Featured Image Credit: YouTube/XRAI Glass
Topics: Technology, Science, Health
Niamh Shackleton
People have been left amazed after seeing how a pair of high-tech glasses work.
As of 2021, there was said to be around 11 million US citizens who considered themselves as deaf or had serious hearing difficulties.
Despite these figures, only 250,000 to 500,000 people know American Sign Language (ASL), making things increasingly difficult for those who have hearing difficulties and can't lip read.
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But with the help of a pair of innovative glasses, it looks like this won't be an issue anymore.
XRAI Glass has created something known as AR Glasses, which allows those wearing them to visually see conversations.
How, I hear you ask? The glasses provide subtitles for people to read instead.
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A video demonstrating this shows just how it works and it's pretty amazing.
Chatting to one deaf person who has used them, he labelled the technology as 'powerful'.
"It's powerful," he raved. "The power and the importance of people who are hard of hearing all over the world [and] to feel like they don't solely have to rely on lip reading anymore is a really big moment."
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The CEO of XRAI was inspired by his own grandfather who was hard of hearing and when he saw him watching TV with subtitles, he asked the question of why we couldn't subtitle the world too.
But the glasses' amazingness doesn't stop there - they're also capable for translating conversations meaning if you were in a different country that the glasses would translate local dialect into your chosen language.
For the tech to work, you need to connect your glasses to an app on your cell phone. While the app is free for its standard version, the glasses themselves will set you back as much as £449.00 ($354.00) depending on the type you want.
The ground-breaking specs have been discussed on Reddit of late and it's safe to say that people are impressed.
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"Great innovation this. Keep making the tech smaller and this is something for the future," one person wrote.
"These are awesome," said another, as a third went on: "The first wearable tech I'd ever even consider. I'm losing my hearing rapidly, and I'm not sure everyday use of hearing aids suits me."
People who have used the glasses for themselves have raved about them, with one saying they were 'astonished' when they first put them on.
Someone else who lip reads hailed them has a 'game-changer' during the pandemic in particular when everyone was wearing face masks.