TL;DR: you now need to pay a $20/month “meta premium” subscription to use a 100% offline feature that runs on your own malware-ridden smartglasses.
If you don’t subscribe, you can use the feature that is already included in the hardware that you already paid for 3 hours each month
The now-paywalled feature boosts the voice of the speaker in front of you, something that even low-end ANC earphones are doing now. 5 minutes of free usage per day is basically nothing.
Maybe they can occasionally block your view with ads to unlock this feature…
I love the idea behind this tech and it seems one of the more useful tech evolutions, but I’m aware this is a privacy nightmare…
I see regulation coming for these things very soon. Most people hate them.