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.
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.
glassholes from googles try years back are basically what meta zuckmusk douches are trying oh so hard to reach now, probably a better option
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.