What benefit to people will these smart glasses be if the person concerned has 20/20 vision?
(20/20 vision is perfect vision)
They don’t need these corrective new smart glasses but they have severe profound hearing loss, with WRS in the low 20’s?
If you have 20/20 vision you just get clear lenses or transition lenses (which are cheaper than prescription) and read live captioning texting with who ever you are talking with. Don’t know about you but I rather be looking at someone while I’m talking with AR glasses versus reading some app on my phone that displays text conversation. People are now wearing Meta glasses with 20/20 vision for all the bugs and whistles.
To be clear, you don’t have a CI, but I do. And you’re telling me I “cannot enjoy nor hear music clearly”. Even though I listen to music daily. Just listened to Jason Isbell this morning, I’ve got Kelsea Ballerini next. And then my daily dose of the Dead after that.
But okay, I cannot enjoy music. You got it boss.
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Good for. you. But I’ll go with what ear specials say along with current research. Which backs my earlier statement. PhD’s say the following. -
Cochlear implants restore speech perception in quiet but they also eliminate or distort many acoustic cues that are important for music enjoyment. Unfortunately, quantifying music enjoyment by CI users has been difficult because comparisons must rely on their recollection of music before they lost their hearing.
But glad you enjoy music. Cheers
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XanderGlasses are $5,000 in February 2025, so I wouldn’t bet on $1,000 within a few years.
Voice recorders that transcribe to a handheld screen in real time are already available for a couple of hundred dollars. I’m guessing the advantage of the glasses is supposed to be that you can constantly stay at eye level? That’s a very big premium to pay, particularly as the XanderGlasses are still very clearly an assistive device (it doesn’t just look like you’re wearing glasses, if that’s a concern for some people). What other advantages are there?
I think one reason for not delaying CI by using captioning is that as you spend longer and longer with little to no hearing, you lose more and more ability to process sound into speech.
I think the glasses may become more affordable and less clunky as time goes on for sure.
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