Vision Pro vs. Meta Glasses: Which Captures Your Memories Best?
In the world of immersive memories, two cutting-edge products are vying for your attention: Apple’s Vision Pro and Meta Rayband Glasses. Both devices offer a unique way to capture and relive your memories, but they cater to different needs and preferences.
The Apple Vision Pro is a high-tech VR headset that allows you to record and play back 3D videos in a larger-than-life format. While the quality of the videos is impressive, the headset’s bulkiness and the need to hold your phone in landscape mode can be cumbersome. On the other hand, Meta Rayband Glasses look like regular glasses but come equipped with speakers, microphones, and a camera. They allow you to quickly capture and share vertical videos without the distraction of pulling out your phone.
While the Vision Pro offers a more immersive experience, the Meta Glasses provide a more laid-back and convenient way to document your life. Depending on your preferences, budget, and lifestyle, you may find yourself drawn to one device over the other, or perhaps even considering both for different occasions.
Ultimately, the future of capturing memories may involve a fusion of both forms, catering to various needs and preferences. Whichever device you choose, the important thing is to document and relive your precious moments in a way that resonates with you.
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Our memories have never been more interesting to tech companies we’re in a whole new period here there are a couple of products that even capitalize on that one of them I’m wearing on my face these are meta Rayband glasses there’s also a product I’ve looked at a lot the Apple
Vision Pro both of these talk about reliving your memories and recording your memories but they’re really different products and different prices I mean this is 300 something this is $3500 which one do you get if you want to capture and relive your memories well maybe one or the other but also why not
Both let me talk to you about what they do and why the future of immersive memories might involve the fusion of both forms so we’ve talked about Apple Vision Pro a lot in case you haven’t been following let me catch you up Apple’s headset which is a like a mixed
Reality VR computer uh has the ability to play back 3D videos that you can record on your iPhone 15 Pro or on this device itself if you’re brave enough I don’t want to record my kids birthday party in the headset I’m going to be using a phone for that but both of them
Record video and play it back in a larger fuzzy screen border that feels more immersive than playing it back on your phone and even more immersive than 3D videos I played before it’s not fully wraparound but it does feel like I’m suddenly looking through a window into
The moment and I’ve been recording a ton of of videos on Apple Vision Pro in that spatial video format on my phone taking it on vacation where I was recording a lot of things at Disney bringing out my phone is not my favorite thing to do and
On Apple’s format you have to hold your phone in landscape mode a lot of people want to shoot photos and videos quickly in vertical can’t do that so you really have to kind of frame it up and then you’re walking around like this if you put up with that playing it back later
Those memories are pretty fantastic but I like the idea of something a little more innocuous a phone’s pretty innocuous a headset really isn’t but what meta is doing with its glasses that’s a lot more innocuous meta’s Rayband glasses which came out last year are on my face right now you probably
Don’t even notice them they’re Rayband WF farers they look really normal and they even have my prescription so outfitted with that they are my everyday glasses which is pretty fantastic and I like the way they look nobody really points out that they look like smart glasses what they do is they’ve got
Speakers they’ve got microphones and got a camera so basically camera equipped uh headphone glasses is what you call them nothing like a VR headset because there’s no display but what you can do is record quick clips to sink over to your phone and be able to relive his
Little wearable memories of course we’ve already got something in our pocket that does memories it’s our phone why would you need a pair of glasses well what I found is when I went on vacation at Disney it was actually really fantastic to have because when I was going on
Rides or hang out with friends I didn’t feel like I was pulling out this phone and letting it get in the way I would just say hey meta take a photo or I would use this little shutter button or I would record a bit like this and it
Would start recording only a minute at a time for the video but you get these vertical videos that look surprisingly good and you can share them the video quality doesn’t look as good as my phone but I use it on things like Tron light cycle run and it was fantastic and it
Was great to actually wear it on the ride when I certainly would not be taking out my phone the one thing though is that the battery life is really short it’s about a couple of hours at Best and I found that when I was using them to
Take photos and video I had to recharge by about noon and then I had to recharge again in late afternoon which means that if I’m taking these glasses off to recharge the battery with this case well then I don’t have glasses so now I’ve
Got to get a spare pair of glasses I did bring a spare pair of glasses which I swapped into traded these out at the ER and that was pretty frustrating you can use these as everyday glasses without the battery being charged but you know what’s the point you can’t record video
With them also the video plays back in a vertical format which is great for sharing on Instagram or online and it’s fine for looking at on your phone but when you look at it on a VR headset like apple Vision Pro the formatting doesn’t feel ideal for how you’re looking at it
On your face I really preferred looking at something like spatial video which was shot in landscape format for that immersive memory experience but the audio on this is good like when I record audio and I can play it back I hear it in the glasses like it’s spatial or you
Know when you’re playing back with headphones and the audio feels fine if you’re playing back for music and messages if you’re just using this as a pair of glasses that can also be your headphones but they’re not the same thing as AR and VR at some point they
Might be and I would love if these had some sort of 3D spatial video recording in them you know recording through both lenses as opposed to just one maybe that’ll come next so after recording a lot of videos in meta Rayband glasses and a bunch of videos in apple spatial
Video and then playing them back both on my phone and in Apple’s Apple Vision Pro VR headset it gave me the feeling that my memories are kind of being split in two different directions I mean they are coming together in one photo library but I’ve got these Quick videos which are
Really easy to record on the glasses which I don’t have to feel distracted by looking at my phone and I feel like I’m really there playing them back it on a phone it looks great in vertical video format on the headset it looks a little like I’m just playing back a video
Whereas when I’m recording stuff on my phone yes it’s annoying to hold up the phone but when I play it back it does make me feel a little more like I’m there with spatial video so which one do you get I mean they’re really different propositions and you technically could
Afford both I mean the Apple Vision Pro is really expensive at $3,500 these glasses at a couple hundred are not too too expensive although you may have to outfit them with prescription lenses like I did which costs a bit more but these are a different type of product these are
Meant to be worn a lot and used pretty frequently uh worn like your everyday glasses and then they beam those images and photos and videos back to your phone back to the device which I then look at later so that’s a difference for me this is an outside product Vision Pro is an
Inside wear later product I really love recording videos in these even though the battery runs out quickly and maybe people find that a little bit weird that I’m recording video on my glasses I found that it’s pretty laidback and that’s something that VR headsets are definitely not they’re not as laidback
So I want to live my life in these and I want to replay my life in something like this anyway that’s my vision of the future thanks for watching and if you have abstract comments or thoughts make sure to put them below and thanks for watching
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