Last month I took a leap of faith and preordered a pair of Seleste smart glasses. For $99, plus $27 shipping, I was on the list for the next batch of 2000 pairs, due in mid-March.
Today I got the email I had been waiting for. My glasses have been shipped and should be with me on the 28th of March. Seleste is in Canada and I am in the United Kingdom, so that sounds reasonable. I also got a link to download the Seleste app (TestFlight required) and another to update my payment details for the subscription.
The subscription is £65 Canadian dollars, which is automatically converted to $50 U.S. dollars. The first payment is due one month after the glasses arrive.
The 29th of March is a holiday here, Good Friday, the start of the Easter weekend. Ig will also be the start of my journey as I take my first step into the future wearing my smart glasses. As they say, my future is about to get a whole lot brighter!
And what will be my answer, when they ask me “what can you see through those glasses?” I will reply “the future!”
The real answers will be chronicled in the comments, questions welcome.
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Celeste glasses
I ordered my glasses in December and got them in January. I was disappointed in 2 things. First... the voice that comes out of the right arm of the glasses. I don't know what I expected, but that voice, and the fact it only came out of 1 side, shocked me. Its tinny and monotone, something I would have expected back in the early 2000s. Second... for some reason, I was under the impression I could use them to make video calls to sighted friends and family. I feel like I saw this on a website as one of the listed benefits to these glasses. I remember showing it to a sighted friend, who also got that impression. So I ordered. And was disappointed. Enough so that I thought about returning them. But just yesterday, I put them on and stood at my window while they described the scenery outside. It was so much easier than holding my phone up to the window. Then I scanned the page of a book. It took a few tries, but I eventually got it to read, almost perfectly, 95 percent of the text on the page. When I've tried that with my phone, the results weren't nearly as good. So, even though I'm disappointed, there are still things I really enjoy about the glasses and I want to see and be a part of how this evolves. So I'm keeping them. But I'm also considering getting the Meta glasses.
Does anyone here still have these?
I sent mine back a couple of weeks ago. What are they like now?
Has anyone gotten shipping info
If you are supposed to receive your glasses in this batch, have you received your shipping info. I had the understanding that they were supposed to ship mid last week
no shipping info yet
I haven't received any shipping info yet.
I contacted the company last Wednesday and was told that they are expected to ship by the end of this week.
Hope that helps a little.
Recordings on the glasses
Hopefully soon, once this pain and trauma with having to maybe end my partner's life support in the ICU is over, I'll try to make a recording.
I will also be getting the Meta glasses as well... so maybe will talk about both at some point as well. I'll try for the end of this week / next weekend for the recording, that should be when the most of this is over. Sorry for the delay, I know I'd said I would a while back, but things have been pretty chaotic right now, LOL.
When it is done, I'll post links.
Portia
Please focus on looking after yourself and your partner and the rest of your families. If you can and you want to, forget about smart glasses, they really aren't important - right now or at all.
I don't have a god, but you have all my best wishes.
Echoing what Lottie said Porsche
Take care of your family and self most importantly. Smart gadgetS and other technologies can be put on the back burner for now. Wishing you all the best
Re: Portia
@Lottie,
Thank you for the well-wishes.
The most hardest part is going to the meeting to decide what the hospital is going to do, possibly.
I definitely appreciate your words.
Portia.
Thank you.
@SSWFTW,
Thank you as well. It is much appreciated.
Luckily, my partner and I live with my mother, so she was able to get her to the hospital, and will be taking me to the meeting this week.
I appreciate your words very much, and am thankful for the support I do have.
Portia.