• moldy_rice@piefed.keyboardvagabond.com
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    23 days ago

    Visual impairment. There was a story from like 30 years ago where a guy had some glasses device surgically attached to his skull which used a camera to help him see

    They tried to force him to remove it, and it was a huge controversy

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      23 days ago

      There’s a difference between medical devices and spy cameras, though: Meta’s glasses do nothing for visual impairment beyond what any regular eyeglasses could do, and – as far as I know – they don’t offer any other health benefits. They’re at best an expensive toy, and at worst, a major violation of public trust.

      • kkj@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        21 days ago

        Medical glasses are probably absurdly expensive, though. If you can jury-rig pervert glasses to work, you might save thousands (much like people who use AirPods as hearing aids; they probably aren’t as good, but good hearing aids can be 10x or more the price, and we live in a capitalist hellscape where that’s an obstacle).