Latest AI-Powered Glasses Help Blind People Navigate the World With Ease

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Ally Solos Glasses (said with a British accent: "Soh-loss") are here, and they bring a big step up in the sophistication of the AI feature implementation—and they look nice, too!

These frames, the result of a collaboration between eyewear company Solos and vision assistance company Envision, are currently on a pre-order sale for $399 but will soon increase to their regular price of $699. This makes them significantly more expensive than previous models from Envision, but they're also sleeker, longer-lasting, and more powerful.

Visual assistance is one of those technology applications that will only affect the relatively small proportion of people who need it, but which is nonetheless of intrinsic interest to everyone. This sort of fundamental increase in a person's ...