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So, there are two main kinds of smart glasses on the market right now. The

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meta style with cameras and speakers and

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the even reality's G1 style with a

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display and a microphone but no cameras or no speakers. Why not both is what

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Rokid said with the Rokid glasses. And this is kind of an exciting product

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because it's basically the first one on the market to combine these feature sets

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into a set of glasses that is ostensibly

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normal looking. Those are the glasses themselves. But first, let's find out

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what else is in the box. So, this case right here, actually, there's a charging

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cable in there, uh, USBA to their

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proprietary charging connector. This one has five pins. This case is not a

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charging case. Uh, you can get the charging case separately, which is an

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interesting choice, although they do give you a charging cable. And I think there's another one in there as well.

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It's a shorter charging cable with the same magnetic connector, except it's

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only got three pins, and it ends in a USBC female port, so you can plug any

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USBC cord in there. I'm not sure if there's a charging time difference

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between the five pin and the 3 pin, but I would imagine so. Also in the box

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here, we have a set of extra nose pads.

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if if you have a particularly greasy nose. Okay, on to the glasses

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themselves. Now, it has these microLEDD

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displays in there, one on each side, as well as like there's like two stacked.

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And they say that it's like the smallest one, 0.15

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cubic centimeters, which is quite impressive given that overall they don't

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feel heavy at all. They feel like a regular pair of glasses. Rokit says that

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it's built with TR90

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highpolymer titanium plastic. It does

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feel like a cheap pair of glasses, but uh so back to the front here, we have

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the 12 megapixel camera. This can apparently take 60fps video. On this

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side is apparently a indicator of when

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you're recording. On the right side here, we've got the uh touchpad, which

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is already showing some fingerprints. Inside the Rokid logo is a mic inside

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the O. And then at the back, we've got that magnetic charging connector with

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the five pins. On top of the right arm,

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we have the capture button/generalpurpose

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kind of photo and video button. That is kind of the standard UI for these things

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these days. Also on the top on either side here, we have speaker grills that

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match the ones on the bottom. Also on the bottom here, we can see two mics on

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the left arm on the bottom and one mic

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on the bottom of the right arm. So, four mics total. Last thing I wanted to say

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about the kind of physical overview is that while a lot of smart glasses brands

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have realized that if you want people to adopt uh your brand and your product,

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you kind of have to make glasses that look cool that people will want to wear.

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These, you know, the vibe I'm getting is uh the

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3D glasses you get at the movie theater, which is less, you know,

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the the the style leaves something to to be desired. But again, I can overlook it

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if the use of this thing, if using this thing is actually as revolutionary as

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description. Okay, without further ado, I've got a phone with the app loaded up.

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Let's uh let's enter the um Metaverse, I

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mean, Rokitverse, per se. Oh, there we go. Okay. All

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right, that feels okay. I can see the display right down there. It's just a

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strip. Now, this thing does have the Qualcomm Snapdragon AR1 inside. Uh, so I

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expect performance to be somewhat snappy. One thing I've noticed about

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these is that the Even G1 very much look like regular glasses. And I think the

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Meta Ray-B bands all do as well because they don't have a screen in them. These

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ones, one thing that makes them very much look not like regular glasses is

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the lack of an anti-reflective coating on there. So when I put them on, I mean,

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you can see the reflection of the lights like super well, right?

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Am I you going to answer or am I >> Oh, yes. Yeah.

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>> It's like a little bit less with the Even G1, right?

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>> A little bit. >> Little bit better. Can you see any green if I do this?

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>> No. When you look down >> like like this? >> Yeah.

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>> Now, before I even use the app or anything, I just kind of want to see if

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I just put these on. How easy is it to use? If I click that, it says there's a

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wake word. Hi, Rokit.

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>> How are you doing today? >> Thank you for asking. >> Can you hear that?

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>> I am here and ready to assist you with any questions or tasks related to your

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Rokit glasses. How can I help you today? >> Are you still listening?

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Okay, it passed the Meta AI test. Are

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you still listening? >> No. >> Now, what does this touchpad do? I can

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swipe left and right to go to my messages or to go back to home or to go

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to apps. We got translator, prompter,

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lyrics, insight, navigation, and

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settings. This is cool. Oliver, speak

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Chinese to me. >> Not yet. Okay. Translator. Let's do it.

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Speak to me.

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>> Okay. It's not going to say it back. >> Hello. >> I'm speaking a little Chinese. Can you

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understand what I'm talking about? >> I'm speaking a little Chinese.

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>> I didn't get that. Hey, what's your favorite Chinese food, bro?

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>> Uh, what she wants? Uh,

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bing chilling. >> Oh, you're asking. I love to eat being

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chilling >> with the Even G1. It didn't have

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speakers. It only showed the translations on screen and I was like,

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"This is enough. It's actually easier for me to just read the translation

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instead of having to listen to the voice play it back." Um, so having both

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is Yeah, it's like it's redundant. So I would just take take off that uh speak

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translations allowed. Okay. Teleprompter. Okay. It's got a script in

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here already about a yellow bee. Oh, is this the bee movie script?

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>> Yes, it is. >> Yellow, black, yellow, black, yellow,

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black. Ooh, black and yellow. Let's shake it up a little. Barry, breakfast

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is ready. Coming. Hang on a second. Hello. I will say

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huge benefit over the even G1 is that

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the display is right in the middle. So, you we have a much larger range. Here's

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the top of the display and here's the bottom. If I bring that closer to my

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face, it's like that. So, that's pretty good. Meeting notes.

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>> Rocket glasses. >> It's someone talking in Chinese about

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the rocket glasses. I'm going to turn on the translator. The Roka glasses won't

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help me translate a file that is playing

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from the Roka glasses themselves. Product broken.

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Destroy these. I want to make a note about smart glasses. Are they really

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smart or are they do they make us dumb?

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Stop recording. How do I stop stop? Uh

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>> I want to make a note about smart. >> The mic quality isn't bad. We're testing

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the cameras now. >> Ready?

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Wow. I don't know if you heard that sound, but it was like futuristic.

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That's definitely the most extra photo sound I've ever heard in a device ever.

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Okay, there's a little, you know, there's not a ton of detail that I would

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like to see in a mobile photo, but it's

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not offensive in terms of the quality. It's not the sharpest photo you're ever

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going to see in your life, but pretty decent. I think if you touch and hold

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it'll record a video, but I'm going to see what happens if I tell the AI to do

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it. Hi, Rokid. record a video.

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It says, "Hi, I'm listening," but it's clearly not listening to me. And for

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that, it's going to get a timeout. If I tap and hold

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record a video, okay, so it got it that

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time. But you earlier, I said the wake word and then I asked it something and

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it listened and and responded, but that time it didn't do it. I don't know.

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Maybe AI is just getting sassy now and it just doesn't want to listen. But let's see. Here's the video. Video.

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I'm going to walk this way.

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>> Hey, come back here. >> No, I'm escaping. This AI is sentient

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and we we're going to run away and have a life together.

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>> You can't stop us. Hi, Rokid.

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>> AI assistant is unavailable during video record. >> Okay, I guess you can't stop the video

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manually or with your voice. Hello. You

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can't >> recording has stopped. >> How? Okay. I got to know if you can turn

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that off. Is there like AI specific settings? I want to be able to stop it

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from talking and still read what it's what it wrote. Oh, no. You can't. In

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this version of the app at least, it appears that there isn't a way to have

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the AI not respond verbally when you want to use one of the AI functions. I

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find that incredibly irritating, especially because in public I don't

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like maybe I want to ask quickly like, you know, how do I navigate to so- and

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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

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around me in the in the cafe, you know, lineup. I don't know, maybe that'll be

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normal in the AI future. Everyone's just obnoxious and annoying. Base model chat

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GPT. Oh, I didn't even mention this. The AI, as you might expect, uses like the

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API to chalk to chat GBT or you can set

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it to Quen, which I think is a Alibaba

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model. So, I scrolled all the way down to the video settings. Like the photo

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settings, you can select the aspect ratio 3x4, 9x6, vertical, or 4x3

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landscape. And you can do the same for video. However, there's no 60 FPS

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option. Their notes said in the beginning that there's a 60, it's the

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first AI glasses to record 60 FPS video and it's not here in the settings.

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However, there is a newer version of this app. But when we went to download

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it, it required us to log in with WeChat

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and we don't have we don't do that. Okay. As long as we're talking about the

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camera, I want to try the multimodal AI interaction. The ability to look at

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stuff, translate, tell me what I'm looking at, give me some information.

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Let's see if it does anything with this. Hi, Rokid.

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Oh, okay. We're getting some lag. Even with the Snapdragon AR1, this seems like

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a good time to just briefly mention that

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smart glasses, as far as I can tell, having used many of them, very much

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still are like a janky thing. They're early adopter products still. So, like

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just be aware if you haven't dipped your toe in this like with an actual product,

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you've just like watched stuff about it, there is jank. Even if people don't put

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it in the videos, even if they're like, "It changed my life. I use this every

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day and it's so useful." They are hiding the amount of jank. One example of that

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kind of like jankiness is the fact that

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you can have prescription lenses for this. You can get prescription inserts

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that are magnetic and they pop on this

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side and then have like two two lenses

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on your glasses. I don't know, maybe it's a nice solution. I we don't have

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them here so I can't tell, but it just seems a little janky to me. However, we

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have a couple products coming up that may kind of set the standard for

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usability. I'll talk about that more at the end. Can you translate this text?

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>> The text on the backs includes both English and Chinese. Here's the

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translation of the Chinese part.

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Smart glasses production date. See packaging manufacturer

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technology company limit. >> Okay.

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I didn't think it was necessary to read out the Chinese verbally and just say it

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in Chinese before you give me the translation, but it did give me the

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translation after that. So, uh, I guess that could be useful. All right.

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Multimodal stuff. Hey. Hi, Rokid.

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Hi, Rokid. Hi, Rokid. You, where do you go? Where

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do you go on your little journeys? Hi, Rokid. What the heck am I looking at

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right now? >> There is a small shelf or wall niche with a device inside, possibly a smart

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home hub or speaker. >> Okay. I mean, it seemed to get it

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mostly. I don't know if I would trust it to help with like fixing your car, but

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it's something to try if nothing else works. Please say, "Hi, Rokid.

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Navigate to the closest grocery store."

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>> I'm sorry, but I can't start navigation or control your devices.

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>> It just heard me say, "Navigate to the closest," and then it immediately

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started answering. It's like again, I can't navigate. Can you give me

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directions to the closest grocery store?

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>> The closest major grocery store to your location. 1,864,352.

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A number 101. Siri BC is the real

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supertore. >> 188. It may have gotten those directions from

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Google Maps, but I want like it to show me the directions.

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>> Navigation has exited.

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I just started a song somehow.

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>> How do I stop it?

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It just stopped. The jank that I was talking about, it's here. The jank is

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very much here. Maybe it works better

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like in China connecting to services there and dealing with like native

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Chinese language instead of like having to translate everything to English. I

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don't know. Okay, last thing. Just want to do a quick speaker test with our old

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favorite Crab Rave.

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That's not bad. This is the funny thing about these like Chinese companies that

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are like quick to market with a product. Some aspects of the use of this are

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extremely janky. And I was frustrated. You saw it. But at the same time, you

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know, you'll encounter some things about this that are just like there's like a

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little taste of high fidelity in there. It uses a Snapdragon AR1 processor,

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which is a good processor. It uses good speakers, apparently. Now, this is a

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very opportune time for this product to come out because at the end of

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September, we have a couple of events

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from Meta and Samsung where it seems

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like they're going to talk about their smart glasses. So, this is coming out

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first. It's getting some hype. It's getting some buzz. We're making a video

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about it. I'm telling you that it's janky, but it's one of the options. The

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other thing that's kind of different and maybe, you know, reason for a pause is

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the fact that it's on Kickstarter. Fair enough. However, as with all Kickstarter

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products, you know, they look really cool. They're getting your money up

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front. Are you going to get what you're delivered, you know, months from now? I

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don't know. Oh, the one thing I wanted to mention that I didn't was the battery

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life. They say that it will get 6 hours of music listening time and 4 hours of

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Bluetooth phone calls. So, if you do want to get them on Kickstarter, uh you

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can get them for $480 via the Kickstarter. And then when they actually

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launch, apparently they're going to start shipping around November. They're going to launch at $600. It's pretty

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good for glasses with this many features in them. Still, at this point, if you

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get smart glasses and you're getting a product like this, you are an early

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adopter and you're going to pay an early adopter tax, if not in money, in time

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and troubleshooting. Like I said, we got those other smart glasses models uh

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probably being announced very shortly. So, things are going to get exciting.

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And uh let me know if you're excited for

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these or other things uh out there in the world. Just anything, subscribe to

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ShortCircuit. And if you're looking for another video to watch, watch the

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previous video I made about smart glasses. They met at Oakley Hen.

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They said Houston, but it's just in a weird way. It's just fun and quirky and