why I'm sending the Meta AI Display glasses back to meta.

your phone. What was your name?

>> Kevin Pafra.

>> Kevin.

>> The new Meta Glasses with display

inside. I just ordered and subsequently

cancelled them. In this, I'm going to

break down exactly why, and the reasons

are not what you would expect. First

things first, you might be thinking, I

cancelled my new Meta Glasses order

because, well, I already have Meta

Glasses. But these are the old ones.

They don't have the display on the

inside. They're not as cool. Well,

that's not the reason. We'll talk about

the display in just a moment. You might

be thinking it's because there is now

reporting that Meta is going to use any

kind of Meta AI chatbot interactions to

enable better sales of advertisements to

us. And while that does give me some

privacy concerns around what they're

going to end up doing with the glasses,

and frankly, I can't wait until Apple

comes out with their glasses because if

there's any company I feel like I could

trust, which is basically no company,

but if there's anyone that potentially

comes close to being willing to fight

for our privacy, I think that's Apple,

though even that I have my skepticisms

on. That's it. It is certainly not Meta.

But no, that also isn't the reason I

ordered, went to the Meta display demo

for the new display glasses.

And then 10 minutes later, while I was

on FSD in the Cyber Truck driving home,

I subsequently cancelled the order.

Yeah. The reason Oh, make sure my

microphone's there and we can actually

hear.

There we go.

The reason actually comes down to why I

use the Meta Glasses. See, I just bought

the new release of the Meta Glasses for

sport purposes. You might have seen

those. They're a little larger and a

little rounder, and they're designed to

have so many microphones that you can

actually be skiing or moving at about 30

mph and still hear what you're saying.

That is absolutely insane and

incredible. It makes me really excited.

I can't wait to get those. And so, of

course, I ordered those because we've

got ski season coming up and I can't

wait to go skiing and try them out with

them. But I will say after I ordered

them, I'm like, man, but they've got the

new display glasses coming out. Did I

just waste my money buying the display

ones or or or the, you know, the larger

skiing ones, the sport ones, because

they don't have a display inside of

them? Did I waste my money on the sport

ones if I'm only always going to want to

wear the display ones?

Today, I know the answer to that is no.

I am grateful that I bought the sport

glasses, and I am grateful that I have

the OG version of the Meta glasses. I've

actually got both the Oakley version uh

and the Ray-B bands version. Shout out

to Ray-B bands and Meta, by the way. The

first one uh I took to a lazy river in

Austin, Texas.

Shout out to Kalahari Resorts.

And if you're watching this, the server

who remembered us from a year later,

fist bump, man. Anyway, uh shout out to

them. They actually warranty replace the

ones that I broke, which I was totally

willing to pay for the repair on, but

they're like, "Ah, it's all right."

Like, "All right, we'll clutch. Cool."

So, shout out to the customer service. I

I will give them credit for that. All

that said, why did I not want to

continue with my display order? After

all, I tried them on at the store. I

went into the Best Buy. I was excited

for my appointment. The representative

there said that 90% of the people who

try them on end up buying them.

>> How now, how many people do you think go

from demo to selling, like buying?

>> Most of them.

>> Are you serious?

>> I'll say 90%.

>> That's awesome. Like people just love

it.

>> Oh, that's really exciting.

>> All right. So, I'll put you on the

wristband.

>> I learned how to use the trackpad.

>> You don't really have to touch it, but

it's just

>> um recommended to just so like you know

the feel of it.

>> Oh, that's weird.

>> Which is okay. She said my iMes should

sync up via the Meta app and end up

displaying on screen so I could see

notifications on screen. But there were

a few problems that I ran into that I

didn't really appreciate until I was in

the car ride home. Problem number one,

where the display is is kind of like if

we take this picture right here and

assume this is your peripheral. So the

frame of what I'm filming in the display

is like right

here. And I'm like, man, I kind of wish

it were like here. And so I asked her

like, can I move it from this kind of

annoying spot where it is to here? And

there's no X or Y axis to adjust it. The

only thing you could do is like tilt it.

So I'm like, well, what good does that

do me? So I can't like X or Y move. Now

that'll change with a software update.

I'm confident of it. I'm sure this is

just like, you know, V1 basically. So

that'll change, but that wasn't enough.

I could have gotten past that. That

wasn't enough to get me to cancel the

$999 order. It was actually much more

than that. The whole premise, and maybe

I'm unique in this, okay? The whole

reason I bought the Meta Glasses is so

that I can get away from technology and

feel like I am in the moment. When I go

pick up my children, I don't want

technology in my face, which I know is

ironic because I'm wearing it, but it's

because I want to capture the real

moment. See, I wear prescription

glasses. And even if you didn't wear

prescription glasses, what I love about

the Meta glasses is when I put them on,

I can turn on the video recording and

have full confidence that what is in

front of me is being documented. So when

I pick up that beautiful child

and I play with them or I throw them,

you know, up in the air or I go to a

playground with them or whatever, I

capture their reactions and that moment

without having to think about

technology. See, I actually feel really

satisfied when I do that because I feel

like I'm not having to pull out a phone

and then I see notifications and text

messages,

which is literally what I'm trying not

to see when I'm with my family. The

whole point of the glasses is to capture

those moments with my family, with my

family on vacation doing fun things. I

don't want my Bloomberg notifications or

my text message notifications on a

little screen popping up. Now then I

realize like I could just disable those

notifications within the you know vision

thing. Sure, but I don't even want to

think about having to zoom in on my

videos or zoom in on my pictures and use

this trackpad device to control

settings. I don't care about any of

that. All I want to do is take a picture

like this or hold it down two seconds

and it starts video recording and for

the next three minutes I don't have to

worry. For the next 3 minutes I know all

my experiences are being documented and

I can just escape from technology. So

I'm ironically using technology to

escape from technology. When I have this

screen I actually realize my aura ring

was telling me that like I I seemed

stressed during that moment. And I don't

know if it was excited. I don't know if

we could tell the difference between

stress or excitement or what, but I

realized what was happening was I was

starting to think, okay, like, well,

what notifications am I going to get?

You know, how am I going to respond to

those notifications subject? And then I

realized I don't even really want the

notifications on here because it's not

like I could just quickly click on them

and open up any app that's related to

those notifications.

Instead, I'm stuck with the worst sort

of purgatory where you potentially see a

notification, but then you're kind of

like, "Oh, now I need to go to my my

phone or whatever." That's what I

actually love about the watch. Uh, see,

with the Apple Watch, I personally set

up a lot of different focus modes. So, I

set up a family focus mode and I set up

a streaming focus mode or a not

streaming focus mode so that I get the

notifications I want when I want them

and nothing else.

When I'm putting the meta glasses on,

for me, I don't want to feel like

technology is in my life. I actually

want to just escape from re from that

that technological reality for a moment

and be present with my family yet still

capture the memory. And that's what I

can't get with any other device. If I

take out a DSLR, man, I got to deal with

the settings and carrying it around and

the battery and tripods and all this

crap or microphones or whatever. If I

take out a camera on my phone, so my

phone, I got to deal with all the

notifications I'm going to see or the

notification summary or the temptation

to open it up. I'd rather just have my

phone gone. Put my glasses on,

disconnect, and bringing notifications.

I get it. It's the future. The Apple

glasses are going to have it all. But

you know what? The meta stuff is just

too clunky right now to make it

pleasant. So, I'm not bagging on the

future of glasses. I think the future of

glasses is great, but this sort of V1

iteration for $1,000, way too clunky.

And the lag, the even the lady was

having trouble with latency between her

phone and the demo device. The latency

will create so much additional stress

and frustration for I got the

notification, but I want to I want to

act on the notification, but I can't

because I'm in notification purgatory.

It's just increasing my stress. So, uh,

that said, I cancelled my Meta Glasses

AI display order because I prefer not to

have the display. Maybe that makes me

seem like a boomer. Maybe that's ironic.

Maybe that doesn't make any sense at

all. But to me, it makes all the sense

in the world because when I want

technology, I want it. But when I want

to get away from technology, I want to

get away from technology. And that's my

answer as to why I cancelled the Meta AI

glasses with the display after going to

do the demo, buying them, and then

making a U-turn while on FSD. You have

feedback. I heard you want to add to

this story cuz you listened to my video

while you're marble setting and uh you

wanted to add. Mind you, I want to hear

what you have to say, but then I'll give

you a little bit of an update because um

I want to make sure we're talking about

the right glasses. But go ahead and say

what you said. Um, so a good thing about

the meta glasses is that you um if you

want to like show something while you're

filming it, like you with if you have

your phone, you have to hold your phone

and then like have your your thing that

you're showing in your other hand and

but if you if you have the meta glasses,

you can just hold it with both hands and

just click the button and you're filming

it and you could like like do stuff with

it. It's hands-free filming basically.

>> Yeah.

>> Yeah. So, the glasses, by the way, that

I was uh talking about,

>> the screen ones.

>> Yeah. So, I just went and did a demo at

Best Buy for them and and I and I tried

them out. They're a little glitchy and

laggy. Uh which is a little frustrating,

but I ended up ordering them and then I

cancelled the order.

>> Mhm. And I feel like the reason I

cancelled the order was not because I

don't like that I could have the inside

display, but it's actually just that

that I don't want the display.

>> Because if we're hanging out like at the

water park, which is not the best place

to take the metal glasses we found.

>> Yeah.

>> Uh or we're building the greenhouse and

we're doing a video of us drilling

stuff. Do we really want text messages

popping up? Mom, Max needs you.

I don't I I don't know. I don't want

that. You

>> I don't know.

>> And you got the watch now, too?

>> Yeah.

>> So, how'd you get the watch?

>> I paid you.

>> I like Wasn't it like the value of like

something?

>> The trade in value?

>> Yeah.

>> Yeah. How do you like it?

>> That's good. I like that it has more

space and stuff like that.

>> The The Ultra is great. It's got a whole

lot more room. And you have the Ultra

the ring on the outside on your modular,

right?

>> Yeah. And

>> what do you use it for? Seconds.

>> Yeah.

>> Seconds. and the and the action button.

>> Yeah.

>> I like your wristband. Can you show it

off to everyone?

>> So, it's like it's like confetti and

it's like blue.

>> Was it just an Amazon one?

>> Yeah, it it's it like the ones for um

the ones on like apple.com are like $50

and I got this one for $10.

>> Let's go.

Awesome. You going to help me out at

Lowe's later?

>> Yeah.

>> All right. Sweet.

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.