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That's great. Being in the same shoes I wanted to try it, unfortunately I get "Sorry, something went wrong. Please try again." error.

I remember building my own track ir with ir leds and a floppy in front of an old webcam. This was more than a decade ago, but I would have assumed there is no more demand for this since VR headsets are a thing(I completely left gaming and everything about it since then). Anyway, great work!

Yes, I think for your use case they work fine. I also read a review from a father that watches his kids while listening to things on the OpenFit.

However, outside with noise, I find them unusable.

The difference is that the OpenFit are not bone conducting, they have speakers which sit over the entry of your ear. And I think that's the reason why they are not really working for me.

Maybe I should give the bone conducting ones a try.

No I didn't try them, I might check them out. thanks

I mean that at one point the surrounding sounds are louder than the music. Of course I could turn the music up, but at one point it's just too loud.

They are just speakers on top of the entry of your ear. So the music competes with the surrounding sounds.

I was expecting that the surrounding sounds blend in with the music instead of drowning it out. Like you can hear music coming out of a speaker while a car passes.

Shokz OpenFit ear phones. I bought them to be able to go running or cycling while listening to music and hear my surroundings. However it doesn't really work, because as soon as there is a little bit of noise around I can't hear the music anymore. A passing car, or a little bit of wind(which happens quite often on a bike) is enough to not hear anything that comes out of them.

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I work an app that lets me download and convert my plex music collection on my computer. I have a large collection that is mostly in flac. And I have a cheap mp3 player that I use for sports. However that mp3 player has only 8gb of storage, which is very little if filled with flac files. So with my app I can browse my music collection and select albums which then get downloaded and converted to mp3.

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I wish they would make a 5a version that is smaller and has lower specs and is therefore cheaper. I really like the idea of getting updates until 2031 and being able to just replace the battery.

It states IP55 in the specification, so don't take it for a dive.