The start up of the AR glasses was as you would expect, easy and straight forward.
They turn on, go through some settings and calibration, boom you're done.
The AR glasses are pretty darn cool. I connected my phone to the glasses to get a lot more out of them.
With this I can use the glasses to do a wide variety of things.
I can obviously get notifications. But I can also do pretty much anything a computer can, because they work like a display or a monitor.
So anything my phone shows I can see, and since my phone is running most of the processing. The glasses are only to display what the phone is doing.
I basically have a computer strapped to my face all the time.
Stocks? I can view them in real time.
Directions? The glasses can give me holographic arrows to follow to get me to where I need to go.
Hands full? Not a problem with voice controls.
They even come with spatial tracking.
You can even anchor specific augmented things to real life places or objects. For example you could make a shopping list in AR and leave it on the refrigerator so anytime you came back it would still be there.
Or you could have a tab open for the weather report open on the window. Want to know how cold it is outside? Just look at the window.
You can make phone calls which isn't really a big deal.
But what is?
That it supports real time language translation.
That has tons of uses. Well, for anything that needs translating.
I could also have real time price comparisons for anything I wanted to buy.
Ok, enough talking about the glasses.
I decided to get into the car meet feeling by looking up videos of cars meets.
From what I saw in the videos, I probably wouldn't like the car meet.
The videos showed loud, noisy, and chaotic crowds that were going crazy. Fighting, racing, doing donuts, having the cops called. It seemed like hell.
Oh man, now I am not looking forward to tonight.
I need to mentally prepare myself for the shit show that is going to happen.
I would so much rather this be a calm and casual meet up for people to talk and see each other's cars. Not some rambunctious competition.
To distract myself I decided to pull out the VR headset.
It can be a stand alone VR headset but if you plug it into a computer you get access to more games from places like Boil. Which offers a huge gaming library.
I decided to just try out the VR headset by itself first to see what it had to offer.
I had used the AR glasses for about an hour so there were only 40 or so minutes left until I could upgrade, and I could do that later.
Right now I just wanted to play some games.
I put on the VR headset, grabbed my controllers and uttered, "Link Start, I guess."
I'm so cringe.
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5 hours later, I found myself taking the headset off with a splitting headache and an insatiable hunger that made me feel nauseous.
What happened?
What time is it?
I had gotten so absorbed into the games that I had lost track of time. I have been standing so long that my legs are sore.
I have got to eat something. I am nauseous and a little dizzy.
That could also be from the game though.
Either way I am starving.
Making my way upstairs to get something to eat I ran into my mom making popcorn.
"Are you alright buddy, you look kind of sick?"
"Yeah, I just wasn't paying attention and forgot to eat. Now I'm so hungry that I'm nauseous."
"Well that's not good but I've been there before, so I can't really judge you."
"Yeah."
"I am going to light a candle to try and get rid of the popcorn smell."
"Ok."
While I was looking for something to eat my mom grabbed her popcorn.
"Oh… it looks like I burned some of it."
With that comment she made to herself she turned and walked back over toward the couch where she had been watching TV. It is a Saturday after all.
I decided to eat a frozen pizza. So I turned the oven on to warm up and left to go get the AR glasses.
Because I wasn't going to waste time just waiting for the oven to heat up and cook the pizza. That is valuable time I need to use wisely.
When I got back to the kitchen with the glasses I was reminded of the car meet. But I wasn't going to let that get me down.
So I went and started watching Me-tube.
I was watching various car crash videos, where the dash cam caught something crazy happening.
I know it's probably not the best idea to watch that right now but it was what I was drawn to at the moment.
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Once the pizza was done cooking about 20 minutes later, I pulled my 4 cheese pizza out of the oven and cut it into 8 pieces.
I slid the whole pizza onto a large plate that we had and carried the whole thing down into my office.
Don't worry about the grease, the AR glasses are hands free so I don't have to touch anything but my pizza.
Really what an invention.
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Once I had finished the pizza, yes the whole thing. It took about 40 minutes to eat.
I may be a skinny guy but I can put some food away when I'm hungry. Honestly I really don't know why I don't put on weight.
I took the plate to the dishwasher and washed my hands before coming back to my office.
Because I am not a dirty person.
Where I decided that it was time to upgrade everything: the AR glasses, VR headset, computers, monitors, and the storage drives. All of that was ready to be upgraded.