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unless perhaps you need them for accessibility reasons.


There is no accessibility reason ever for covering up the light or recording. I will accept describing objects in FOV etc but nothing should be persistable or sent to a third party that trains on them and saves them without the consent of everyone in view, a company should build non-criminal glasses without these feature sets and have insurance pay for them.


> I will accept describing objects in FOV etc

What does covering the light has to do with the glasses in general?


Which accessibility reasons are these?


A camera and some rudimentary software should be a pretty good fix for color blindness. A camera and modern AI is a decent mitigation to partial or perhaps even complete blindness (prior art: Be My Eyes). A microphone, STT, and display would help with deafness.


They're fabulous for blind people. https://afb.org/aw/fall2025/meta-glasses-review


There is a short video on the BBC website of a blind person using them to give an audible warning of uneven pavement/sidewalks in front of them.


E.g. video to speech for a blind person.


Video doesn't do speech, that's audio.

So a microphone vs a camera


Video to speech is audible narration.




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