• matlag@sh.itjust.works
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      2 hours ago

      Well, actually deaf people would have a real use of this device, with the glasses giving them realtime visual clues of surrounding noise and voices, may be even realtime transcriptions?

      Smartglasses without a camera would be useful to them.

        • emeralddawn45@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          17 minutes ago

          Of course they have a display, what the hell do you think would be the point of them otherwise? Theyre still fucking dumb, but they’d be even more dumb if they were JUST cameras. Those have also already existed for ages. I remember seeing ‘spy camera glasses’ on Chinese reseller sites like dealextreme way back in like 2012.

      • LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world
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        2 hours ago

        Dont know the breakdown of deaf people, but some people are also helped by all these ear/head sets that use reverberations on the bone.

        The type of hearing loss would depict whether or not they can be used. (Basically if the internal ear still functions, reverb works, if outside and inside doesn’t work, it won’t help)