Meta donates 1,000 Ray-Ban Meta AI glasses and $30,000 accessibility grant in Singapore
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Meta has donated 1,000 Ray-Ban Meta AI glasses to four Singapore organisations serving people with disabilities, along with a US$30,000 grant for accessibility training.
The recipients are the Singapore Association of the Visually Handicapped, Guide Dogs Singapore, the Singapore Disability Sports Council and Gardens by the Bay, according to Meta's announcement by Joel Kaplan, its Chief Global Affairs Officer.
Meta says the glasses help users who are blind or have low vision read text, identify objects and describe their surroundings. The grant will fund a free curriculum, developed and delivered by the Singapore Association of the Visually Handicapped, teaching visually impaired people to use the glasses safely and effectively in daily life.
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AIMeta is donating 1,000 Ray-Ban Meta AI glasses to four Singapore organisations serving people with disabilities, alongside a US$30,000 grant for accessibility training. The glasses help users who are blind or have low vision read text, identify objects and describe their surroundings. The grant will fund a free curriculum from the Singapore Association of the Visually Handicapped on using the glasses safely in daily life.
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