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’m a huge nerd, so I’d love a HUD like the B movie Sight Extended, gamifying my life to motivate me to mow the lawn and clean and wear pants. Sadly it seems the corps and gov will just use all this stuff to track and harvest the data from our every word/thought/blink and monetize every bit of it they can. Will likely end up more like the ad dreams from Ready Player One where ads are 90% of your vision, and they will only be used by creepy creepers for creeping.