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Welcome back everyone to another fantastic episode of Tech Connect! By now, it is no surprise that the Meta Glasses have made a great difference in the lives of many folks all around the world, including many of our own clients.

On this channel we have demonstrated how these Smart Glasses can be used alongside Meta AI to summarize your environment, ask follow up questions and much more. But all that only works when your Meta Glasses are functioning properly. What about when they encounter a problem? Have no fear, no need to throw out your Meta because Tech Connect is here to help you troubleshoot!

Like all technology, sometimes the solution is simple! But don't worry, we won't stop at telling you to turn it off and on again. In today's video we cover how to perform a factory reset, enable advanced microphone settings, bypass wear detection and much more!

So get ready to follow along during these troubleshooting demonstrations with your favorite Assistive Technology Specialist: Luke!

We have covered the Meta Glasses in previous videos. If you're new to Meta, check out those videos for summary of what they can do for you!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5w3r7yCBGeM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aftNVwt83NQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WchQ6kb8V0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5Lugpgj5JM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQTIsLVCB8w

0:00 Start
0:15 Introduction
1:00 Closing and Opening the Glasses Fixes many Pairing Issues
1:35 Restart your Glasses by Sliding the Power Button while Holding Capture Button
2:45 Factory Reset of your Meta Glasses unpairs your phone
4:15 BE CAREFUL NOT TO ACCIDENTALLY DELETE ALL YOUR CAPTURES
4:30 They Can't hear your voice? Increase Gain via Settings, Microphone Troubleshooting
6:00 Disable Wear Detection if the Meta Glasses don't know you are wearing them!
7:24 Wrap Up Review
8:00 End
8:10 Goofs

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Transcript
00:01Hey Meta! What's 10 divided by zero?
00:16Hello and welcome back to another exciting episode of TechConnect.
00:20Now we all know and love the Ray-Ban Metaglasses.
00:23They have been really helpful for our community and allow people to do many things,
00:27including reading, identifying objects and more.
00:30And of course, you can see some of those things in our previous videos on the Metaglasses.
00:34But what happens when your Metaglasses go bad?
00:38That's right, they just stop working. They're not doing what you want them to do.
00:42Well, luckily, there are some troubleshooting tips that we can try.
00:45And in this video, we thought we'd take a look at some of those
00:47and see whether we can get your Metaglasses working again.
00:51So without further ado, let's jump in and see what to do when Meta goes bad.
00:58Okay, tip number one. It is the simplest but often is very effective.
01:02And this is simply closing the arms of the glasses and then opening them again.
01:07Very simple, but doing this will basically kind of disconnect the glasses from your phone.
01:11And then when you reopen the arms of the glasses, it will reconnect the glasses to your phone.
01:15And this often fixes any pairing issues.
01:18And so if your glasses just were not responding, then oftentimes this will do the trick.
01:23So definitely the first place to start. See if this fixes your issue.
01:26And if not, well, let's go ahead and look at number two.
01:33All right, tip number two if the last one didn't work.
01:36And this is going to involve the power button.
01:38Now the power button can be found as part of the left hinge on the inside of the glasses.
01:44And it's a circular button. Now this button, if it is slid to the left, that would mean that the
01:50glasses are actually completely turned off and won't respond to anything.
01:53So one thing to check is that that power switch is not slid to the left.
01:56If it is slid to the right, that means the glasses should be on.
01:59But if they're not working, what we can try and do is go ahead and turn off that power switch.
02:04So sliding it to the left.
02:06And then if we hold down the capture button, which is on top of the right side.
02:11And while we're holding that down, slide back on the power and keep the capture button held down for a
02:17few seconds.
02:21And then we can let go of the capture button.
02:23And this should basically kind of do a restart on the glasses.
02:28And hopefully that would fix any issues which you might have been having.
02:31So this is the next thing to try. Give it a try. See if it works.
02:35And if not, well, let's jump in to the next tip and take a look.
02:42Tip number three. And this one is a doozy. I've used this one many times myself.
02:47Tip number three is a factory reset on the glasses.
02:50Now, you do have to be aware that this is going to unpair the glasses from your phone,
02:54which means that you would have to go through the setup procedure again through the app.
02:58Once you have done this to get the glasses paired with your phone.
03:02So this is really only if you really have to do this, would you want to do this?
03:05But yeah, it definitely might be the case that the glasses just don't seem to be working.
03:09And this is a good troubleshooting step.
03:11So how do we do it? Well, first of all, we're going to take the glasses
03:15and we're going to fold in the right side.
03:18So the right side is closed and the left side is open.
03:21And then we're going to find that capture button on top of the right side.
03:25And we're going to press it five times. Yes, that's right. Five times.
03:28Let's count them. One, two, three, four, five.
03:31And the light, the LED light that is just underneath the right side will start glowing orange.
03:39And then we're going to hold down that capture button for a few seconds.
03:43And that orange light is going to change and it's going to become a flashing white light.
03:48This would start flashing between white and amber.
03:51And then after maybe 30 seconds, then it would start to flash blue.
03:55Now, the flashing blue is what we're looking for because that indicates that the glasses have gone back into Bluetooth
04:01pairing mode.
04:02And that means that they have factory reset and that they are ready to be paired to the phone again.
04:07So as long as you get to this flashing blue stage, you can go ahead and go into the app
04:11and set the glasses up again as you did when you initially got them.
04:15Now, do bear in mind this is going to delete all of your captures, all of your videos and everything.
04:19So this is like a completely fresh start, but it will often fix issues.
04:24So hopefully this tip will work.
04:26Give it a try and see how you get on.
04:30All right. Tip number four.
04:31Now, this one is a little bit different.
04:33This tip is related to what to do if other people can't hear you when you are on a phone
04:38call using your metaglasses.
04:40And this is this is going to be due to the microphone gain on the glasses and whether the glasses
04:46are touching the bridge of your nose when you're wearing them.
04:48So basically what you need to know is if people cannot hear you, well, there is a setting that we
04:53can change to fix that.
04:54So we're going to go ahead and open up the Meta AI app.
04:58We're going to make sure we tap on the glasses icon at the bottom right, and that should then show
05:02us a picture of our glasses.
05:04And at the bottom right of that picture, there is a settings cogwheel.
05:07We're going to go ahead and tap on that and that will put us into the settings for our metaglasses.
05:12Now, what we're going to do is scroll down and somewhere down toward kind of the bottom half of the
05:17list of settings, there is something called microphone troubleshooting.
05:21This is exactly what we want to do here.
05:23So we're going to tap on a microphone troubleshooting.
05:26There is only one option that we can do, and this is the option that you want.
05:31This is a little toggle switch that we can hit to turn on microphone adjustment.
05:36And once we have turned on that, the microphone gain is going to be changed.
05:40And so you should find that when you are talking to people on the phone with your metaglasses, they can
05:44now hear you very well.
05:46So if you are having trouble with this specific issue, this is the fix.
05:49Go ahead and try it.
05:50I think you will like the results.
05:55All right, it's time for the bonus round.
05:57That's right.
05:58This is tip number five, the secret tip.
06:00And this is to do with wear detection.
06:02So the metaglasses have a wear detection built in.
06:05This is a default mode.
06:06And what it means is when you put on the glasses, they know they are being worn and so they
06:11will turn on.
06:11But when you take them off, they know they've been taken off and they'll go to sleep to conserve them.
06:16Now, of course, this sounds like a great feature and it is for conserving battery.
06:20But I have had clients where when they put the glasses on, for some reason, the glasses don't know that
06:25they're being worn.
06:26And so they just won't work because they're still asleep.
06:29Obviously not an ideal situation.
06:30So what do we do?
06:32Well, luckily, it's pretty simple to fix.
06:34We will go into the Meta AI app and go to the settings.
06:38And once we are in the settings, we're going to go ahead and scroll down and we will get to
06:42something called wear detection.
06:43Now, this will be toggled on as per the default.
06:46But if we go ahead and hit the toggle switch, that's going to turn wear detection off.
06:51So what does this mean?
06:52Well, now, whenever we unfold the sides of the glasses, then the glasses are going to be on whether you're
06:58wearing them or not.
06:59So obviously this is going to be using battery.
07:01You have to bear this in mind.
07:02This will be using battery even if you're not wearing the glasses if the sides are open.
07:06But the nice thing is when you put them on, you know, they're going to be responsive because as long
07:10as the sides are open, they are operational and ready to go.
07:13So if you have been having trouble with this specific issue, go into your settings, change this and everything should
07:19be hunky dory.
07:23All right, that was the meta glasses and how to troubleshoot them.
07:26Now, hopefully some of these troubleshooting tips helped you.
07:29If none of them did, well, maybe your meta glasses are broken.
07:32You might want to seek a replacement pair.
07:34And this video talking of pairs, this video will pair very well with a previous video that we did.
07:39And hopefully that will be up in the cards.
07:41That video was this meta glasses trick changes everything or something like that anyway.
07:46And that will basically go through the settings and different things that you can change to make your meta glasses
07:50work well for you.
07:52But anyway, that was that. This was this. And that was this.
07:56And hopefully this video was helpful and we will look forward to seeing you in the next video.
08:01Goodbye for now.
08:10All right, guys, I'm glad that you've watched the whole video because I do have one secret little trick that
08:14I didn't want to tell the masses.
08:16Only those truly dedicated to the channel.
08:18If none of these tricks has helped your meta glasses, there is one more thing we can try.
08:22We're going to take the meta glasses, make sure you fold the sides so they're nice and secure.
08:27And then we're going to take them in one hand, doesn't matter which hand.
08:29And we're going to go ahead and throw them against the wall.
08:32That should do the trick.
08:34The bars and the blues and the bling bling bling bling.
08:38Very close.
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