Finally, Smart Glasses With a Use Case That Isn’t Icky
In a market overwhelmed by glasses looking to record your entire life, Nuance Audio’s latest smart glasses could be an excellent use case for how smart glasses could actually be perfect for accessibility. The company—which is a subset of EssilorLuxottica, Meta’s partner for its Ray-Ban smart glasses—just announced the Nuance Audio Plus, a pair of frames that includes FDA-cleared hearing aids in its arms. At $829, the Nuance Audio Plus are certainly more of an investment than your typical smart glasses (the Meta Ray-Ban Gen 2 are less than half that price).
- ▪In a market overwhelmed by glasses looking to record your entire life, Nuance Audio’s latest smart glasses could be an excellent use case for how smart glasses could actually be perfect for accessibility.
- ▪The company—which is a subset of EssilorLuxottica, Meta’s partner for its Ray-Ban smart glasses—just announced the Nuance Audio Plus, a pair of frames that includes FDA-cleared hearing aids in its arms.
- ▪At $829, the Nuance Audio Plus are certainly more of an investment than your typical smart glasses (the Meta Ray-Ban Gen 2 are less than half that price).
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In a market overwhelmed by glasses looking to record your entire life, Nuance Audio’s latest smart glasses could be an excellent use case for how smart glasses could actually be perfect for accessibility. The company—which is a subset of EssilorLuxottica, Meta’s partner for its Ray-Ban smart glasses—just announced the Nuance Audio Plus, a pair of frames that includes FDA-cleared hearing aids in its arms. At $829, the Nuance Audio Plus are certainly more of an investment than your typical smart glasses (the Meta Ray-Ban Gen 2 are less than half that price). But they’re not meant to be for everyone; these are specifically targeted at those with mild to moderate hearing loss. The hearing aid mechanism is really packed in tight to the frame’s arm.
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