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  • Apple Vision Pro is already a win for Apple & consumers

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    I’m really interested in the prospects for use of the AVP by people who live with with disabilities, especially folks with major speech and motor chailenges — ALS, multiple sclerosis, high spinal cord injuries, and so on.  Eye gaze controls, voice to text, and other adaptations have the potential to lead to meaningful employment, education, authoring, and significant contributions to community.  

    In terms of the $2,600 price, I started out in the field when a full Dragon Dictate setup was > $20k and most augmentative and alternative communication devices were $5-7,000. This month, the AI-powered VoiceItt app broke through a barrier by gaining the capacity to translate individual *spontaneous* dysarthric speech into spoken English on the fly for a subscription price of fifty bucks a month, which wilk make it possible for many people with cerebral palsy, strokes, Down syndrome, and other speech challenges to be understood by everyone. Just watch. 


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  • Up close and hands on with Apple Vision Pro at Apple Park

    Mariner8Mariner8
    I’m mostly looking forward to seeing / helping to develop assistive tech for people with disabilities on this platform.  Eye-gaze controls and selection activation can be a godsend for people with motor control problems (please find a way to finalize a selection with something other than a hand gesture).  

    Selections-to-speech will be easy.  Selections-to environmental controls will be a cinch, and much more. 
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