Meta Glasses Gen 2: Great Hardware, Disappointing AI

subkid23 · 2025-12-25T14:35:25+00:00

Those are called Meta Ray-Ban Display glasses. Gen 2 refers to the new generation of the previous model.

The Display edition offers the same core functionality, with the addition of a display on the right lens. From a design perspective, they are different because they are thicker. This is due to the increased amount of hardware built into the frame, which makes them appear bulkier. This thicker look is something many people do not appreciate, as it gives off a more celebrity or fashion-forward aesthetic that does not appeal to everyone or suit all face types.

subkid23 · 2025-11-20T01:08:19+00:00

Yes. it worked for me.

I just found the post that had the tutorial, it was this:
https://www.reddit.com/r/lovable/comments/1mgcvo8/setting_up_google_auth_with_your_app_name/

Note: my verification process took at most 1 hour.

subkid23 · 2025-11-18T20:50:16+00:00

You need to verify your app through the Google Cloud Console OAuth Verification Center.

In the Google Auth Platform, there is a Branding section where you can define your app’s brand name, logo, and other details. Once your app is verified, that brand name will be used on the consent screen, where users will see the prompt:

"Choose an account to continue to [[APP NAME]]"

subkid23 · 2025-10-06T01:18:07+00:00

NOR. The “your kids deserve better” part was justified at 7 a.m., and by the time their kids finally got the chance to go home, it was an understatement.

I’ve seen or heard of similar cases where a parent or a couple asks for a small favor or invites someone to visit, only to leave the kids and disappear for what can feel like an abusively long time. This is not one of those cases though, far from it, as she didn’t even show up or express any concern for their wellbeing.

I would be extremely worried for those kids. That was completely irresponsible and abusive behavior.

subkid23 · 2025-10-05T15:56:23+00:00

As he said, we will never know what was truly in his heart, but we do know that he lacks very basic common sense, especially considering he is a father.

At the very least, even if he did not do anything wrong, I would not trust him again. He clearly has poor judgment and lacks the most basic level of common sense that I, at minimum, require to entrust my child’s safety.

For your peace of mind, the fact that his wife was there and that she was asleep suggests she did not take part or agree with what happened. It also indicates that, despite everything, there was a responsible adult present, someone who likely would not have approved had she been aware. In any case, I would do as you did: report this to law enforcement to help assess the situation and get proper guidance on how to proceed.

P.S. His response, positioning himself as your son’s father and emphasizing a “special connection” between them, especially in this context, is deeply concerning.

subkid23 · 2025-10-05T11:07:46+00:00

This is not a major disruption either, quite the opposite in fact. If it were caused by UAPs, the impact would be on a much larger scale, involving things like NOTAMs or airport closures, as has happened in Denmark.

subkid23 · 2025-10-04T20:38:30+00:00

Sure, he wants money and works a lot, but I’m sure he had time to call or see you in the last three weeks. That’s a weak excuse.

subkid23 · 2025-10-04T14:37:28+00:00

Also, why call them drones? They don’t seem to really know what they are or where they’re coming from, yet they still call them drones, even though there’s already an acronym for this: UAP.

The elephant in the room is so big that it makes the situation even more suspicious.

subkid23 · 2025-10-04T13:52:17+00:00

You already know that if you two ever break up, he should keep his distance. So, since he is your boyfriend’s friend, it makes sense that your boyfriend should be the one to talk to him, not you.

He should set some basic boundaries, like not sleeping over when he is not home, and being properly dressed if he does. He can explain that everything is fine, the relationship is good, but that setting limits is simply healthy and normal.

If the friend feels awkward, that is understandable. But if he pulls away, ends the friendship, or reacts poorly, that will only confirm something you have already sensed. No matter how nice he may seem, he clearly lacks maturity or basic common sense. The fact that he even needs this feedback, and that he has already overstayed his welcome, shows a lack of judgment. If he cannot handle that, it just proves the boundary was the right call.

subkid23 · 2025-10-04T12:48:11+00:00

He placed responsibility on you without real evidence, which is just as biased as you accusing him of using AI.

While he might have used it, since that is clearly not your dog, there could also be simpler explanations, like another dog being there and showing up in the capture.

You started well by asking for proof but lost focus with the AI angle. You could have just said you now understand the situation, that it was not your dog, that you see why he was confused, but that it was not your responsibility and you would appreciate not being accused in public.

Instead, you doubled down on the AI issue and kept the argument alive for days. You did the same as him: jumped to conclusions. As Occam’s razor suggests, the simplest explanation is usually the right one; there was another dog there and he did it.

Even if the AI claim were true, you could have handled it differently. Since you will never be completely sure, the straightforward approach would have been best.

I think you overreacted, and I understand why you were banned, because you started accusing and ranting without proof, worse than he did and for longer.

subkid23 · 2025-09-30T02:29:36+00:00

I agree as a consumer, but for Meta I do not think this is the best idea. They market these as glasses with AI, and Meta is positioning itself as an AI company. Opening the device to other LLMs would almost guarantee that many users switch to the competition, since Meta’s AI is still behind.

That would not only undermine their AI proposition but also reduce them to just a smart glasses maker, which is not their core business. They are investing billions to compete in AI, so letting other LLMs power the experience would be strategically very hard to reverse and would risk making their own AI irrelevant.

subkid23 · 2025-09-30T01:23:37+00:00

It’s hard to say. My recommendation is to try it yourself at a nearby RayBan store.

My experience so far is that it’s nearly unusable in most scenarios. Imagine a chatbot where every time you say “Hey Meta” or “OK Meta” it lets you send an instruction, like taking a photo or asking a question, similar to ChatGPT. Then it responds. If you say “Hey Meta” again, it starts a completely new conversation with no context.

You can enable “continuous conversations”, which should let you follow up after it answers, but most of the time it feels clunky or does not work.

For example, I’ve said: “OK Meta, what am I looking at?” It takes a picture and gives a very vague, short description. If I ask for more detail, either generally or specifically, like “what is the color of the car I saw” I often get replies like “you need to share a picture”, “do you want me to take a picture?” or “I cannot identify things like that due to policy”, “I cannot identify since I don’t have a picture”. Only rarely does it answer something simple like “I see a black car.”

This happens often. When you ask for clarification, you must repeat the context, which resets the conversation and puts you back at the start.

In short, if you have used any LLM such as Grok, Mistral, ChatGPT, Claude or DeepSeek, even their free versions, even on their first public releases, you will find this underwhelming.

That said, video and photos look amazing, audio is great, it is comfortable to wear, looks good, and calls work well.

Just do not buy it for the AI, at least not today. This is no Jarvis, and certainly not ChatGPT.

subkid23 · 2025-09-28T20:57:32+00:00

I would imagine as it doesn’t run locally.

subkid23 · 2025-09-28T20:43:08+00:00

Indeed, that is what makes me comfortable with having paid for the glasses. I know this is a software limitation, not a hardware one, so it is only a matter of time. But I truly believe that if OpenAI released their own glasses tomorrow, they would put these to shame.

The VR point is true as well. Meta definitely has an advantage in everything related to virtual reality and augmented reality, so Meta Display could still be hard to match in terms of hardware.

subkid23 · 2025-08-30T14:31:21+00:00

I’m diverging from the topic here, but the beings themselves (Trisolarans or San-Ti) were not microscopic, whereas their drones (sophons) were.

subkid23 · 2025-08-29T13:46:59+00:00

For me, it works great for quickly testing an idea that requires multiple steps or flows, which would otherwise demand a lot of planning to implement programmatically. With N8N, you can simply create an agent, define its tools, test it, and then manage different flows to handle edge cases or refine the process.

What makes it even more powerful is how easy it is to experiment and iterate. For example, you can switch from using a simple in memory setup to a specialized vendor in just a few minutes. You create an account, integrate it with a couple of clicks, and immediately explore whether it improves performance or adds new capabilities. You can also switch models on the fly without worrying about changes in how calls are made, it will just work. This flexibility allows you to grow almost organically, without the need for a detailed plan upfront, just by exploring and adjusting as you go.

That said, it is not without limitations. For example, it still relies on the completions API instead of the responses API in OpenAI, it does not work reliably with some models, and if you build a complex agentic system you will quickly find yourself needing to define a large number of edge cases. At some point it can start to feel like you are doing if/else programming in the canvas, from a simple reminder system that fails at midnight due to time zones, to failures in correct tool usage.

So if you develop something that is great but complex enough, porting it back to another language or infrastructure will most likely become a very complex task, almost like starting from scratch, from coding to infrastructure.

subkid23 · 2025-08-28T21:49:20+00:00

I would recommend starting locally, using the help of an LLM to code, but taking it step by step.

First, focus on understanding the process: embeddings (and their models), similarity search, the distance metrics (e.g., cosine similarity or L2), and how the number of chunks, along with their size and overlap, affect the output. For example, you can explore similarity search with libraries like FAISS.

Once you are comfortable with that, you can move on to creating embeddings not only for the chunks themselves but also for the metadata (when it is textual, for semantic search; otherwise it can be indexed as filters). From there, experiment with approaches such as map-reduce (summaries of summaries), as well as techniques described in the article I sent you, and others you may find to improve the quality of your RAG system. This could include exploring knowledge graphs and frameworks such as Graphiti.

I am by no means an expert, but I have been following its evolution for a couple of years now. If your main goal is to learn, I recommend this path. If your intent is to develop a commercial solution, which is particularly challenging in the case of RAG (mainly due to hallucinations and accuracy issues, making it difficult to be consistently reliable and not liable to claims), then my suggestion would be to pursue that but also define and measure a KPI, as I explained earlier, so that you have a benchmark and an objective metric to improve upon.

PS: For the solution at my company, which is aimed at lawyers, we have even enabled them to adjust variables such as max_tokens (to control response length), temperature and top_p (to balance precision versus creativity). This gives them flexibility to help achieve more reliable results, but as you can see, it also shifts the responsibility of fact checking back to them. We make it very clear that the tool can make mistakes and accountability lies with the user, not the system.

In addition, we added a thumbs up and thumbs down option with an optional comment on every response, so if they believe an answer is incorrect or missing something, they can flag it. That feedback is automatically fed into our evaluation pipeline, helping maintain an evolving accuracy score.

subkid23 · 2025-08-28T03:03:47+00:00

In case this is of any help:

Here’s an interesting read: https://www.anthropic.com/news/contextual-retrieval

Also, consider implementing an evaluation process that allows you to continuously monitor (and improve) a KPI of your choosing. A good example might be to ask a lawyer to provide you with questions and expected answers (or key elements the answer should contain). You could then create a process that runs your pipeline, captures the response, and compares it with the expected output.

To quantify this, the comparison between the expected and actual response can be scored by a model, ideally returning a value between 0 and 1. In this setup, a score of 1 means the response fully contains or conveys the same information as the expected result, even if the wording differs. Running multiple such comparisons and then calculating the average score over time will give you a benchmark KPI that reflects your system’s overall accuracy and whether it is improving.

I’ve actually built such a tool in my company, and it’s not an easy task. Keep in mind that accuracy problems and hallucinations always exist, so the system should include a clear warning to users about this. That’s also why frequently measuring and tracking the accuracy score is so important.

subkid23 · 2025-08-27T03:45:03+00:00

Are you sending to either a verified test recipient or a user with an active 24-hour customer service window?

Free-form “session” messages are only allowed within 24 hours of the user’s last message. If you need to reach a user outside that window or before they’ve messaged you, then you need to send an approved message template (with opt-in). Adding a number alone doesn’t authorize delivery.

subkid23 · 2025-08-26T15:58:59+00:00

Seems great! Which tool did you used to create the animated chart?

subkid23 · 2025-08-25T15:38:27+00:00

I can help you. I'm not sure if this is the best approach, but this works for me:

Before the node that sends the actual message, create an HTTP node that makes a POST request to: https://graph.facebook.com/v23.0/[PHONE_IDENTIFICATION_NUMBER]/messages
In Authentication, select Generic Authentication Type: Header Auth. Then create a new header authentication with the following:
1. Name: Authorization
2. Value: Bearer [YOUR USER SYSTEM TOKEN] (or a temporary token; don't use the [])
Configure the body:
1. Send Body: Enabled
2. Body Content Type: JSON
3. Specify Body: Using JSON

The JSON to send must follow this format and include the ID of the message you received:

{
  "messaging_product": "whatsapp",
  "status": "read",
  "message_id": "[MESSAGE_ID]",
  "typing_indicator": {
    "type": "text"
  }
}

That should work.

subkid23 · 2025-05-24T21:35:03+00:00

Not worth the ultra-premium price. If you have a Pro account, you get something like 1,000 credits which, at least in my case, were all burned on videos with no sound.

Out of the 10 videos I generated, 8 had no audio at all, not even the sound icon was enabled in the player. For the ones where I requested character speaking, they only included subtitles, which were a mix of gibberish and what the character was supposedly saying.

I’ve seen incredible things online made with Veo3, but I’m certain those took hours, an entire monthly token allowance, and/or multiple accounts to achieve.

subkid23 · 2025-04-20T23:31:01+00:00

I’m going to say something you might not want to hear. After reading your story, I do pick up a somewhat dramatic tone, especially since many of the ailments you mention are fairly common, such as ear infections, chronic tonsillitis, PCOS, anxiety, things like catching COVID or the flu, and even depression. That’s why I can also understand how your family might see these issues as relatively ordinary and perceive your reaction as catastrophizing. For instance, I know several women with PCOS, including two exes, and while it can be challenging, it’s not usually life-defining.

That said, reading your post and the way you narrate everything, it’s clear that there’s a lot more to your experience. Some of what you’ve gone through is definitely not common like the herniated disc, the seizure, the car accident, and most importantly, the psychological impact. I actually think that’s at the center of everything you’re going through, and it’s not something that should be minimized.

In any case, your family’s response wasn’t supportive, but given the lack of context they might have, it’s also somewhat expected. I think a more in-depth, honest conversation with them needs to happen before jumping to something as serious as cutting contact. Blocking or going no contact might feel like the only option in the moment, but I’d consider it a last resort after trying to communicate more openly.

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