Thank you Vufine for sending us a review sample!

Google Glass is no more, but the concept was great.  The two things that killed Google Glass were its price and privacy concerns with the built-in camera functionality.  Vufine solves both of those problems but has some flaws of its own.  Unlike the Google Glass, the Vufine is not wireless and unless you want a cord in front of your face, you have to use it on your right eye.  The biggest advantage of the Vufine is its reasonable price of $149 which was 10% of the cost of Google Glass.  While the Google Glass looked better, it certainly wasn’t worth $1,500.

Vufine can be worn with glasses or with a headband if you want a techy Rambo look.  If you don’t wear prescription glasses, there’s a non-prescription pair included.  Sadly, the plastic frames aren’t of the highest quality and came with one temple/arm much looser than the other.  If you have wire-frame glasses, there’s a stabilizer to help secure the magnetic Vufine dock onto the thinner temple.

The Vufine is rather light, but it will weigh down your glasses a bit.  The docking station is seven grams and the Vufine is twenty-six grams.  Some of that weight is from the built-in battery that lasts about ninety minutes and takes the same amount of time to fully charge the unit.  You can use the device while it’s charging.  What’s one more wire, right?

Since the Vufine does not have an operating system of its own, it’s setup through the device it’s plugged into as a secondary display.  It worked flawlessly with my laptop and I was able to set it as a secondary monitor and set the resolution to 1280 X 720 (default), 1176 X 664, or 800 X 600.  The Vufine's screen appears to be 4:3, but because of the 720 resolution it cuts off a little bit.