Meta’s Oakley Vanguard Sports tried to convert me into XTREME SPORTS Guy

Running on the jeans walking device on Menlo Park in Meta when it is about 80 degrees is not my idea of ​​time. But I was curious about the new smart shades of Meta and the Garmin SPORTS watch for me.

I couldn’t see exercise statistics floating in front of my eyes, not at least yet, but I can order the heart rate upon request. AirPods can do soalso. But AirPods cannot record my POV Exercation video with likely to appear later.

New Meta Oakley Vanguard, which comes on October 21 for $ 499, is not your daily specifications. They make bold Oakli Meta HSTN The glasses that were released this summer seem to tame. In them, I look like my father with a serious middle -aged crisis. Xtreme Scott should only wear these glasses while doing a sporty thing, which is the totally targeted Meta market.

Dead Smart glasses A variety that grows much larger in Meta Connect this year. In addition to these mathematical specifications, the parent company will sell on Facebook Meta Ray Bans updateAs well as a future version called Ray-Ban views, Which includes a screen in lenses and a nervous tape.

Vanguard is the group’s smart sports mask. It is also another step by Meta to try to enter the fitness and health space, a region that was not a strong Meta suit, although I love VR training on its headphones. They have a sound on the pipes that are coordinated outside the ear, but the single camera is now concentrated in the middle of the tires over the bridge of the nose, and it has a wider width field 122 degrees. It is designed to capture better sports clips, improve sound and microphones with greater levels of size and reduce the best environmental noise.

They also have a better battery life than the last Ray-Ban and Oakley glasses updates. Meta is nine hours of battery life at a shipment and another 36 hours in the case of shipping, which reaches 50 % in 20 minutes (a new feature in other modern glasses in Meta).

Camera tricks, sound help

The field of broader vision and the consecutive camera looks like the features that I want on other identification glasses as well, but it will be exclusive to the vanguard. However, new slow video recording modes and temporal radiology also come to Ray-Bans and Other Oakley 2025 glasses.

The five microphones contain wind insulation that will make hearing glasses better in external situations such as cycling, skiing or skiing, or anything you try to do in this.

They are the IP67 water and dust, so they should be more suitable for some water sports. However, IP67 is not the same to be resistant, so I am still cautious.

The design changes

The sound control tools and a touch plate on the right side of the Vanguards, which are very small this time. There is a camera control button on the bottom side of the hills on the right arm, which may be easier to pressure it on the move. On the other side of it is the second -boundarized procedure button that can be used to stimulate specific specific recording modes.

Garmin and health links may be a continuous work

My brief test was not to use Vanguards with a great Garmin watch. While the Garmin watch tracked the exercise, I can ask glasses about the heart rate and speed. The heart rate took some time to record the watch properly, and the speed measurement does not seem to work. It turned out that the Garmin watch was not associated with my mill mill, a member of the Meta team later told me, but it is a sign of the trinity that is likely to be embarrassed with two wearable devices simultaneously. Vanguard tends to data from the paired Garmin watch. They do not follow fitness on the plane. The vanguard can work with StravaHowever, to track and share fitness statistics.

Inside, a new LED LED is activated on the ocean inside the glasses to refer to the targets of the heart rate area, which is something that I did not notice when I collected them shortly.

Meta also connects with Apple Health and Android Health Connect. Wissards can withdraw data from these sources and add them to highlight videos, which can receive moments of exercise that is captured in periodic fiery shorts and edit them after that. But only Garmin watches can transfer direct heart rate.

I feel curious how much Meta can go further. Apple and Google can already do much more with their connected products. While Garmin is a great brand, it is also an isolated sign now. I would like to see more hours supported with the vanguard, but it is unclear when or whether it will happen.

In the door

The vanguard certainly appears to be promising that can be worn for mathematical species. Meta is chasing GoPro and Health and Fitness Mandscape with these, but there is a lot of land to cover. I will be curious how they do when CNET reviews next month, but I am not sure that I am extremist enough to test them. We’ll see.