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.
I could get requiring a subscription for server based AI features, but they say they tested it in airplane mode and it worked because it’s on device, that’s seriously fucked. That should never have a limit.
The fun part is that even if you pay the $20/month subscription you can only use the feature that runs locally on your device up to 30 minutes a day