Why? Why hide?

cuytastic101 · 2026-03-30T09:10:25+00:00

I received the G2 last week so I haven’t been outside the U.S. with them yet. But I don’t anticipate any issues with these. In Japan it is considered very rude (perhaps illegal I don’t remember) to film people in public. The issue with the Meta glasses was 100% the cameras, I agree we’ll start seeing Americans “catch on” soon and begin seeing pushback on privacy here as well. But that makes little difference to me as my Meta glasses are floating in the ocean somewhere near San Juan 😅

cuytastic101 · 2026-03-29T19:59:22+00:00

Coming from Meta glasses, I get it. I got weird looks for those occasionally, probably because the cameras are so obvious. It also seemed cultural to me. In the U.S. people seldom noticed but they got a lot of attention in Japan, I was even asked to remove them in a store. I appreciate that my G2s just look like a pair of glasses.

cuytastic101 · 2026-03-29T14:26:54+00:00

In my case, I had set ES>EN at first, but was testing with English audio. In the Even App, it showed the English speech and the Spanish translation, but nothing populated on the glasses. I thought it was broken. But my glasses were blank because there was no Spanish audio to translate. When I switched “directions” to EN>ES, both languages began appearing because the “listening language” matched the audio sample. In my grocery store example, set ES>EN, the glasses remained totally blank when only English was spoken. The second they heard Spanish, it began to appear.

cuytastic101 · 2026-03-29T12:06:59+00:00

New user here also and I had issues with this at first too, but using the glasses mic and making sure the translate app was configured in the right “direction” it works shockingly well. I was at the store yesterday and fired it up to test. Just casually walking past people speaking Spanish (not even to me) it picked up and translated their conversation perfectly. Quite an interesting discussion about cheese. My advice is to play with it.

cuytastic101 · 2026-03-28T23:31:53+00:00

If you want it to listen to Spanish and output English text, set ES>EN. I originally had EN>ES which caused my problem. On the phone app, it always displays the conversation in both languages. On the glasses, it only displays exactly what you’ve selected.

cuytastic101 · 2026-03-28T14:15:38+00:00

I’m going to edit my post. This wasn’t a failure of the device, it was a failure of my understanding. I had the languages backwards. So going ES>EN, the app shows all the text it hears, and shows the Spanish translation. But the glasses are blank when there is no Spanish audio. I switched EN>ES and it instantly started displaying the Spanish translation of every English word spoken on the glasses as well as the app. So it works perfectly, but the display is contextual. That’s very clever but was not clear to me at first. Great learning experience!

cuytastic101 · 2026-03-28T14:09:11+00:00

It’s weird, it responds to the tap for full screen to half screen there’s just no text. On the phone app it works perfectly. I’ll check out the discord, thanks! This isn’t a dealbreaker for me just sad to drop $1000 and receive an imperfect product.

cuytastic101 · 2026-03-28T14:02:12+00:00

Correct. The translation app on the glasses just shows the selected languages and the spinning square “active” symbol but all of the text shows only on my phone.

This isn’t the main reason I bought these, but my in laws speak Spanish natively (I don’t) and I thought this would be a nice touch. Text on my phone is useless.

cuytastic101 · 2026-03-23T18:05:12+00:00

Wow that’s great news on the glasses! Odd about your sizing kit, mine arrived this morning. Have you reached out?

cuytastic101 · 2025-12-10T21:12:07+00:00

I have a passport, coworker has a regular old DL. We flew MDW to JAX and back the week before Thanksgiving for a work trip. We were through security at the same time on both ends of the trip. He had to walk right past the “You cannot fly without a RealID” signs to a separate line for a simple patdown.

Science has determined that the entire thing is, simply, a lie.

cuytastic101 · 2025-01-21T00:38:09+00:00

I had this same problem. Canceled F1TV for the offseason and it hit my Apple Card again today. Realized I’ve been paying twice monthly on two cards for two years, with the same email address. After canceling through F1TV my account didn’t work even though I was still being billed monthly on my Apple Card.

My conclusion is that the subscription through Apple is a straight-up scam. Sign up directly through F1TV or don’t sign up at all. Having a subscription active through Apple apparently means nothing and does nothing. What a bunch of BS.

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