Best Buy sent me a pair of the Meta Oakley HSTN smart glasses to test, so naturally I strapped them on and took the Juniper on a spontaneous trip to Tokyo Central in Costa Mesa with Abby and the boys. The whole outing became a gear test, a frunk demo, a Japanese grocery haul, and an unexpected audio glitch — all in one afternoon.
Filming POV With the Meta Glasses
The glasses record in 1080p, which is what I used. They can go higher but 4K drains the battery fast, so 1080p was the practical choice. The footage looks decent, but the biggest lesson learned: don’t move your head quickly. The wide-angle lens makes fast pans genuinely disorienting to watch back.
Coming from the Osmo Pocket where I control the frame by pointing the camera, wearing glasses as a camera is a different habit to build. I kept instinctively looking around too fast. Something to work on before the full review.
Tokyo Central Costa Mesa
The West Covina location is closer to home, but Abby wanted this one. Supposedly it’s bigger, and it is. Tokyo Central is the US brand for Don Quijote, one of our favorite stores from Japan. If you’ve been to Don Quijote in Japan you know what to expect — dense, chaotic, incredible.
Food haul included shrimp tempura, takoyaki, karaage chicken, yakisoba, and rice. They had a hot food area with microwaves, fresh onigiri, poke, handrolls, mochi, and an entire craft beer section with Sapporo Black, a Matcha Oni Cream Stout, and Dragon Ball drinks. $400 later, we were done.
One Thing the Meta Glasses Can’t Do
I tried using the translation feature inside the store to read Japanese labels. It doesn’t work — Japanese is not a supported language. The glasses currently support English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish. That’s it.
This will definitely be in the review. For anyone hoping to use these as a travel companion in Japan, that’s a hard limitation right now.
Auto Frunk in the Parking Lot
On the way back to the car with arms full of bags, the Hansshow Power Frunk got its moment. One tap on the app, frunk pops open, leftovers and grocery bags go in, zero fumbling with keys or a trunk. This is exactly why I installed it. Full install writeup is in the Hansshow Power Frunk post. Hansshow also has holiday discount codes active — check their site for current promos.
Trip Numbers
The Juniper ran the round trip at solid efficiency. 113.9 miles total, well within daily-driver range.
229.4 Wh/mi over 113.9 miles is right in line with what I’ve been seeing. For a deeper look at how the Juniper holds up over time, the 10,000-mile real-world efficiency test has the full numbers.
The Mystery Audio Glitch
On the drive home, while FSD was active, an alert popped up: “Audio system unavailable — Horn and/or chimes may not function.” I tested the horn immediately. It worked. The chime also fired normally. So it seems like a software false positive, but it’s one more gremlin to keep an eye on.
The rear door malfunction is already in the queue for service. Now this. The Juniper is running well but the gremlins have found it.
FSD V14.1.4 Notes
Running Standard mode and enjoying it more than earlier versions. It’s more aggressive about lane changes than before, but confident rather than erratic. I’m putting more miles on it and will have a proper breakdown soon — check the FSD V14 impressions post for context on where this version fits in.
If you’ve tried the Meta Glasses for POV content or have a Tokyo Central haul worth sharing, I’d love to hear about it.
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