TL;DR: you now need to pay a $20/month “meta premium” subscription to use a 100% offline feature that runs on your own malware-ridden smartglasses.
If you don’t subscribe, you can use the feature that is already included in the hardware that you already paid for 3 hours each month
The now-paywalled feature boosts the voice of the speaker in front of you, something that even low-end ANC earphones are doing now. 5 minutes of free usage per day is basically nothing.
Yeah, the art example and real time translation are already done with your phone. Having that in your face doesn’t sound appealing or necessary.
For the face blind I can understand and be sympathetic, but for me I wouldn’t want to have cameras on people constantly, or keep a database of people’s information that could be leaked/lost.
Managing a phone while using a wheelchair or other mobility assistance is not the easiest, so the HUD version would be an improvement. AR glasses or HUD glasses are imho some of the most promising hardware for accessability we got now so I really hope they (the glasses) will find a niche outside tech bro or stalking spaces
Yeah that’s a good reason. How do you interact with them them though? Cause if it is hands or voice commands I don’t think I see much benefit over having a phone mounted(things are already expensive and only getting more so).
If it is eye tracking for people who have issues interacting with a phone in other ways then, that would certainly be a huge leap forward for accessibility.
That’s going to be a tough battle. The tech bro douchebags have a pretty tight grip on it at the moment.