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I have been with the Oakley Metas almost two weeks and the experience has been … complex. It is not that they are bad smart glasses – in fact, they are technically superior to the Ray-Ban Meta In several aspects – but There is something in your proposal that does not finish curdling. It is as if they had wanted to cover too much and, in the process, they lost their identity. I started with illusion. I used some Oakley to run for a couple of years, so when they announced these smart glasses I thought they would be perfect for me. The reality is more nuanced. Technical tab of the Oakley Meta Oakley Meta HSTN dimensions and weight 145 x 51 x 22 mm 53 grams (mount) / 133 grams (case) Image capture 3024 x 4032 pixels 12 MP, Ultra wide angle, 100 ° of FOV Video capture 1440 × 1920 pixels or 2203 × 2938 pixels at 30 fps audio system 2x microaltavoces 5x Microphones Voice assistant Goal AI Controls Tactile By voice memory 32 GB Flash (+1,000 or +100 photos of 30 seconds) battery Up to eight hours with an intermittent load and use Up to 48 hours accumulating loads with the completely loaded case connectivity WIFI 6E Bluetooth 5.3 USB-C of load (case) compatibility iOS 15.2 or Android 10 onwards price 549 euros The full name, by the way, is ‘Oakley Meta HSTN’. They are not the wayfarer The Meta Ray-Ban had the enormous success of incorporating electronics into iconic design glasses. Wayfarer are wayfarer, carry or not camera. AND They convinced me from the first minute with them. The Oakley Meta, on the other hand, seem to have stayed in no one’s land: They are not sports enough to run comfortably. But they also have the necessary elegance for urban day to day. The design is peculiar. Neither masculine nor specifically feminine, with those pronounced angles near the nasal bridge and that white frame that shouts “look at me”. It is curious how a product that should go unnoticed exactly the opposite. I have taken them down the street, running, on the beach, and They always attract the occasional look. Not of the type “What chulat glasses”, but rather of “What are you wearing in the face?” People suspect something happens. Which takes me to the next point. The problem of white and the obvious camera The white color (although they are officially “warm gray”) is not a great success. It makes the camera much more obvious (a black gap next to each lens) and not only when the LED lights to indicate that you are recording. With a white mount is too much evidence of the camera, and can intimidate who we have in front. Image: Xataka. The black-target ray-ban camouflage this element better; They only betray their technological nature when that white point turns on. With the Oakley Meta, People already suspect before you do anything. This takes me to an anecdote that marked me. He was on a Valencian beach, sitting with the glasses on, when just in front of a mother began to change – disnain – to her little daughter, who would not be more than six years old. I felt very uncomfortable and took off my glasses immediately, but during those seconds I thought about how delicate the situation could be. If someone had seen that he wore those glasses with camera in front of the girl, even if he was not recording anything, a very serious problem could have been mounted. This has nothing to do with Oakley, but with smart glasses. As a society we will have to reach certain agreements on this type of product. It is different to carrying a mobile: With the phone, the act of recording is evident: you raise it, you point it, it is deliberate. With these glasses, just looking, you are already “pointing”, even if you have no intention of capturing anything. Social challenges that we are going to have to solve in some way with this technology. We have already seen some thorny case Even in Spain. The sports experience that was not I have run with them on several occasions: from 6 kilometers short exits to a long 21 -kilometer training through a series on an abandoned athletics. The idea of having a two in one – sun gaps and bone driving headphones – is brilliant on paper. It is the combo that I use separately. The idea of combining them in a single product sounded great. This is what I usually use to run: Oakley analog + bone driving headphones. The Oakley Meta integrate both, but they have not convinced me. Image: Xataka. In practice, they did not convince me. The additional weight is noted. It is not dramatic, but after a few kilometers you start feeling small shakes with each stride that you do not experience with normal Oakley. The audio is good enough And I have no complaints about him. It is better in static than in motion, but it is somewhat lower. Running slowly there are no problems, but when the speed uploads, the Oakley Meta tends to slide forward and give small shakes on the nasal septum. Or at least that has been my experience. GIF: Xataka. Besides, Sweat, rain and splashes resist with its IPX4 certification. They cannot immerse themselves and invite you to take care, but at least we can sweat with them. In any case, it is as if they had tried to make sports glasses without fully committed to that audience. Therefore, once again, the land of anyone and the loss of identity: they want to be several things at the same time so they stop being really good in something more concrete. 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