I’m sorry to say the glasses have continued to feel buggy, and I honestly believe they were released prematurely. The ability to respond to messages is extremely limited, relying only on dictation, which is frustrating when it misinterprets words and offers no easy way to correct them. There’s no writing feature to scribe on a surface as advertised yet and i wonder how that will work. keyboard feature? Music playback is also problematic: if I pause a track and then use the thumb double-tap gesture to invoke Meta, exiting with a middle finger tap consistently resumes the music, even though this isn’t documented anywhere. It’s disruptive, especially when talking with someone, since I can’t simply pause with a pointer finger tap but instead have to touch the glasses or say “Meta stop.” Bluetooth added another headache—while waiting in a store, I initiated Meta to play music, but it played through my car instead of the glasses, and I had to disconnect the car manually before the glasses would connect, I couldn't get it to switch over just picking it thru the the app as it wasn't showing available and trying to do it thru bluetooth also was failing. Defeats the purpose of $800 glasses meant to keep my phone in my pocket more. Text messaging support is equally disappointing; longer texts are cut off in the small display box, scrolling just skips to the next message or option, and unlike Instagram or Messenger, tapping doesn’t open the full conversation. For such an advanced device, this is unacceptable—pagers handled this better decades ago.
Meta seems to have prioritized features like translation and social media scrolling, and getting info about items. but most people rely on native texting tied to their phone numbers, which are far more constant than using social handles. The translation scenario. its not putting translation over text as ou would think. it takes a photo and then your scrolling thru a phot with your thumb. in advertisements its makes it look as if it creates an overlay over what your looking at which is far from how it is actually implemented. it took multiple attemots and tries to get this to work and translate what i was looking at. more of a hassle than it was worth especially if i was looking to translate something in say a moving vehicle looking at a sign. poor implementation. It has no real idea wht you are exactly looking at as it cant tell what your eyes are staring at like say a vision pro or similar technology. Its looking at everything even things you might not even be looking at.
Since I don’t need prescription lenses, the glasses don’t quite serve a pupose as glasses. Its like a kid wearing glasses to just wear glasses because they aren't serving any truly functional purpose which even more exacerbates the price tag of entry. They dont much serve as a stylish pair of sunglasses and i would much rather spend less and have varying pairs for the same cost of one overly large heavy and chunky pair of sunglasses that i cant even wear in the water or a the beach without fear of getting sand or water in them. Adding prescriptions only makes them an extraordinarily expensive pair that now one would need to depend on to see with again limited use that doesn't quite justify the cost and when you ey sight changes which it will well now you got worthless glasses that you cant even change the lenses out. Overall, the lack of functionality doesn’t justify the cost, the displays feel like a gimmick, and the supply issues only worsen the experience. I’ll be returning these and opting for the cheaper Meta Gen 2, since the displays don’t add enough value for the additional price, and the deployment has been poorly thought out. Maybe ill ditch the while idea until we get a real functional pair of smart glasses that have an ai that can perform task like control smart home devices, read my notices and messages from any platform even my native ones and i can add prescription lenses after purchase. this is not a product ready for consumers imo. its still beta
