I am the perfect beta tester for this application. Currently wearing hearing aids and using Ray Ban Meta glasses with transition lenses. When will these become available? Please let me know, thank you!
I hope they can create a similar lightweight version for people with severe-to-profound hearing losses. Earmolds are terribly uncomfortable and it would be wonderful to hear with my ears open. I would be willing to pay whatever the cost is to have a more "comfortable" glasses-type hearing aid.
My Grandmother had a pair of glasses in the early 1970s that had a microphone in the front corner and a wire embedded in them sent sound to her hearing aid. It was like she was the Bionic Woman before her time. They just looked like regular women's cat eye glasses. I've always wondered why that technology was abandoned.
Given the cost of expensive glasses + hearing aids, the combo will present quite a challenge to the company to make the entire package cost effective. It is truly ironic that having a vision handicap is perfectly acceptable, but having a hearing handicap comes with a 'stigma' attached to it. Oh, the narrow mind.
Great interview. Very informative and engaging. It’s interesting to think about going back to the ideas of discrete hearing devices like in the 40’s when hearing loss was a much bigger stigma. The glasses certainly look stylish enough but i am not sure how well they would work for me. I would hope that invisibility would increase the adoption of hearing aid use for those currently not treating their hearing loss. I currently do not like the style of my eyeglasses so it will be interesting to be able to trial this in real life.
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I also see advantages to those of us who deal with ASD-1 (autism spectrum differences Level 1, formerly categorized as Asperger’s) because the enhanced directionality mitigates distracting MULTIPLE CONCURRENT (irrelevant) conversations that can sometimes compromise those with ASD-1. 👍🏼
I have so many questions, but I'll start with this: it sounds like this product will only work for people with mild to moderate hearing loss, so do you have plans to develop similar products for severe to profound loss? OTC hearing aids don't serve my needs, but I am just as interested in getting rid of the over-the-ear pieces that I can't stand wearing. Thanks.
Seems hard to imagine that a device that simply sits on top of the ear could ever match the performance of one that fits inside it, like a traditional hearing aid. I certainly see how the product could be of value to those with mild loss, vs nothing at all, but doubtful it would ever compete with the traditional aids that those with severe loss. Certainly they could create a version that does have an in-the-ear component, but seems that would mostly be beside the point. Alas.
Thank you - I appreciate your comments. I have ideas about that combination (in-the-ear + glasses) to address more severe losses, which I'd love to discuss with the developers at this company (or a competitor) if they're open to input from a product user. @@barryalanlevine
@@KATHYCURTISINK Yes, though on one hand, I was thinking that adding an earpiece to the glasses would be "beside the point" ... an alternate way of looking at it is that the added 'real estate' of the frame of the glasses potentially allows for more processing power and obviosuly more microphones placed in more places than behind the ear aids, so there may be some potential for them to work even better than traditional aids...with the right R&D...and with proper "best practices" programming from a skilled hearing care professional.
@@barryalanlevine Bingo. I know exactly what would work for me, and just need to connect with the right R&D peeps to see if it's possible. I don't think we're that far from what I'm envisioning, but then I'm not an engineer.
Honestly, i'm not sure how they even got 8 hours of battery life considering how slim the frames are. I suspect they will be able to increase this battery life as time goes on with better battery tech and optimization.
