you see. In reality, it was a hot hallucinated mess.
I asked Ray-Ban Meta to identify some of the interesting cars I was bike near my apartment. Glasses described a modern Ford Bronco as a good Volkswagen beetle, though they both look nothing alike. Later, I was confident that a 1980 BMW was a Honda Civic. Cars closest but still very different.
During his direct session, I asked him to help identify some plants and trees. He told me an eucalyptus tree was an oak tree. When I said, “No, I think it’s an eucalyptus tree,” he replied, “Oh yes, you’re right.” Experiences like this make me doubt why I’m talking to him at all.
Google Deepmind and Openai are also working on multimodal sessions of it like what Meta offers with her smart glasses. But for now, the experiences look away from the end.
I really want to see an improved version of the smart glasses of one who can get bike trips. Ray-Ban’s Meta glasses are one of the most convincing devices I have yet to see, and I can see how their wearing on a trip would be a joy after some main updates.
