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Revolutionizing Communication: How High-Tech Glasses Are Empowering The Deaf Community

An amazing app and glasses help deaf people read conversations   People have been left amazed after seeing how a pair of high-tech glasses work. As of 2021, there were around 11 million US citizens who considered themselves 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. 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. A video demonstrating this shows just how it works and it's pretty amazing. Chatting with one deaf person who has used them, he labeled the technology as 'powerful.' "It's powerful," he raved. "The power and the impo...