So, Envision is doing this survey. It says to choose my country. I can't type U N to search ahead to United States. I can't hit the End key to move any nearer to it. So I closed the tab. I do not have time for AT companies that can't test any outgoing communications, or media, or surveys, or whatever, for accessibility.
“The crisis of corporatization has really reached a peak in emergency medicine.[..] During the pandemic, we had doctors getting pay cuts from these corporate entities and denying physicians due process, which is their right, when they spoke about patient safety. Your typical emergency physician is afraid to speak up for fear of termination.”
Last Nov, publishing got excellent news: the planned merger of #PenguinRandomHouse (the largest publisher in the history of human civilization) with its immediate competitor #SimonAndSchuster would not be permitted, thanks to the #FTC's deftly argued case against the deal:
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KKR took one of the nation's largest healthcare providers, #Envision, hostage to surprise billing, making it dependent on these fraudulent payments. When Congress finally acted to end this scam, KKR was able to take to the nation's editorial pages and damn Congress for recklessly endangering all the patients who relied on it:
Something I’ve been wondering about ever since Apple announced the Vision Pro is, what are the practical applications of it? I mean, don’t get me wrong. It’s super cool tech, and absolutely fantastic that they thought about accessibility as much as they did. But why should I use it? Things like immersive FaceTime calls with 3D audio is cool, but again, what are actual practical use cases for it outside of being something cool, new, and flashy? I’m genuinely asking, I’m sure there are some, I just don’t see them, as someone who’s never played with, or explored AR much. And I think this is something Apple will need to talk about, quite publicly, if they want average citizens to buy these things.
@ChocolatePie@TheQuinbox I think the glasses, in general, idea, is probably more stable than pointing your iPhone to whatever you want to look at, since you're wearing this thing on your face. I don't know much about the vision pro to comment, but I'm thinking, in general,glasses, such as the Orcam, #Envision, Google glass, etc.
There was a paper pinned on the wall in the lift at work today. I tapped my #Envision glasses to detect text on the paper. Turned out to be a concert ad, in Estonian. Since the Envision glasses do have GPT4, I told them to translate it into english, which they did. Asked the glasses for details about the venue and it described where the concert takes place, however was unable to tell me the address, since it wasn’t featured on the ad. Felt quite empowering. I know I can do most of those things via different apps on my phone, but it feels somewhat magical to just do it all by tapping and talking to your glasses.