AI Smart glasses

The Saloon
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AI Smart Glasses—every Spaghetti Western fan’s dream?

At least at first glance, that sounds great—various features, including simultaneous translations from 164 languages. Does that mean, for example, that if I pop a Spanish DVD into the player, put on the glasses, and then get a simultaneous translation into my preferred language?

First, you have to install the Ear Dance app on your smartphone, then establish a Bluetooth connection to the glasses, and set the source language in the app—in the case of a Spanish DVD, that’s Spanish—and the desired output language, which in my case is German.

Yes, it works, but with some limitations. The translation captures the general meaning, but with fast-paced sentences and a lot of dialogue, the voice—which speaks at a constant speed—can’t keep up, so some sentences are skipped. The translation is displayed simultaneously on the app, however, and is complete. It’s best to press the pause button and wait until the voice has caught up. Since development is constantly progressing and improving, I assume that in 1–2 years these translations will work perfectly, so that you’ll be able to insert any DVD or Blu-ray in any language into the drive and have it translated.

I tested it with Spanish, Italian, and English, each translated into German.

Right now, I’d give them 3.5 out of 5 stars, but I’d recommend everyone try these AI smart glasses. In my case, I paid €34 (and Amazon offers a 14-day return policy).

All in all, a fantastic invention!

The Link: Amazon.de

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Interesting. I have talked about these things a lot (and I made the Amazon link an SWDb link).
This is quite a cheap product, but there are more advanced ones as well. My gf is an optician and they sell the Even Realities 2, which is somethig one could look into if money is no limitation, plus you can have them with prescription glasses

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It was my first experience with this technology, which was new to me, so it was mainly the price that convinced me to give the glasses a try. In any case, I wouldn’t have spent several hundred euros. They do the job for now; we’ll have to wait and see how much the technology improves and whether the price of high-quality glasses goes down as well.

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Can it also display the subs “in” the glasses themselves or do you have to keep looking at your phone?

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You know prices? Prescription glasses sounds interesting.

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No, not in the glasses only on phone display. The glasses only “talks”.

But maybe someone has already tried an expensive version?

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I would have to ask. As far as I remember it starts at about 600.

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600 is a hefty sum, and returning it won’t be so easy if you end up being dissatisfied.

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It is sold, at least in Berlin, via a local optician so regular consumer rights should apply. Trickier might be with prescription of course. If you are seriously interested I can inquire. And one friend of mine is a rather enthusiastic user

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Ok. Would also rather that the tv did a translation on the fly and it seems that some newer tvs do support this so at least more feasible for me when I’m due for a new tv in approx. 10 years time :slight_smile:

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Please keep one thing in mind: even if we don’t want to believe it—at least right now—time is running out.

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I’m very patient, so I’d rather wait a little longer—maybe they’ll be cheaper in 1–2 years. Until then, I’ll use the AI glasses for €34.

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Oh believe me I know that. I may be on my last tv :slight_smile:

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