So, there are two main kinds of smart glasses on the market right now. The
meta style with cameras and speakers and
the even reality's G1 style with a
display and a microphone but no cameras or no speakers. Why not both is what
Rokid said with the Rokid glasses. And this is kind of an exciting product
because it's basically the first one on the market to combine these feature sets
into a set of glasses that is ostensibly
normal looking. Those are the glasses themselves. But first, let's find out
what else is in the box. So, this case right here, actually, there's a charging
cable in there, uh, USBA to their
proprietary charging connector. This one has five pins. This case is not a
charging case. Uh, you can get the charging case separately, which is an
interesting choice, although they do give you a charging cable. And I think there's another one in there as well.
It's a shorter charging cable with the same magnetic connector, except it's
only got three pins, and it ends in a USBC female port, so you can plug any
USBC cord in there. I'm not sure if there's a charging time difference
between the five pin and the 3 pin, but I would imagine so. Also in the box
here, we have a set of extra nose pads.
if if you have a particularly greasy nose. Okay, on to the glasses
themselves. Now, it has these microLEDD
displays in there, one on each side, as well as like there's like two stacked.
And they say that it's like the smallest one, 0.15
cubic centimeters, which is quite impressive given that overall they don't
feel heavy at all. They feel like a regular pair of glasses. Rokit says that
it's built with TR90
highpolymer titanium plastic. It does
feel like a cheap pair of glasses, but uh so back to the front here, we have
the 12 megapixel camera. This can apparently take 60fps video. On this
side is apparently a indicator of when
you're recording. On the right side here, we've got the uh touchpad, which
is already showing some fingerprints. Inside the Rokid logo is a mic inside
the O. And then at the back, we've got that magnetic charging connector with
the five pins. On top of the right arm,
we have the capture button/generalpurpose
kind of photo and video button. That is kind of the standard UI for these things
these days. Also on the top on either side here, we have speaker grills that
match the ones on the bottom. Also on the bottom here, we can see two mics on
the left arm on the bottom and one mic
on the bottom of the right arm. So, four mics total. Last thing I wanted to say
about the kind of physical overview is that while a lot of smart glasses brands
have realized that if you want people to adopt uh your brand and your product,
you kind of have to make glasses that look cool that people will want to wear.
These, you know, the vibe I'm getting is uh the
3D glasses you get at the movie theater, which is less, you know,
the the the style leaves something to to be desired. But again, I can overlook it
if the use of this thing, if using this thing is actually as revolutionary as
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Let's uh let's enter the um Metaverse, I
mean, Rokitverse, per se. Oh, there we go. Okay. All
right, that feels okay. I can see the display right down there. It's just a
strip. Now, this thing does have the Qualcomm Snapdragon AR1 inside. Uh, so I
expect performance to be somewhat snappy. One thing I've noticed about
these is that the Even G1 very much look like regular glasses. And I think the
Meta Ray-B bands all do as well because they don't have a screen in them. These
ones, one thing that makes them very much look not like regular glasses is
the lack of an anti-reflective coating on there. So when I put them on, I mean,
you can see the reflection of the lights like super well, right?
Am I you going to answer or am I >> Oh, yes. Yeah.
>> It's like a little bit less with the Even G1, right?
>> A little bit. >> Little bit better. Can you see any green if I do this?
>> No. When you look down >> like like this? >> Yeah.
>> Now, before I even use the app or anything, I just kind of want to see if
I just put these on. How easy is it to use? If I click that, it says there's a
wake word. Hi, Rokit.
>> How are you doing today? >> Thank you for asking. >> Can you hear that?
>> I am here and ready to assist you with any questions or tasks related to your
Rokit glasses. How can I help you today? >> Are you still listening?
Okay, it passed the Meta AI test. Are
you still listening? >> No. >> Now, what does this touchpad do? I can
swipe left and right to go to my messages or to go back to home or to go
to apps. We got translator, prompter,
lyrics, insight, navigation, and
settings. This is cool. Oliver, speak
Chinese to me. >> Not yet. Okay. Translator. Let's do it.
Speak to me.
>> Okay. It's not going to say it back. >> Hello. >> I'm speaking a little Chinese. Can you
understand what I'm talking about? >> I'm speaking a little Chinese.
>> I didn't get that. Hey, what's your favorite Chinese food, bro?
>> Uh, what she wants? Uh,
bing chilling. >> Oh, you're asking. I love to eat being
chilling >> with the Even G1. It didn't have
speakers. It only showed the translations on screen and I was like,
"This is enough. It's actually easier for me to just read the translation
instead of having to listen to the voice play it back." Um, so having both
is Yeah, it's like it's redundant. So I would just take take off that uh speak
translations allowed. Okay. Teleprompter. Okay. It's got a script in
here already about a yellow bee. Oh, is this the bee movie script?
>> Yes, it is. >> Yellow, black, yellow, black, yellow,
black. Ooh, black and yellow. Let's shake it up a little. Barry, breakfast
is ready. Coming. Hang on a second. Hello. I will say
huge benefit over the even G1 is that
the display is right in the middle. So, you we have a much larger range. Here's
the top of the display and here's the bottom. If I bring that closer to my
face, it's like that. So, that's pretty good. Meeting notes.
>> Rocket glasses. >> It's someone talking in Chinese about
the rocket glasses. I'm going to turn on the translator. The Roka glasses won't
help me translate a file that is playing
from the Roka glasses themselves. Product broken.
Destroy these. I want to make a note about smart glasses. Are they really
smart or are they do they make us dumb?
Stop recording. How do I stop stop? Uh
>> I want to make a note about smart. >> The mic quality isn't bad. We're testing
the cameras now. >> Ready?
Wow. I don't know if you heard that sound, but it was like futuristic.
That's definitely the most extra photo sound I've ever heard in a device ever.
Okay, there's a little, you know, there's not a ton of detail that I would
like to see in a mobile photo, but it's
not offensive in terms of the quality. It's not the sharpest photo you're ever
going to see in your life, but pretty decent. I think if you touch and hold
it'll record a video, but I'm going to see what happens if I tell the AI to do
it. Hi, Rokid. record a video.
It says, "Hi, I'm listening," but it's clearly not listening to me. And for
that, it's going to get a timeout. If I tap and hold
record a video, okay, so it got it that
time. But you earlier, I said the wake word and then I asked it something and
it listened and and responded, but that time it didn't do it. I don't know.
Maybe AI is just getting sassy now and it just doesn't want to listen. But let's see. Here's the video. Video.
I'm going to walk this way.
>> Hey, come back here. >> No, I'm escaping. This AI is sentient
and we we're going to run away and have a life together.
>> You can't stop us. Hi, Rokid.
>> AI assistant is unavailable during video record. >> Okay, I guess you can't stop the video
manually or with your voice. Hello. You
can't >> recording has stopped. >> How? Okay. I got to know if you can turn
that off. Is there like AI specific settings? I want to be able to stop it
from talking and still read what it's what it wrote. Oh, no. You can't. In
this version of the app at least, it appears that there isn't a way to have
the AI not respond verbally when you want to use one of the AI functions. I
find that incredibly irritating, especially because in public I don't
like maybe I want to ask quickly like, you know, how do I navigate to so- and
so? And I want it to give me the directions on my glasses, but I don't want it to like broadcast for the people
around me in the in the cafe, you know, lineup. I don't know, maybe that'll be
normal in the AI future. Everyone's just obnoxious and annoying. Base model chat
GPT. Oh, I didn't even mention this. The AI, as you might expect, uses like the
API to chalk to chat GBT or you can set
it to Quen, which I think is a Alibaba
model. So, I scrolled all the way down to the video settings. Like the photo
settings, you can select the aspect ratio 3x4, 9x6, vertical, or 4x3
landscape. And you can do the same for video. However, there's no 60 FPS
option. Their notes said in the beginning that there's a 60, it's the
first AI glasses to record 60 FPS video and it's not here in the settings.
However, there is a newer version of this app. But when we went to download
it, it required us to log in with WeChat
and we don't have we don't do that. Okay. As long as we're talking about the
camera, I want to try the multimodal AI interaction. The ability to look at
stuff, translate, tell me what I'm looking at, give me some information.
Let's see if it does anything with this. Hi, Rokid.
Oh, okay. We're getting some lag. Even with the Snapdragon AR1, this seems like
a good time to just briefly mention that
smart glasses, as far as I can tell, having used many of them, very much
still are like a janky thing. They're early adopter products still. So, like
just be aware if you haven't dipped your toe in this like with an actual product,
you've just like watched stuff about it, there is jank. Even if people don't put
it in the videos, even if they're like, "It changed my life. I use this every
day and it's so useful." They are hiding the amount of jank. One example of that
kind of like jankiness is the fact that
you can have prescription lenses for this. You can get prescription inserts
that are magnetic and they pop on this
side and then have like two two lenses
on your glasses. I don't know, maybe it's a nice solution. I we don't have
them here so I can't tell, but it just seems a little janky to me. However, we
have a couple products coming up that may kind of set the standard for
usability. I'll talk about that more at the end. Can you translate this text?
>> The text on the backs includes both English and Chinese. Here's the
translation of the Chinese part.
Smart glasses production date. See packaging manufacturer
technology company limit. >> Okay.
I didn't think it was necessary to read out the Chinese verbally and just say it
in Chinese before you give me the translation, but it did give me the
translation after that. So, uh, I guess that could be useful. All right.
Multimodal stuff. Hey. Hi, Rokid.
Hi, Rokid. Hi, Rokid. You, where do you go? Where
do you go on your little journeys? Hi, Rokid. What the heck am I looking at
right now? >> There is a small shelf or wall niche with a device inside, possibly a smart
home hub or speaker. >> Okay. I mean, it seemed to get it
mostly. I don't know if I would trust it to help with like fixing your car, but
it's something to try if nothing else works. Please say, "Hi, Rokid.
Navigate to the closest grocery store."
>> I'm sorry, but I can't start navigation or control your devices.
>> It just heard me say, "Navigate to the closest," and then it immediately
started answering. It's like again, I can't navigate. Can you give me
directions to the closest grocery store?
>> The closest major grocery store to your location. 1,864,352.
A number 101. Siri BC is the real
supertore. >> 188. It may have gotten those directions from
Google Maps, but I want like it to show me the directions.
>> Navigation has exited.
I just started a song somehow.
>> How do I stop it?
It just stopped. The jank that I was talking about, it's here. The jank is
very much here. Maybe it works better
like in China connecting to services there and dealing with like native
Chinese language instead of like having to translate everything to English. I
don't know. Okay, last thing. Just want to do a quick speaker test with our old
favorite Crab Rave.
That's not bad. This is the funny thing about these like Chinese companies that
are like quick to market with a product. Some aspects of the use of this are
extremely janky. And I was frustrated. You saw it. But at the same time, you
know, you'll encounter some things about this that are just like there's like a
little taste of high fidelity in there. It uses a Snapdragon AR1 processor,
which is a good processor. It uses good speakers, apparently. Now, this is a
very opportune time for this product to come out because at the end of
September, we have a couple of events
from Meta and Samsung where it seems
like they're going to talk about their smart glasses. So, this is coming out
first. It's getting some hype. It's getting some buzz. We're making a video
about it. I'm telling you that it's janky, but it's one of the options. The
other thing that's kind of different and maybe, you know, reason for a pause is
the fact that it's on Kickstarter. Fair enough. However, as with all Kickstarter
products, you know, they look really cool. They're getting your money up
front. Are you going to get what you're delivered, you know, months from now? I
don't know. Oh, the one thing I wanted to mention that I didn't was the battery
life. They say that it will get 6 hours of music listening time and 4 hours of
Bluetooth phone calls. So, if you do want to get them on Kickstarter, uh you
can get them for $480 via the Kickstarter. And then when they actually
launch, apparently they're going to start shipping around November. They're going to launch at $600. It's pretty
good for glasses with this many features in them. Still, at this point, if you
get smart glasses and you're getting a product like this, you are an early
adopter and you're going to pay an early adopter tax, if not in money, in time
and troubleshooting. Like I said, we got those other smart glasses models uh
probably being announced very shortly. So, things are going to get exciting.
And uh let me know if you're excited for
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