The near joy of biking with Ray-Ban Meta glasses

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For years, the weekend bike’s journey has fled the sacred for me. Each paddle stroke helps to melt stroke stroke throughout the week and I have collected a few gadgets that make these rides better. However, I have learned the very difficult way that the very gear is taken away from the journey itself, forcing you to operate a network of pings and battery instead of riding a shocking bike.

Enter Roy-Ban Meta: Smart glasses that make my weekend rides make it easier and more fun.

Wearing sunglasses, a pair of headphones and a full ride with my phone to jump around to take photos, I now have a device that helps everything.

The meta of the verdict under the helmet.Figure Credit:Maxwell Jeff / TechCrunch

Ray -ban Meta Smart Glasses have just been a surprise hit with more people than me — Meeta says It has sold these millions of devicesAnd CEO Mark Zuckerberg recently said Sales have increased threefold in the last yearThe

Several Reddit thread And YouTube video Suggest that many people are wearing ray-ban meta glasses while riding a bike. Meta has been caught as well – it has been reported to be building a AI Smart glasses with Oki’s next generation, especially for athletesThe

I will never use my ray-ray-naughty metus. However, a few months ago, I decided to try them.

Now, I wear these glasses more on the bike ride elsewhere. Meant to me with this smart glasses that got enough of enough things to meet Something Here It can be used to use it with a pleasure to use and with a few upgrades.

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A key sales center of Ray-Ban Meta is that they are only a hard pair of Re-Ban sunglasses-my transition lens and a clean plastic body with a clean plastic body.

I got this job well to ride the bike, protecting my eyes from the sun, dirt and pollen. They sit at ease underneath the helmet of the bike – but perhaps not completely. (It is more later.)

Matter Smart Glasses Faculty is the camera that sits on your right and left eye. The glasses me simply pressing a button on the top right corner of the frame on my rides instead of jumping with my phone and videos on my rides – something that looks a bit complicated and dangerous.

Blue Heron Lake has shot to meet the verdict. Figure Credit:Maxwell Jeff / TechCrunch
Figure Credit:Maxwell Jeff / TechCrunch

While riding through the Golden Gate Park in San Francisco last weekend, I used the Ray-Ban Meta glasses to snap the beautiful blue Heron Lake, shrub-covered hills where the park was combined with the Pacific Ocean and used the tree covered track at the entrance to the park.

Is the camera amazing? No But this is pretty good, and if I didn’t wear the glasses, I would not only have. Because of that, I don’t see the camera as a replacement of my phone’s camera, but rather more photos and videos perfectly capturing.

The feature I use most: Open-ear speakers in the arms of the glasses, which let me listen to podcasts and music without blocked the sound of people, bikers and cars around me. Meta was far from the first company that puts the speaker into glasses – Bose had been a tough pair for yearsThe However, it is amazing to accept Meta’s open-ear speakers. I am fascinated by audio quality and in these rides how I miss the traditional tait headphones.

I saw Meta’s AI assistant on my weekend ride. I recently asked questions about the nature I was watching across the park – like “Hey, Meta, see and tell me what kind of tree is it?” – as well as the source of the Historic Tihasic Building.

I usually use bike rides as a way to unplug the world, so it seemed opposed to talking to AI chatboats during rides. However, I stoke my curiosity without sucking my curiosity about the world around me, which is usually when I use my phone when I use my phone.

And again, the biggest thing about these features is that they all come to a device.

It means less things to charge, low chaos in my biking gear box and low devices to manage my ride.

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Although Ray-Ban Meta looks great for walking around, they are not designed to clearly keep the bike in mind.

Often, the meta glasses of the ray-ray disinfection fall under my nose while traveling to a riot. The dense frames block my scene when I look for the bike and look in front of me. (There are thin frames and nose pads to solve these problems in most sunglasses for cyclists)

There are some restrictions around how Ray -ban Meta glasses work with other applications that are a problem. When I prefer to take photos and break the music with glasses, for anything else, my phone will get out of my pocket.

For example, there is a Spotify Integration of Ray-Ban Meta, but I was very difficult to play the AI ​​assistant to play specific playlists. Sometimes, when I ask for a playlist or completely the wrong playlist, the glasses played nothing.

I would like to see these integrated developed-and extend to include more biking-specific integrity with applications like Strava or Garmin.

Ray-Ban Meta also doesn’t work very well with the rest of my iPhone, which is probably due to Apple’s limited policies.

I would like to be able to fire or easily navigate the texts through the Apple map with my Ray-Ban Meta glasses, but Apple may not be available as it is unless it publish its own smart glasses.

It leaves Meta’s AI assistant. The AI ​​feature is often identified as the main sales center of these glasses but I often see it lacking.

Mater Voice AI Open, confusion and Google’s other voice AI products are not as impressive. Its AI voice feels more robotic and I find the answers to be less reliable.

I tested recently launched judgment-redeemed Mater Live Video AI sessions, which was First unveiled at the Meta Conference Conference last yearThe The feature streams live video and audio in an AI model from Roy-Ban Meta to Cloud, gives your AI assistant to create a more pause and “see” what you see. In fact, it was a hallucinated hot mess.

I asked Roy-Ban Meta to identify some of the most interesting cars that were riding a bike to my apartment. The glasses described a modern Ford Bronko as a vintage Volkswagen Beetle, though the two do not show anything the same. Later, the glasses confidently told me that the BMW Honda of the 1980s was a citizen. Nearby, but still very different cars.

During the Live AI session, I asked AI to help identify some plants and trees. AI told me that an eucalyptus tree was an oak tree. When I said, “No, I think it’s a eucalyptus tree,” AI reacts, “Oh yes, you are right.” A experience like this asks me why I am talking to AI at all.

Google Dipmind and Openi Meta offer their smart glasses with a multimodal AI session like that offers. However, the experiences seem far from the end.

I really want to see an advanced version of AI smart glasses that I can take on the ride of the bike. Ray -ban meta glasses are one of the most visible AI devices I have seen and I can see how to wear a few keys after upgrade.

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