Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

Ok, I fell for the hype and picked these up as soon as I could. They're all over YouTube right now and everyone was raving, so I had to see what it was all about. They were also all sponsored promotions and it's hard to trust those to be completely unbiased, but I was intrigued enough to say what the hell and drop the $380. I can always return them, right? Long story short, I'm using them a ton. I will probably regret it someday, but they make for pretty neat heads-up display when I'm riding my motorcycle. I can put the Waze up on side view or some other such utility and it makes me feel a little like Iron Man. And I do mean just a little. I can also do some finagling and watch some video at the bottom of the "screen" (I know, I know, so dangerous...). I don't care, I have some Star Wars shows to catch up on and this is the easiest time to get them in. I also use it to play my Steam Deck (which is the big selling point in all those YouTuber reviews), and I also got the HDMI adapter which I'll review separately (spoiler alert: I'm barely keeping that too, but mostly because it only lasts a few hours and I'd like an option to keep it powered for long gaming sessions on my Xbox). Ultimately, it works about as good as you can expect. It's no different than a car which shines a display up at the windshield to give you your info, but this is in COLOR! It works decently well washed out against a bright background. They're not terribly comfortable but I appreciate that they TRIED to make them not look totally stupid wearing out in public (the only real weird thing is how far from they sit from your eyes. I wish the included lenses for custom prescription sizing were actual reading glasses and not just a template. Not everyone needs to get prescription glasses made for these and having them be more functional out of the box would have been a serious plus I feel they missed the boat on. It would make it easier for me to keep them on when I need to see outside of the display, like to read a text without having to take them off an put on my glasses. I can read everything without extra lenses on the display, so for me I'm glad I can still use them without being REQUIRED to get a prescription. I feel sorry for the people who have banana shaped eyeballs... The next point I'd like to make is with the software. I think there's real potential here, but I'm quite disappointed that I can't add any old app to the Nebula AR experience. I hardly use that function because most of what I want is a standard app. You'd think they'd have some kind of picture-in-picture functionality so you could add any app to their proprietary offerings, but maybe that'll come out in some future update (or maybe I'm missing something...I don't know. I didn't get my wife's permission to get these, so I haven't been able to dabble with it too much.) All-in-all, if you have some money to burn these are pretty fun. If not, I'd wait until v2 or v3 to splurge. I'm sure they'll improve field of view and other stuff to make it more worth the expense. ...This is Kuiil, and I have spoken. ...That's right, back to the Mandalorian.