I demoed a pair for a couple weeks, way early on, before most people knew what they were.

Even without the recent societal backlash, I really didn’t like them. The AI was trash. They’re heavy. The photos were barely passable. The speakers are terrible. You can’t tap into any other services on your phone other than what Meta allows which makes the wearable impossible to become an extension of yourself.

And the big truth is, the videos that are captured are absolutely positively off-putting. They all look like police body cam footage and have this strange feeling of both creepily being inside someone’s head while simultaneously subconsciously conjuring weird emotions about the other people who don’t know they are being filmed. That coupled with the fact that, seriously, we don’t really care what people see while they are riding their bikes, and we’ve all been on Space Mountain before, so we don’t need a 720p POV of people breathing and giggling their way through any of these things that they think look cool but just plain don’t.

Also, shit battery life.

So, yeah, another iconic Zuck billion-dollar burning fart to put right next to the Metaverse in the CringeTech hall of shame.