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I have a set of original rayban stories. They are excellent hardware hampered by shite, shortsighted software, both on the glasses and on the app. 1) The kille
by KaiserPro 3y ago
I have a set of original rayban stories. They are excellent hardware hampered by shite, shortsighted software, both on the glasses and on the app.
1) The killer feature is not the camera, but the sound. Having bluetooth audio with you, without stuff in/over your ears is really really great.
2) The physical button action is swapped. single press is video, long press picture.
3) the touch pad is hard to find and there is no texture difference. Not only that but its really easy to trigger music playing by holding them in your hand.
Over all the hardware is great.
Firmware, however, is utterly shite.
For the first year, the maximum time you could get them to play music was about 15 minutes. They'd just stop, disconnect from Bluetooth and need a power cycle to get back again.
They would randomly disconnect for shits and giggles. worse than cheap bluetooth headphones. Whom everlet them out the door in such a poor state, then compounding it by not actually fixing the problems, just shitting out half backed features, should be told off (I'm looking at you Boz).
Then there is the assistant. Functionally limited, I don't use them because you have to say "hey facebook" as the wake word. I'm not saying that in fucking public. who though that was a good idea clearly has been with the company too long.
The app is called "view" its now only just been integrated into the ios photoroll. for the longest while it had its own photo gallery, and you needed to manually sync the photos you wanted.
Whats even more odd is there is no integration with either instagram or facebook, so getting the photos and videos into either of them is a multi-app multi-stage faff.
TLDR:
Great hardware, shit firmware, lots of promise squandered by a total lack of QA or attention to quality or detail in basic flow.