Meta Ray-Ban for the Deaf-Blind and WeWalk questions.

By feofil, 5 May, 2025

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Hello,

I gave the glasses a try this past January. However, the trial was not successful. My hearing loss is such that I was not able to hear the audio from the glasses even with my hearing aids. In order for me to hear something, it must be channeled to my FM transmitter in order for it to be amplified enough for me to hear it. We are talking extreme amplification here. Also, the speakers do not use a coil so that my hearing aids can pick up the audio using tele-coil mode.

I understand that there is a new generation of glasses out there, and I am wondering if there is a way to have the audio from the glasses sent to the iPhone rather than from the iPhone to the glasses. And I am also wondering if the WeWalkcane can transmit its audio to the iPhone. It seems that this is indeed possible. However, there is a description of a feature where the ray-ban and the WeWalk cane can be paired and the audio sent somewhere. It is not clear to me whether I can direct the audio to my iPhone, or if the audio is simply sent to the glasses.

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By Icosa on Monday, May 5, 2025 - 08:11

My understanding is the WeWalk app is sending the audio to the glasses in their function as a bluetooth device. If you can find a way to connect bluetooth to your hearing aids, or if there's another model of hearing aid which meets your needs and supports bluetooth, this might be possible. For the glasses I'm not aware of a way to reroute the audio but it's unfortunate there isn't an option for this use case.

By Scott Davert on Monday, May 5, 2025 - 14:02

Member of the AppleVis Editorial Team

HI.
The answer regarding routing Meta glasses audio to your hearing aids through the phone is bad news, or at least, it has been for me. While it was true that at one time you could set your audio through the control center to come through whatever device you wanted, those days are over. It's been my experience that the Meta glasses will take over your device audio and route it all to the glasses. No idea about WeWalk et, but I may have a better one after I see it next week. Sorry for the disappointing news, but it's better to find out now than dumping money into something only to find it doesn't fit your needs.

By feofil on Monday, May 5, 2025 - 19:09

The current slate of hearing aids that support bluetooth connectivity simply do not have the amplification power I need. So that is also a no go for me.