Oakley Meta Vanguard Practical Training: What athletes really want

when HSTN Meta Okley I arrived earlier this year, it was not what I thought the Oakley Smart Eastern Elevans. Certainly, they had the famous Oakley lenses, but where was the Wraparound design? Where were the features that focus on athletes such as water resistance and strongest sweat? Crewly, I felt that HSTN glasses were just the Meta Ray-Ban glasses with another. But this is because Meta was TRUE Glasses that focus on athletes in their back pocket. Today, the company revealed the new “Ocli Mita Vandard”, which is 499 dollars – and it has everything possible for an outdoor athlete and then some of them.

“When we started building HSTN, the development process was easier because most of the things we wanted for low -influential sport, such as skiing, did not require much technology in the view from the performance point of view,” says Caio Amato, Oakli International President. On the contrary, Amato says, the vanguard was depicting as a “revolution” not only for the stars of the sporting elite, but warriors at the end of the week and ordinary athletes.

I put on the forefront, I felt myself turning into coach Taylor from Friday night lights. They are okleys attached to the sports coaches, outdoor militants, and parents who wear Patagonia’s clothes. In 66 grams, it is slightly greater than the regular Ray-Ban Meta glasses, but still feels weight and safe enough for more intense activity. This is partly due to the fact that the vanguard will be shipped in three replaceable colors to ensure a good suitability. The design is also designed with cycling caps and helmets in mind under Weapons instead of above.

When talking about the buttons, there is also a new work button that works as a shortcut for the various camera modes. Yes, I have read it correctly: modes. The vanguard contains a 12 -megapixel camera and 122 degrees placed in the nose bridge, with the registration indicator light placed directly above it. You can now register in 1080 pixels with 30 frames per second for five minutes, 1080 pixels in 60 frames per second for three minutes, 3 thousand per second for three minutes, and 720 pixels in 120 frames per second in a new Slo-Mo mode. There is also a new hyperlook that allows you to stitches together and pressed in a kind of distinctive virginity. (Hyperlapse and Slo-MO will update a program for all Meta glasses later in this fall.) There is also an adjustable installation, so you can customize based on the severity of the activity you do. Athletes can also program glasses to start registration in some prominent landmarks – such as when they approach the race to finish the race, for example. It is essentially similar to the position of GoPro on your face without there being a little ridiculous face.

Amato says the camera was the biggest challenge in developing the vanguard. The desire to capture a point of view from the first person, but “from the point of view of engineering and design, it changes (D) is completely everything from where the Ray-Ban Meta was before.” For example, to get this perspective of the first person, Amato says the camera requires a much wider range of vision, stronger installation, and 3K quality.

The vanguard has also been modified to meet outdoor performance. The lenses are exchangeable, and the low light option will be available later this year. Amato says that different colors are improved for certain activities. For example, if you are in fishing, you may want blue lenses because they neutralize blue shapes more.

Speakers with a 6DB voice. This may not seem much, but after paying the volume of the folder, I assure you, they can be loud. Amato says that loudspeakers have been tested on bicycles up to 30 miles per hour with present crowds, as well as in road races, so that the contestants can trust their tones on the race day. Unlike regular Ray-Ban glasses, this has impressive IP67 classification on water and sweat resistance. Meaning that if the kayak boats fall, then you do not have to worry about shattering glasses. The battery life is also the maximum of nine hours, and six hours of continuous music operation – enough for most people to finish the marathon race. With a case, you get a total of 36 hours and can receive about 50 percent in 20 minutes.

But the features that focus on athletes do not stop there. Meta is also a partnership with Strava and Garmin. For the first, you can download your shots directly to the platform. You will also be able to ask Meta’s AI about your historical Strava data. But it may be colder is that glasses can be associated directly with some Garmin watches. (I was told, “I must work most of the newer jewels.”) You can see an Amnesty International dead icon on the Garmin watch, and in the middle of the center, you can ask glasses to give you a reading of the heart rate and other statistics. Next, you can put an overload with the main standards in exercise on your video clips to share on social media. Garmin users can also program glasses to automatically capture excerpts at the main moments – for example, every time they finish a mile.

“We wanted to have Garmin and Strava (as partners) because they are leaders and because they have a society of sports around them,” says Amato. “We really love the full idea of ​​this view as enabling these sporting societies not only to be the best copy of it, but also to communicate and register better while picking life.”

There is more good news if you like to train the heart rate. There is a new LED light over the right eye that turns red if you venture outside the targeted area to exercise a specific exercise. LED light can also be formed to provide speed alerts.

The glasses took a brief spin on the walking device and used it to record a regular video and SLO-MO. It was simple and easy through the action button, but you can also ask AI from Meta to start registration. There was no time when I asked the glasses to give me readings on the heart rate. This is not sufficient to present a complete judgment, but my first impression is that this is a great advantage that attracts all kinds of athletes. I was a great admire Bose frames pace I ran half of the full marathon. I have been anxious somewhat anxious since they stopped. However, these were simply sound glasses, and I still have to use my phone to capture moments of the race. The ability to intensify sunglasses, headphones and camera in one piece of equipment is very attractive when it tries to manage a water jacket, chewing salt and sunscreen.

Amato says that the elite athletes’ response has so far been incredibly promising. The company had stars such as cycling Mark Cavindish, the midfielder of the US Football Association, Patrick Maqoum, and Killian Maababi from Real Madrid, helps in developing and providing notes on the device. According to Amato, glasses usually left speech on all possibilities. He claims that Maelz said that the vanguard “is no longer a glasses anymore” but rather “something completely new.”

I am not a professional athlete, and we have to put this test in the coming weeks. But if they can replace my Bose’s pace? I am the leader of the Team Jabroni team.

Oakley Meta Vanguard is available for pre -order today and will be charged on October 21.