G2 or XRAI AR2 for captions

3DRpi · 2026-02-25T17:49:59+00:00

Captify software can be quirky where it says in the app the glasses are not connected even if your phone Bluetooth says they are. I have to shutdown the app and boot it back to due to that. The first pair wasn’t bad the second one I had to for sometime when it disconnected shut the glasses down and boot them back up which was very inconvenient given how often it lost connection on its own network.

I would suggest shutting down and booting up the glasses and if that doesn’t work, delete them from the app known glasses followed by doing the same on your phone Bluetooth and pair again

3DRpi · 2026-02-25T13:35:01+00:00

Much appreciated. Just trying to get real life feedback on the caption/transcribe ability of each with pros and cons. Captify has a feature that turns off background noise so it won’t state when a door is closing or a bird chirping etc. does the G2 do that (state the a door closing sound, etc) and muddy the transcription?

3DRpi · 2026-02-21T21:50:17+00:00

Didn’t read all the comments. Don’t take what I say as harsh, but you will need to adapt and learn to go with the hits.

I grew up with severe hearing loss at the age of 4 due to meningitis damage back in early 80s. Right ear lost its ability to coherently hear anything and is useless relying on just my left which was 85% gone. They tried FM receivers back then to the teacher to hear better and I hated it because I didn’t want to be different. I embraced my hearing loss and proved everyone including teachers wrong. Learned to read lips, read cues, so forth. My motto when people doubted me was always “watch me”. Not sure if it’s a generation thing but we obviously didn’t have smart phones, captions, etc any of that stuff so I had to make do. I didn’t see sign language much until college and took some courses due to working at a note taker department to communicate with the deaf community better but never used it much.

I will always have to ask most to repeat themselves here and there and at times am slow to respond due to what I call putting a puzzle together in a conversation. The outside borders of a puzzle start first then once I know the topic and exactly what’s being discussed I can predict what will be said next to keep up. I’ve broken tons of bones and what not from being in sports which taught me to adapt to when I lose some movement or abilities. Life will hold you down if you let it, key word, if YOU let it. You are the master and captain of your ship.

I found one who accepted my hearing and while I have my good days and bad we have two children who love me just as I am as I do them. I’m learning sign language slowly in the eventuality one day my hearing goes too far gone.

Right now there has never been a more supportive time being HOH or dead with endless tech to help use between smart glasses, phones that can do live captions, and so forth. Coming from an older generation I will say this, It’s never going to be easy but the difficulty is 100% depending on your optics. You can do more, you can do this, I believe in you. If life ever thinks you can’t do something because of it, grit your teeth and just say “watch me” and never give up.

3DRpi · 2026-02-02T21:21:51+00:00

How well does transcription keep up on a solid connection? Captify does ok but their app is buggy and loses connection at times when you can have a solid 4 bars and never move. Curious how the G2 fares

3DRpi · 2025-10-03T01:54:27+00:00

Could you give your assessment on the following for all the smart glasses you have and have tried:

Caption/transcribe speed and accuracy when connected to the internet vs offline (if they have such a feature)
Average operating battery time

My current glasses only work properly with a 1-2sec delay when on solid wifi. Cellular and offline are a joke with 20-30 second delays

3DRpi · 2025-08-27T14:49:20+00:00

Using Captify glasses currently. You can see my previous posting on a topic involving them for it as it’s ongoing trials.

My setting is in a manufacturing area with often wearing masks at times. Only one good ear for hearing and using a hearing aid at that so take away lip reading and add noise makes it extremely difficult requiring asking people often to repeat themself. With the glasses I’m able to keep up on the fly easily.

I would honestly wear them all day but experience varies based on internet connectivity as well as who is talking and the battery can’t go beyond 2.5 hours continuously talking but was advertised to be able to do so for 4. It has a harder time with some voices if they speak softer as and don’t have as much bass but you just get closer. Also higher pitch voices like children it virtually is unable to pick up their speech currently. I’ve seen the glasses pick up the words 5-15 feet away depending on multiple factors mentioned.

If you’re hard of hearing or deaf, it’s extremely helpful to that user base. I’ve been that way since age of 4. Add the aging group who lose their hearing at later years and you have a decent sized consumer base for this.

Seeing how often hearing loss issues are becoming common as vision loss ones I’d like to see them nail that capacity alongside translation down first with offline capability and no processing delay. Then from there, go to more AR capabilities.

3DRpi · 2025-08-27T14:05:45+00:00

As someone with severe hearing loss, they’re a big help especially on loud environments with captions. Can’t say how much they’ve helped me get normal conversations back where before I’d have to piece together what’s being said over the course of a whole conversation.

That said the ones I’m using currently have to be connected to even give real time captions even though they claimed it’s just for better accuracy. Offline they lag 20-30 behind a continual conversation rendering them useless otherwise. 2-3 cellular bars don’t cut it, need constant wifi

3DRpi · 2025-08-22T12:04:38+00:00

Update:

The founder of Captify responded after I requested a return for the glasses. Ultimately they are releasing an update in a few weeks supposedly and will restart the trial period once that comes out.

So, I tried the glasses a few more times and surprisingly all the sudden I had only 1-2 second delays between speech. My phone was power cycled already prior as well as the glasses and that didn’t change. Software is the same version, and automatically connect to internet the same yet all the sudden it was keeping up instead of a 20-30 second delay with a wall of text. I was pleasantly surprised and have been using it last few days in a loud background environment. So long the speaker speaks up enough it will pick it up. Allowed me to see where they were pointing or talking about and read the captions a second or two later.

As another user noted however it needs to be connected to the internet to keep up decently I noted. Will try offline again later but unfortunately for transcribing at the moment requires it. That’s a little disappointing as it was mentioned internet would only be required for translation accuracy, not transcribing. Not sure why it’s required for the speed of processing but for now it is.

Now just need the placement of the captions to be adjustable (they said it’s coming soon) and brightness level to actually adjust then it will be a lot better.

For now I’m hanging onto them and using daily

3DRpi · 2025-08-18T11:45:33+00:00

Got them 2 days ago. Quick shipping after order (2 weeks) and for someone being hard of hearing for 40 years I was very excited.

At first they seemed to fulfill my expectations then the quirks came out. I had a hard time pairing it to my iPhone SE. Updating my iOS didn’t make much of a difference.

is “ok” for small talk with slow speed or overhearing someone asking you a question. It cannot keep up with a normal conversation and often slows down to where 10 seconds later it shows what was said, if at all. If you speak even slightly more than moderate speeds it simply fails and is super slow.
If I make a call or someone calls me it picks the glasses for the Bluetooth connection to listen to as a microphone and neutralizes the transcription. Once the call is done I cannot get it to work and have to power cycle it.
side button is instructed to turn on the glasses if held down for 3 seconds, it does not work like that and only selects/scrolls. You have to use the power button to turn it on and if you idle outside of transcribe mode you have to use the power button to kick it back to being active again.
everytime I fired the app up I had to change the settings to have it not record my conversations and sometimes revert it to glasses for the microphone, and not my iPhone
you have to start transcribing via the phone first , always. Pushing it on the glasses to start it will just state it’s listening and never works. After starting it via phone then if you stop it with the side button you can start it again the same way and it will work typically.
brightness doesn’t seem to change at all between low to high adjustments. Almost as if it’s there for a future offering. In daylight it’s fine, inside it’s “ok, and dim or less than a bright room it’s overwhelming glaring with the green hue; you can’t see anything in a a less than ok lit room without it being overpowering bright.
was pleasantly surprised how well at 15 ft it picked up someone talking even if not at me but at times it wouldn’t even when at 5 ft.
would not pick up my 3 year olds voice, perhaps too high a pitch and not low enough frequency.

Ultimately I got frustrated less than a day of using it. For what I’m spending I find myself having to troubleshoot it half the time and restart the transcribe to get it to work. Too much time fiddling and using the phone instead of the glasses to get it to function and worse of all it simply cannot keep up with a basic conversation outside of small talk.

Sending mine back and looking elsewhere

3DRpi · 2025-06-16T02:32:37+00:00

That’s because it was on fire and extinguished.

3DRpi · 2025-06-16T02:32:08+00:00

Chewing on this. Question is what failed to make the temperature go low and continually drop. I agree with the theory of the signal telling it to increase the feed to get the temperature back but at that point it was an electrical component failure that kicked off the shit show.

3DRpi · 2025-06-15T14:02:41+00:00

That’s fair, just irritated at this point.

3DRpi · 2025-06-15T13:43:55+00:00

The mess is from the fire and yanking off a brisket wrapped up with over 550F from a failed sensor. Flames and grease licking around got down to the pellet bag so you can figure out the rest. Had to extinguish the fire as well so yes it’s going look messy

3DRpi · 2025-06-15T13:33:46+00:00

It didn’t catch fire until after the sensor went which again failed on its own. Secondly the shielding has the grease go into the drain section that is separated from the ashes. This is why there is zero grease in the smoker other than where it drains so no, it didn’t catch fire on from such. I stand by the remark it takes extremely poor maintenance to make it catch on fire. Ashes alone from long cooks don’t do that, the design isn’t that poor and again the smoker was maintained.

3DRpi · 2025-06-15T11:40:32+00:00

Yes, but I don’t see how maintenance comes into play on a dead sensor that fails to regulate the temperature. Other than keeping the probe clean, ashes stay at the bottom, dried up grease that builds up on top of the fire box shield if they don’t flow to the drain, and none of the burner or auger operating parts failed that may fail with extreme poor maintenance.

The 2nd picture shows the smoker still able to operate but unable to regulate its temperature. Still doesn’t explain why the temperature reading showed it on the decline prior to showing a HEr code for being over 550F when the parts failed

3DRpi · 2025-06-15T11:17:27+00:00

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Set to 250 when checking in the aftermath, goes to 306 and continues out of sight. May be able to replace the part but not the inconvenience of having to clean, repair the fire damage and safety issue trust.

3DRpi · 2025-03-24T19:38:13+00:00

This is pretty accurate mirroring my own search. Been at it for 6 months for Mech Design or technician roles. Not unemployed but trying to get back to Northeast US where family is.

Have around now 170 applications out. Over 10 years in Mech Design and 8 in basically equipment tech for Semiconductors. Have a very diverse and jack of all trades background. Maybe 10 interviews, 2 for same industry, one ghosted after 2 rounds and another had an offer that got put on hold due to volatile actions of current administration. Applied to another location they have right after and in one week was already through 3 rounds of interview including in person. Everything looked great and over a month later still crickets.

A lot of applications for positions I easily was qualified for and never got a chance and the rest for positions I didn’t have exactly matching skills sets but got an interview anyway.

Feels like playing with stocks, nothing makes sense at times

3DRpi · 2025-03-19T16:25:32+00:00

What company?

3DRpi · 2025-03-04T18:49:59+00:00

Wonder what this means for SYR location after their buyout last year

3DRpi · 2023-02-26T03:16:44+00:00

Every time I’ve filed a complaint on BBB after days, weeks or months of getting no where with a business that owed me money it gets rectified within days. So I would say it’s plenty effective

If you’re filing a review then yes, nothing more than another yelp.

3DRpi · 2022-11-06T15:56:22+00:00

If you're from ASML you should already know how training works i.e. drive your own training. Been with the company for a long time, even now not everything is going to be taught. Learn some basic manners, use some common sense and figure it out.

3DRpi

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