TL;DR: you now need to pay a $20/month “meta premium” subscription to use a 100% offline feature that runs on your own malware-ridden smartglasses.
If you don’t subscribe, you can use the feature that is already included in the hardware that you already paid for 3 hours each month
The now-paywalled feature boosts the voice of the speaker in front of you, something that even low-end ANC earphones are doing now. 5 minutes of free usage per day is basically nothing.
These will identify sad nerds the way taped glasses identify the nerd in old movies.
If I see anyone with meta/snap/etc glasses, I’m going to just assume they’re fucking pathetic assholes.
I don’t know if “taped glasses nerd” was such a negative term in old movies.
And I correlate the Meta glasses more with a “tech creep” and manosphere Musk worship culture.
Like, I’m an introverted nerd. I could be “taped glasses guy” if I wore glasses; hell, my sunglasses are glued. But even if I was a full throated Tech Bro trying to idolize Zuck, I’m way too introverted to wear these out in public because you’d be filming people; thats mortifying to me.
It needs a different kind of personality, I think.
For sure tech bro types.
But also is WorldStar still a thing? Maybe that all moved to tik tok. I could see posters on those platforms using these to record.
glassholes from googles try years back are basically what meta zuckmusk douches are trying oh so hard to reach now, probably a better option