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Smart Glasses with display - but will they fit properly?

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So more and more smart glasses are coming out with dual display, which should benefit those who want to read text captioning/transcription/translation, etc. All good if you’re severely hearing-impaired and need help understanding what others are saying. But I seriously wonder about the fit of Smart glasses (temple arms) when someone is also wearing aids. I know this is a minor issue for those who use aids in the ear canal, and might not even want Smart Glasses. With that said, how would these large glass frame arms and temple tips fit over BTE aids, without falling off? Even if they don’t fall off, would they be comfortable to wear for say six to eight hours plus? What a nightmare if someone goes through all the hoops to order prescription Smart Glasses and pay $800 plus, just to have glasses fall off every time you drop your head, pick something up, or move your head sideways. Due to poor ear fit because of BTE aids.

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I’ve had a couple of the CC Glasses and have had no problem with them interfering with my hearing aids over my ears. Currently using the AirCaps. They work good offline. Only negative so far is the short battery time.

In reply to @Raudrive

Now sure where you’re coming from? No one is posting much on smart glasses here. Last I checked HT had several articles on smart glasses, such as

Hearing Glasses: Smart Glasses for Better Listening and Communication1

Modern smart glasses feature novel hearing and captioning solutions. Discover the best hearing aid glasses for your eyes and ears.

and

AR Live Captioning Glasses Review: Real-time AI Transcriptions4

Compare live captioning glasses, including XRAI, XanderGlasses, TranscribeGlass, Captify, and Meta Ray-Ban Display for real-time speech-to-text.

Lastly, if you don’t care for a post, you don’t have to read it.

@testing123 said:

Now sure where you’re coming from? No one is posting much on smart glasses here.

My point is you are the one that always brings up smart glasses which really has nothing to do with hearing aids and most members. That’s why you don’t see any posts on smart glasses here. It appears to be hustling sales or a product. Are you affiliated with smart glasses? If you are not, my apologies.

Thanks for raising this. I’m really interested in learning about other people’s experiences in this area. I have many clients who have and hearing aids don’t help enough but they aren’t candidates. However their vision is often fine and real-time closed captioning would make their lives much easier. The more feedback I can get from actual users of smart glasses and hearing aids the more informed I’ll be and the better the recommendations I can make.

@Raudrive said:

I still feel like smart glasses has no place on this forum.

So much negativism. And you completely ignore the fact that HT has posted several articles/links on Smart Glasses and caption transcription. Seems you’re cutting off your nose to spite your face.

I agree- as a hearing-impaired I am very much interested in anything that involves subtitles, use them whenever I can. Also, I haven’t seen any specific smart-glass model being promoted here. But the topic of combining glasses and was recently (and extensively) discussed in another thread.

As for smartglasses- I just don’t think the technology is there yet, not interested at all at the moment. Maybe can help one day getting this right.

@charlottejames25 said:

I read your pros and cons of even realities and it was extremely helpful

I was wondering if you could do the same for Aircaps please?

Be glad to. Here’s some of my thoughts on the AirCaps:

  1. Looks: clunky. Looks better with the clip-on sunglasses I bought at Walmart. Also easier to see the display in bright situations. But must try the sunglasses on in the store, as the glasses frame is very thick where they clip on. With both glasses and sunglasses on, a bit heavy but okay.
  2. Worked very well while in the dentist’s chair! Also in the car. I could drive and also carry on a conversation.
  3. I mostly use them offline, and they work well. Still need the phone close by.
  4. In table conversations I get the double vision display. I talked to their reps about that and they said they are made for longer distance viewing. So you have to focus past the persons you are talking to.
  5. Battery: For me they’ve been lasting 2 hours. I turned down the brightness and that helped some. I have ordered the extra batteries and we’ll see how that goes. Since there are the only CC glasses I’ve found that work offline, I’m hanging on to them. I would love to find some that are smaller, longer battery, and work offline. Maybe next year. I did tell the AirCaps reps that it would be nice to have the time and sounds showing.

In reply to @Raudrive

This is an interesting take, when the poster has clearly raised hearing aid relevant points like the fit of the glasses with aids as well as closed captioning. I’m personally happy to see someone positng about this because I myself have concerns about wearing glasses with Cochlears; they never sit well together for me.

The only good news regarding this topic is that Meta (for now) requires a pre-visit/test of their display glasses before purchasing. So before ordering you have to physical visit a Meta distributor and test the goods. For everyone else and especially display glasses made overseas its a roll of the dice to find out (1) if glasses work as advertised and (2) if they fit properly. I seriously doubt there is any glasses manufacturer that factors in frame fit for those who wear aids or have a . And believe me its those two groups (people with severe/profound loss and CI users) who are seriously considering buying future display smart glasses.

@charlottejames25 said:

Do you think you will keep these?

Did you try the captify ones too? If so, look forward to your thoughts!

Yes, I decided to keep them. I haven’t tried Captify, as they don’t work offline. So these are it for now.

Q about the G2. I understand that there are other operating systems for those glasses. I don’t know how hard it is to do that, but I wonder if that OS has the option of just using the phone, versus a live internet connection. There was a guy discussing it, but I don’t know what it’s called or what to search for.

Edit: Found this on Reddit via google: Yes, you can use the Even Realities G2 for offline captions, but only if you use the MentraOS alternative software.

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