Meet Kevin visits Japan & Reviews Meta Glasses

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>> At the beginning of August, I went to

Japan with my family. We went there on a

United flight and a big shout out to

United. They took us into the cockpit at

7 on a 787. It was really awesome,

especially as a pilot taking the boys

into here. Really cool. Look, fuel

switches. Uh anyway, it was really

exciting going to Japan, especially

because we took the Meta Glasses. So, in

this video, uh I'm going to break down

what it was like using the Meta Glasses

on a trip and whether or not they're

worth buying and sort of what the use of

them, uh is actually. First things

first, Japan really clean. Uh, that's

what everybody's always gonna say. It's

also really hot in August. Don't

recommend going for a run in August.

You're highly likely, I feel like, to

get heat stroke. The Toyota Alfred is

probably one of the most amazing cars

ever. It's like the Uber of Japan. It is

so cool. Uh, and uh, I have to say, uh,

Tokyo itself, I was a little surprised

just how commercialized Tokyo itself has

gotten. like it felt a little bit like a

dare I say a downtown uh like Beverly

Hills almost a lot of of of portions of

Tokyo and I think that's partly because

you really have uh a a city that desires

appealing to Chinese tourists who are

going to spend money on you know goods

basically like trying to get access to

you know French brands or US brands or

whatever. And so you have a lot of these

really big brands and stores and streets

and just sort of the bigger part of the

town of Tokyo. It's is, you know, city

town of Tokyo. It's a city of 14 million

people. Really, I have to say when the

my our favorite moments honestly were

leaving Tokyo because it just felt a

little too commercialized. Uh and that's

one thing I think we probably did wrong.

We didn't leave Tokyo uh until the last

day of our trip uh with the exception of

Disneyland Tokyo, which was great. The

last day of our trip, we went on sort of

a Mount Fuji uh exploration or however

you might call it. I've got the meta

glasses. Mind you, it's hot. So,

everywhere you're going to see me in

like short shorts and a tank top. Uh and

this was early in the morning, so you

couldn't even see Mount Fuji until later

in the day. But leaving Tokyo was our

favorite part. So going to Japan, great.

Leaving Tokyo was the best because then

you could actually go to some of the

smaller towns. Uh, and even though, you

know, you're still going to have some of

the the touristy kind of elements of

even smaller towns, it's nice to see

smaller more kind of natural features

like growing these gourds or whatever in

smaller towns or areas uh of the areas

like a couple hours outside of Tokyo.

And I personally wish we spent more time

doing that than focusing on the

commercial aspect of where our hotel was

because we're really really much when we

travel we kind of like to stay in one

place. We don't like to move that much

but we really enjoyed uh traveling out

to go check out you know temples.

There's a limit to obviously how much of

that you want to do or monuments or

again Mount Fuji whatever. Uh these

things were really exciting to me. uh

and escaping the big city. I I wish we

planned more of it. Like for example, we

went to these uh this ice cave they call

it. Uh and I filmed it with the meta

glasses. So the meta glasses, this is

where we'll touch on them a little bit.

They're really great for like giving you

this point of view that you're not going

to get otherwise. This is us walking

down into the ice cave and I'm holding

on to the railing. So, you don't really

want to hold your phone and film at the

same time. You certainly don't want a

DSLR.

Understanding that the film quality of a

tiny set of glasses like the Metagasses

is going to deteriorate in the darkness.

The meta glasses were the most clutch

feature of this trip in my opinion

because they really gave us this memory

or point of view that you really can't

capture otherwise or just wouldn't

capture otherwise. Uh so I'll go through

some of these other images here. Uh

these these are images or photos

straight from the meta glasses which is

remarkable. Uh and so they give you this

this perspective. Uh this actually was

the phone. I could tell because it's uh

you know the the wide angle here. I did

take it out. This was a metagasses shot.

So, it gives you a comparison.

Metaglasses shot here. And then a phone

shot here. Phone shot here. Phone shot

here of me wearing the metagasses. One

downside of metagasses is you can't get

photos of yourself. Right. Here's sort

of the ice cave with the meta glasses

on. Uh you can see kind of the little

blocks of ice or whatever. So, you know,

it's it's unique. There are cool things

to see outside of downtown Tokyo, right?

But there are things that we got to talk

about with the meta glasses that were

the absolute gamecher and they don't

have to be meta. I think in the future

you're going to have Microsoft glasses,

Apple glasses, you'll have Google

glasses. Warby Parker will have glasses.

Meta is apparently coming out with

glasses that'll have a little uh you

know insert uh what we were just looking

at it. The uh Hyperva is what they're

supposed to be called. Meta to unveil

Hyperva smart glasses and strategic play

for augmented reality. probably to pop

up notifications, calendar

notifications, timers, text messages, uh

you know, whatever. Uh combined with

potentially these $800 AR glasses would

be some form of wristband to kind of

control them. I'm not entirely sure what

additional benefits there will be for

these because to me going on vacation

with

camera glasses is what everybody should

do because what you don't want is to be

in a new place and then not

uh take pictures and document your

experience. What I found when I went

running one morning in Tokyo, I'll show

some photos here. I went running one

morning in Tokyo and I wanted to take a

lot of photos, but I probably only took

a fraction of the photos that I would

have had I had my Meta glasses. And I so

I didn't on this run. And these were

just some things that I saw as I ran

through Tokyo, which it's fine to run in

the morning. Uh you know, I really

enjoyed running uh in the morning. As

soon as it gets to the afternoon or

midday, it's a disaster. It's totally

dead. That's one thing that I thought

was really unique about Tokyo. Really,

really dead. Like in the mornings,

coffee shops don't even open until like

6:30 or 7. And I'm like, dude, in the

States, coffee shops open at like 4:30

or 5 in the morning. So, there's really

like this quiet respect for for peace.

Uh, and these are all photos that I took

with my phone. The vending machines are

great, but you really have to Apple Pay

the uh make sure you get one of those

transit cards on your phone.

Uh and then you could use more of the

vending machines. Most places take Tap

to Pay, but uh for places that don't

take Tap to Pay, you would want uh this

uh let me show it here. Oh, here. I'll

use this one right here. whatever this

is on screen. Stooka uh thingyama

majiggy here. That's pretty uh pretty

useful.

Whatever. Not only for getting through

the uh subway, although Uber is

fantastic there. You don't even need to

use the trains if you just want to Uber.

The Ubers are super cheap. They're good.

They're professional drivers. Really

nice, clean cars. But this is great for

even using the vending machines. Uh but

anyway, so I found as I was kind of like

on a run, uh everything's super dirt

cheap, too, by the way. I mean, it's

it's remarkable. I mean, these are all

like 90 cent drinks or 80 cent drinks.

It's like ridiculously cheap. Uh, so you

know, super barren, quiet if you go on

an early morning run, but I found I

probably took a fraction of the pictures

that I would have because every time I

saw something, I had to kind of go

through this moment of, h, do I really

want to stop and take out my phone right

now and take a picture? And that's where

I realized the meta glasses were such a

game changer. And again, it doesn't have

to be meta. I don't really care about

the meta aspect of it. the translation

product on uh the Meta Glasses doesn't

work for Japanese. So, I couldn't take a

picture of Japanese writing to translate

it. I couldn't, you know, translate with

Japanese because it doesn't support it

yet. The AI technology is kind of trash.

But really, what the game changer for me

was how quickly I could go to take

pictures with this. And that's what I

really enjoyed. In fact, it got so

extreme that uh Jack kind of made a meme

out of it. Uh and and he would always

joke uh and I videoed him saying it at

one point. He would always joke like,

"Oh, you know, this is this is Kevin

with AI glasses versus, you know, the

old school video Kevin." And the old

school video Kevin is you're somewhere

and you decide, okay, I got to go take a

picture. So, you pause what you're

doing. You take out your phone. You open

up the camera app. You got to get your

Face ID to work. You put your password

in. Uh and then you can take the

picture. Now, all of that can happen

fast if it's not glitching out or

whatever. I'm trying to find that jack

segment. I can't find it right now. Uh

but anyway, uh it's so much faster when

you're just wearing these because you

just push a button right here. So, as

you're around looking at whatever, the

way this functionally works is if you

want to take a picture, you just press

the button on the side here. Let me do

this. You uh let's go to this one. You

press the button on the side and you're

going to see a little light flash. See

this little light flash right here? This

is just sort of your warning that

somebody's either taking a picture or

video. And if you hold it, it'll blink

longer and slower cuz now it's filming a

video. Now, what's really cool about the

video filming portion is it'll film

about 3 minutes of video or 1 minute

depending on what you set it for. That

does mean you have a little bit of delay

in terms of uh hey like I got to get

through um what's it called? Uh like if

you got to get through a longer segment

and you're going to go film for more

than 3 minutes, you have to repeatedly

continue to film. I mean, frankly, at

that point, you should just take out

your phone. Uh so I didn't run into that

too much, but if you wanted to make a

longer form video, that that could

potentially be a little bit more

annoying. What I really enjoyed it for

was the point of view angles that you're

just not going to get otherwise. So,

I'll give an example here. I went

bowling the other day and uh used the

meta glasses because I I thought, okay,

let me try to use this as a point of

view tool. And it's the same thing that

you're going to have on vacation. It's

what's it like reliving a point of view?

And and that is the hardest thing to

kind of capture in life is like what was

it like seeing a certain thing through

your own eyes. Uh and that's one of the

benefits you get with these glasses. So

take a look at I'll throw this up on

screen. This is uh me going bowling. And

I kind of like coach myself through

this. Uh and you're not going to hear

it, but in the video I say like, "All

right, I'm going to I'm looking at the

right pin. I'm going to aim for that

second arrow." Uh and but this gives you

a POV of how functional these glasses

are when you're doing something with

both your hands. In this case,

obviously, you know, holding a bowling

ball, standing there with both hands,

come back, guide the ball, uh and uh and

go for the strike. Yeah, like these

things are awesome. Uh and so big big

fan of the glasses for those points of

view. Uh for example, we went through

this uh Tokyo kind of more touristy

thing. These are metag glasses going

through one of these like I don't know

art exhibits or studios or whatever.

Again, it's like a little touristy of a

thing, but it's kind of cool. Uh, and

when it's well lit, these glasses are

fantastic. It goes night, it just it's

like you're reliving your Tokyo

experience, right?

So, here you can see photos. Actually,

this here's another video. Uh, that's

not bad for being in glasses. Uh this

obviously an iPhone because uh taking

you could see me recording actually

because you've got the little light on

and the meta glasses. One thing to note

is if you cover up the meta glasses

light, the little uh notification light,

they'll stop recording. They won't work.

So you have to use that light. Uh I do

think everybody should have glasses like

this. It doesn't have again have to be

meta. And the battery life is decent. If

you're filming a lot, like if you're

constantly filming, your battery life's

probably 45 minutes if you're constantly

filming. Like I filmed this on the when

I did my Tesla robo taxi review, and uh

battery lift was about 45 minutes uh of

straight filming. Uh and so every time I

bring them somewhere, I just bring the

battery case with me. The battery case

is actually pretty decent. Uh, it's

really just a nice way to keep your

glasses uh, protected and it's just a

USB C case. Uh, kind of a mustave. And I

just keep this in my backpack. And I

don't think this has ever died, the

battery in the battery case. So, it's

really good at just continuously

recharging the phone when you take

little breaks. But, we'll go back to

more examples of uh, of this here. So

again, if you get the lighting, this is

all these are all meta glasses.

It's decent. In this case, I'm actually

holding my phone as a flashlight and

then taking a picture with the meta

glasses.

Not bad. Some of them though, you could

see like you can kind of see where the

struggle is. The camera technology just

isn't fantastic yet. Again, if you got

lighting, great. gives you that POV of

some of these different art

installations or, you know, whatever,

which is kind of cool. Uh, it also gives

you the POV of doing things. So, if I

go, let me see. Do I climb this with the

glasses on? I do. So, this is cool. You

know, here's Jack, Max, and myself

climbing across this barrier. I wouldn't

be able to film this with a phone

because I'm holding on to two ropes.

This is another example where uh you

know doing things

with the glasses gives you these

memories that you wouldn't otherwise

capture. And I think on a vacation this

is or or when you're spending time with

family or friends this is when you

really want to capture those moments uh

with your family. You don't want to lose

uh those those experiences.

So, uh, again, Japan,

uh, very, very clean. Loved where we

stayed. We stayed at the Tokyo Edition,

uh, hotel, which I'll show some pictures

of it here in just a moment. This hotel

I thought was fantastic. Uh, however,

it's it's in like a financial part of

the uh of the uh hotel. Uh, oh, this is

cool, by the way, as well. Like when you

go down to you go to get breakfast,

when you're filming with the glasses, it

feels much more natural to film people

and not like hold a camera in their

face. And so it's like, hey, it's

obvious he's filming cuz the little

things flashing, but you kill that

awkwardness. This is their buffet. The

buffet was amazing every morning

included. Like, shout out to the Tokyo

edition. It was it was so good. Uh and

and you know they had included food,

great uh like uh meals if you wanted

prep meals uh great view outside but

again this is all you know meta glass

here just sort of filming uh the

approach to to the table over here and I

think it's so fun because again like

when do you film this sort of angle?

Uh and so big shout out to this is a

Marriott hotel. Big shout out to them.

#notsponsored. Neither of the Meta

Glasses. Worth noting Metaglasses are

not sponsored either. Um, how much I

talk about them, they may as well be.

Uh, but this is an out of uh out of

metal glass shot of uh Lauren.

That's phone.

Uh, also phone

phone.

Another out of um Metaglass photo. Not

bad.

So, that's good. Let's get some more

photos here. So, that's the hotel was

fantastic. Really enjoyed that.

Experiencing the madness of like the

Nintendo store with the meta glasses.

Kind of cool. Got to go there. The

Nintendo store I think was worth going,

but very busy. This was probably one of

the busiest areas of Tokyo. And again,

very commercialized. That I think again

was one of the things that disappointed

me a little bit was we spent too much

time in Tokyo. Tokyo Disney highly worth

it mind you. Big fan of Tokyo Disney.

I'll pull up some photos of Tokyo Disney

here for Tokyo Disney is there are two

types of express passes that you can

get. Priority pass. That's it. There's

priority pass and premier access. But

what you do when you go to Disney is you

have to get both. The priority access

runs out of slots fast. So you have to

do that every hour. And Premiere you

could pay for. It's like 50 bucks to

basically, you know, get the fast pass

for each ride. Every hour on the hour

you set a reminder on your phone. Every

hour on the hour you could rebook the

premier access for a fee and get

essentially nearly front of the line.

You maybe 10-minute wait uh on each ride

even if the weights are like an hour,

hour and a half. totally worth doing

that every hour on the hour because they

don't have like a universal fast pass or

express pass that you could just use all

day long like you could at Six Flags or

whatever and then the priority one is

free but it books up by the time you get

to like 11:00 you're just not going to

be able to book anymore so you really

have to be there at open knock out the

free priority passes uh and that's the

strategy for Tokyo Disney but Tokyo

Disney personally I thought it was nicer

Then uh Disney Paris and Disney uh um

California

uh whatever California Disney, what do

you call it? Anyway, uh the California

Disney not as nice as this one. Disney

World in Florida obviously, you know,

beats. All these glasses, these shots,

by the way, these are all just shots

with the meta glasses. And so it's so

exciting for me because everywhere I go,

I'm just like, snap, snap, snap. I'm

just snapping pictures on all these

rides. And it's so great for capturing

those little moments of, you know, joy

in the kids' faces that you wouldn't

otherwise get on a phone because you

don't always have your phone out and

you're not dealing with constant

editing. One thing to know is the Meta

Glass photos, they sync automatically

with your camera roll. So, uh, over time

when you plug your thing, you know, your

your meta glasses in at home to charge

more, they sync automatically and they

just shows up in your camera roll. So,

you don't even have to worry about like

importing or SD cards or all that kind

of crap that you would otherwise have to

deal with. Uh, I also talked about this

previously where I made a, you know, I

wasn't allowed to take my Insta 360 onto

Tower of Terror. So, I just used the

meta glasses and I filmed the experience

of being on the Tower of Terror and

getting Jack's reaction, getting Max's

reaction, getting the people in the

actual Tower. I think it's so cool. Meta

glasses. Again, it doesn't have to be

Meta. It could be any company because I

don't think the Meta AI is like

particularly

uh you know something to die for. But um

I also compared the Meta Glasses to

uh my Insta 360 camera. This,

let me see here. These are my Meta

Glasses. So you'll be able to see the

difference in quality. Meta glasses on

Splash Mountain. So, the cool thing here

is I just turn them on to start

recording right before the big moment

that matters and then I don't have to

edit anything.

So, right before the big drop, you just

turn on the recording and you start

recording. Disney a really great

experience by the way in Disneyland uh

Tokyo. Really, really enjoyed it. But

then I don't like I'm holding the Insta

360 here. But like what a pain in the

butt. Uh so compare now though the

quality obviously you're going to get a

better quality in the Insta3. The

downside if you're the only one wearing

AI glasses on a trip is you don't get

you in the pictures, right? It's always

everyone else. I'm okay with that cuz

like I don't I don't need to be in all

the photos. Uh I always get embarrassed

especially when I'm wearing like shorts

and a tank top because it's freaking

hot. Like everybody's sweating, right?

But whatever. Uh, this is the Insta 360

version just to compare.

So, the quality is obviously going to be

better. And in post, I can edit over to

get the reactions uh of everyone, which

I which I think is cool. But I also I

would get that POV with the meta

glasses. See, like Jack's smile right

here, he's like, "Oh my gosh, look how

wet your glasses are." Like, it's cool

seeing it from this angle, but I'll tell

you, it's much more like dad mode

satisfying to see this face, right?

Like, watch this reaction. Uh, oops. Uh,

to see this reaction right here, these

faces from that POV. You can't recapture

that. You can't get that on a phone. So,

in the future, really, like everybody

should have glasses with cameras. I

don't know that the little HUD inserts

will really be that big of a deal. Uh,

we'll go through some more pictures

here. Okay, more pictures. Obviously, if

I'm in them, they are iPhone pick. Oh,

one thing to know about the meta

glasses. This is really confusing. Okay,

when you take a photo with the meta

glasses, there is a delay.

So,

uh,

when when you put them on and you go to

take a picture, uh, it'll make a shutter

sound, like a chick, like it took the

photo, but it's actually going to take

the photo about 34 of a second before

the chic, which is really annoying. So,

that's a nuance that I didn't like. Like

I feel like when the shutter goes,

that's when the picture should happen.

But it's really like the camera goes,

"Okay, I took the picture. Now I'm going

to tell Kevin I took the picture." So

there's about a 34 of a second delay

between picture taken and when you hear

the sound, which is annoying. Uh, and

then another annoyance is, okay, I want

you to like look at these glasses here.

which which of the uh like here where do

you think the picture is going to take?

Okay. So, watch where the flash is.

Okay. Watch this picture. Okay. Did you

see the light turn on right here? I'll

do one more.

You see the light turn on right here?

This is not where the picture gets

taken. So, if if you take a picture of

somebody and they look at the light,

which is the natural thing to do, it's

going to look like they're side eyes and

they're not looking at the actual camera

because the camera that actually takes

the picture is here. This is the camera

taking the picture, not the one with the

light. So, then it's like,

so you have to like train people to not

look at the light. And so I feel like

half my photos are people looking at the

light and not people looking at where

the damn camera is, which is just dumb.

I get it because they're trying, you

know, like they're trying to separate

the devices. So I understand why, like

from a practical or manufacturing point

of view, they did it that that way, but

I just think it's dumb, right? Somebody

says, "Are the glasses waterproof?" I

don't know. I mean, I took them on

Splash Mountain and they were fine. I

don't think they're rated as as

waterproof. How long can you record

videos on the metal glasses for? It's

Well, they're I think they're 1080. I

don't know. You could look up those

specs, but you can record for 1 minute

long or 3 minutes long and then you just

have to take a new clip, right? Which is

not that big of a deal. Uh so, some of

these are videos. So, here you can see

again the meta glasses will kind of

deteriorate

uh in low light, but it's not bad, you

know, like what do you expect, right?

So, uh, I always thought this is kind of

cool because you get like this point of

view of me using the priority pass or or

the premier access. This might be the

premier access one. So, like again, the

point of view shots and like people like

ushering you around and stuff. It's so

cool. You don't get this POV uh

otherwise. So, yes, I I'm I'm a big

shill for this. uh you know, again, just

like turning it on to take a little

footage or when you're playing those

interactive games where you're where

you're shooting uh the guns in the games

or whatever. Uh you know, it's obviously

going to be a lot harder for you to

control or like use both hands and take

pictures if you wanted to, right? So,

okay, let's get through here. Splash

Mountain stuff. That's cool. Go through

this together. We saw this

Some of these are just iPhone pictures.

Oh yeah. Uh food pictures.

These are all uh let's see here. Go

through here. Oh yeah, there you go. I

tried taking pictures with the uh meta

glasses of the the stuff and like

translating it. It Japanese yet. Worth

knowing that. Uh what else here? You've

got

uh let's see here more shots.

It's so hot. Lauren's like, "Damn it,

it's so hot." POV shots going through

Tokyo Disney.

Cool. Oh, there are some cool shots over

here. Let me see if I can show you the

elevator. This is meta meta glasses

right here. Take a look at this. So,

this is like just getting ready to go

on. I think this is Journey to the

Center of the Earth, which is awesome.

Met you in San Diego when you were

running for governor. Oh, what's

welcome. That's super cool. Oh, thanks

for joining. So, again, like just sort

of an example of trying to go through

here. What is it like

POV wise going through and like your

eyes going through a new experience like

the elevator for Journey to the Center

of the Earth. Let's fast forward a

little bit. Uh I think I filmed the

actual elevator experience here. Yeah.

So this, you know, again, meta glasses

in low light. It works, but it's kind of

cool. And it picks up audio. Great. By

the way, if you want to use this as a

phone, fantastic. If you're ever just

walking around and you want to play

music and you don't really want

everybody else to clearly hear your

music, it's actually pretty good. I

guess somebody close to you, they could

hear that you're playing music, but uh

the audio quality is great on phones.

I'm told that when I use the meta

glasses to make phone calls that people

think I'm holding the phone right up to

my ear. Uh which is awesome. This was

taken with my phone. I'm just going

through my Disneyland Tokyo experience.

Jack or Max was feeding this Max loved

feeding this dog. We kept telling him

not to, but

that's all right. Oh, yeah. I finally

gave Jack a backpack so he could carry

his own stuff. But another meta glasses

point of view, you know, I'm holding a

bag. You know, we're trying to deal with

stuff. I'm holding hand sanitizer for

Max. These are shots that you can't get

if you don't have them in glasses,

throwing up Tower of Terror. Uh anyway,

Disney Tokyo fantastic experience. Whole

day was just a real pleasure. And and

the kids didn't complain at all which

was fantastic about like their

you know there's a lot of walking

obviously you have to do look pictures

like this like Jack happy he's buying

something like a Baymax or whatever

just really quickly at the register. You

don't want to inconvenience people

behind you with like oh hold on let me

take my phone out and take a picture. So

like hey Jack quick pick click done.

Awesome.

really fun. So great, really great

experience. Oh yeah, my steps exploded,

by the way. But not only that, you know

where my steps have been like total like

a S?

March and April. You know what I was

doing in March and April? Why my like my

health scores went crap? I'll show you

my V2, by the way. I think that's really

cool. Uh think about for a moment what

Kevin was doing in March and April. So

this is my V2 max which in April and

March was so freaking low. It I was I

was probably at like the 45 percentile

on this you know February it's like at

40 like really bad like not healthy in

my opinion. And uh and just sort of

quick shout out to using like a watch to

track this uh when I finished my flight

training uh and I actually went back to

like being a human again and exercising.

You could see my you could see that dip

there during flight training which

basically started here during flight

training. And look at where it sits now.

And it's at like 557.

I think now it's at like I think the

last read is like look at that 57.1

on the V2 max. That's really good.

That's like 91 percentile for my age and

I could feel it. You know when your V2

is low, you can't even run 2 miles

without stopping. Uh now I could run,

you know, 10 12 miles without stopping

and I'm just not exhausted. It's like

super chill. That's really great. So uh

yeah, make sure to track your health.

But anyway, that was just a tangent that

came up looking at my step truck. Oh,

yeah. There are so many beautiful just

like malls and uh really great

grocery stores or whatever. Really cool.

Uh

here's a comparison, direct comparison.

iPhone, Meta Glasses. I mean, look at

that difference. You can't even really

tell a difference. And I did that on

purpose just to sort of showcase

uh the difference here.

When there's proper lighting, it really

doesn't matter.

>> POV is due one year ago. Oh my gosh,

that is so cool.

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>> POVU now. Oh, that's so cool.

He's showing the difference of basically

what and he was saying this for a while

like oh that's so cool let me make the

decision let me take out my phone I go

take out my phone then after I take out

my phone uh I got to you know make sure

it logs in and take the picture versus

the meta glasses of just the snapshot

how easy it is like the painlessness of

using glasses

is amazing and this is where again like

I am not here to shill the meta stuff

and I think Japan is worth going to. I'm

here more just to say that like as an

investor I think these products will be

a boom for a lot of different companies.

You know, Warby Parker, Microsoft,

Apple, they're all going to be using

this kind of stuff. And that's where

when we look at, you know, them

potentially getting into

uh a deeper push into Meta Glasses

uh with this Hyper Nova release that'll

include a small display in its right

lens. Basically, what this is is it'll

probably be something that shows like

notifications or like little things that

I like having like little widgets that I

like. Uh, I like widgets like maybe you

want to keep the price of Bitcoin up or

maybe the price of the Q's up, maybe you

want a timer. Like I always set timers

with the kids like ah, you know, go to

your room for 3 minutes or whatever,

right? Like having that little timer in

the corner. Uh, having a uh, you know, a

message notification or calendar

reminder notification. This would be

like a great thing to have in the corner

of these glasses as sort of like

augmented reality, if you will. Uh I

didn't love

uh this particular area. We walked

through the alleys to kind of get there.

This again just gives you like a little

meta glasses again POV during the day.

Uh me trying to figure out where to go.

Uh and then you know they've got like

the pig cafes over here where people sit

down and I guess they want to like pet

pigs or whatever. uh too too busy, too

touristy, too too like like I I get

claustrophobic when there too many

people around. They did have hand

sanitizer everywhere, which I thought

was fantastic. The small towns, the

small cafes, the local restaurant. This

is so cool, too. And walking around

smaller towns, I mean, they actually

have these little like statues in their

yards or like bonsai trees in their

yards. It's really cool. giant peaches

and and giant Fuji apples, which

apparently have nothing to do with Fuji

Mountain, but like look, this is me

filming with the Meta Glasses wanting to

buy uh you know, Fuji apples and like I

don't know how to speak Japanese, so you

just like point at stuff. Apple event

set for September 9th. Oh, that's jobs

day. That's when we get the QCW

revisions. How interesting. Uh and then

it go for the peaches as well. But

again, like, how do you film this point

of view holding a phone? It'd be so

awkward. This is not awkward. This is

cool. You know, small little town. Uh,

you know, obviously they know tourists

are going to come, so so um but

whatever. Um, this is some of the best

peaches ever, too. Like super juicy. Uh,

I love this

remodeled East Ventura compound, fully

renovated. Getting red fit

notifications. or going to pay like tap

to pay. Again,

I would never on a trip have these POVs.

Take a shot every time I say POV for

point of view. There's Apple Pay here

with my watch or I don't even remember

what I do. Let's find out. This is Yeah,

look at that. Apple Pay with my watch.

Boom. Because they have Apple Pay

everywhere. You know, this is all meta

glasses right here. So, I think my

VREF's 110. I'm at 113 knots right now

coming in to land uh the jet. Uh and

here we go. I think I went a little long

on this one, but that's the runway was

plenty long, so it didn't really matter.

But it just gives you an example of like

that p that point of view of actually

flying the aircraft. And uh you know,

you don't really get that

that direct angle. I've got the Insta

360 or different angles that I can

rotate. You don't really see me doing

it, but you can see me going through

some checklist items here or whatever.

I mean, whatever. Uh, again,

so many applications I've found that are

so useful uh for glasses like this that

I I can't stress enough how much I think

there's going to be a revolution in

everybody ultimately wanting glasses

like this. If I were to go back, I would

definitely make an itinerary of going to

local Japanese

cities that are smaller, going to local

theme parks, local restaurants. Get out

of Tokyo. It's sad that we didn't travel

really out of Tokyo with the exception

of Tokyo Disney, which is obviously very

commercialized, and then uh the last day

that we were there cuz that was our

favorite. That was like, okay, now we

can actually see at least some sample of

more traditional Japanese food going to

a restaurant uh that's more traditional

Japanese rather than in Tokyo where

they're trying to cater to American or

like Chinese tourists or whatever. Um I

don't know. So hopefully that helps you.

Uh there's those are like I guess if I

consolidated that travel out of Tokyo,

have glasses.

Uh, Tap to Pay works great. Have cash

for some things. You don't you don't

need more than like $200 USD in cash or

even probably less, like $100 cuz there

were only two times I couldn't pay for

something. It was the ice cave I needed

Japanese yen for and Disney's tram.

That's it. Those are the only things I

needed Japanese yen for. Uh, otherwise,

you just you just don't need them. Uh,

everyone has Tap to pay, which is great.

Get a card with no foreign transaction

fees. Personally, I recommend you use

the um Venture X card. If you want, you

could use my affiliate link. Um I

encourage you do that. Uh met go to meet

Kevin.com/c1.

Meet Kevin.com/cap1.

Really great because you, you know,

basically it's a bare minimum 2% on

everything. Uh unless of course you have

Robin Hood Gold, then use Robin Hood

Gold. But uh you get I think it's was it

10x on hotels and 5x on flights which is

huge for traveling. So as long as you

travel huge uh reward points and and

very easy to use their redemption

portal. Uh big fan when I I was just in

Austin, Texas and I you for the robo

taxi to test robo taxi and I stayed in a

hotel and I booked it through the

capital one uh which I've only had the

card you know capital one metrox card.

I've only had the card for maybe a month

or so. Uh and uh you know, paid for the

$700 night with with my points

so seamlessly. It was so great. So so

happy I have the card. It's it's already

uh paying dividends. Uh and I actually

cancelled our American Express Platinum,

not only my own personal platinum, but I

canled the House Hack American Express

Platinum card because I just feel like

the benefits have fallen behind what

Chase is doing with the Sapphire card.

like you should either have the

Sapphire, the Venture X card, or the

Platinum for travel. Platinum is way

behind. So, right now it's either

Sapphire or Venture X. Those are your

travel cards. Uh and if you uh you know,

Daily Reward, obviously Robin Hood, if

you have it. If you don't, you get

really have to go for a 2x card. 2X card

that I love is still either the Venture

X or the City Double Cash. So, I

actually got the City Double Cashe card

for House Hack. Now, you can't use uh a

um like you can't get a corporate zero

fee 2x

uh card. So, you just have to like apply

for it yourself. Where'd I put it? We

don't use the card. We just use it like

online. Uh oh, I know where I put it.

Okay. So, you uh you don't actually, you

know, corporate card doesn't actually

have to be a corporate card. Just who

who's going to be responsible for it?

But I'm not worried about house hack not

paying its bills. So I signed up for the

double cash for house hack. We only used

the double cash for house hack and it's

great cuz now house hack gets 2% back.

We don't have to deal with this bull

crap. Like with I got like 1.3% cash

back on average. And we we got like

Lowe's gift cards. And I'm like yes I

know I'm going to be shopping at Lowe's

a lot. But what a pain in the butt. Like

now I have to deal with the gift cards

versus just getting cash back. And I

would have gotten more cash back. So

anyway, little note there on uh on cards

and it gives you kind of a full look

into my take on Japan. Hopefully that's

helpful.

>> Why not advertise these things that you

told us here? I feel like nobody else

knows about this.

>> We'll we'll try a little advertising and

see how it goes.

>> Congratulations, man. You have done so

much. People love you. People look up to

you.

>> Kevin Praath there, financial analyst

and YouTuber. Meet Kevin. Always great

to get your take.