ActiveLook Sport Eyewear

This app paired with ENGO eyewear has brought about dramatic improvement in my 5K times, but it suffers from some serious shortcomings and computation errors. The best I can say for it is that it has great unrealized potential. The average rating of 2.2 stars is about right for the performance of this app as it stands today. The errors: When restarting from a pause, the app appears to use the last position before the pause as the new starting position. As a result, my first speed calculation after pause has been as high as 150km/h, and this severely impacts subsequent average speed calculations. It also makes the remainder of the plot less nuanced because it increases the scale of the plot. The post run parameter graphs don’t always appear. Normally, my speed and altitude plots are displayed when I save the data, but sometimes only the altitude plot showed up even though I had included both parameters in the eyewear display. The shortcomings: I would much prefer that the eyewear hand gesture be used to pause recording instead of switching between displays. I like to get exact elapsed times, and it is difficult and cumbersome to do this on the APP screen while running. Perhaps this could be made selectable so that people who want to use the hand gesture to scroll through screens won’t be inconvenienced. Make any data that is displayed on the screen available to plot. At present, I only get plots of speed and altitude after a run. I don’t get a heart rate plot or any other parameter plots which I would find very useful. Have a variable, selectable smoothing of the speed readout. Other devices I’ve had provide a moving average of a selectable number of speed samples. The instantaneous speed readout I have now is too noisy to be useful. Make all plotted data available for downloading or sharing. Presently only .gpx data is downloadable. Having all plotted parameters available for downloading would greatly increase the utility of this APP. I hope the programmers read this and make the app a better product.

I’m probably one of the early adopters of the ENGO 2. I’ve had them for years now. I use them for running and cycling. When they work, there’s one of the best pieces of tech out there. Not having to glance at my Apple Watch is a game changer. However, the Apple Watch is terrible. It loses connection often. Also, it may say connected and the timer will elapse but your run or event is not being recorded. I’ve lost distance and time due to having to start another recording session, etc. Very frustrating. Please fix the iPhone and Apple Watch app or let it work with other apps out there.

The latest app changes ActiveLook a lot, for the better. The new data field integration for Garmin still requires some attention to set up, but once it’s done, the connection is stable and the ability to customize your screens is huge. I set up screen 1 for hiit and screen two for recovery, and I can easily see just what I need to see while running. I didn’t expect it would make such a big difference, but using this app with Engo makes me more relaxed and confident because I don’t need to slow down all the time to check my wrist. Didn’t realize I was training with some low level anxiety- now it’s gone. This is an example of how a little thing makes a big difference.