Meta's smartglasses could help vision impaired people

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The Meta AI smartglasses could help people with low or no vision, according to international researchers, who add that they're better for some tasks than others. The six authors acted as their own study participants, testing the glasses for accuracy when performing various daily tasks. They found the smartglasses could identify common objects with 99% accuracy, but were less accurate in discriminating colours, the directions of objects, or how many objects there were. For reading, they had the highest accuracy with children’s books and less accuracy with standard text and handwriting; in individual money identification, they were accurate with paper money but not with coins.

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conference: JAMA Ophthalmology

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Organisation/s: Thomas Jefferson University, USA

Funder: Support for this work was provided in part by the Jerry A Shields MD Eye Cancer Fund, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (Dr C. Shields) and the Eye Tumor Research Foundation, Philadelphia (Dr C. Shields).

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