Sight Assist started with one person: a friend with low vision who tried the glasses Meta sells and found a general assistant where they needed a reading aid. The app gives them fast, private, spoken answers about what is in front of them: labels, scenes, hazards, people they have enrolled, and places they return to. Mentra Live provides the forward camera and speaker; iPhone or Mac runs on-device Apple Vision and speaks results through the glasses or Bluetooth audio.
The product is a calm, trustworthy narrator: speaks only when useful, leads with safety, hedges identity, and never blocks speech to file away memory. No Mentra cloud, app store, or account is required for core value.
It is an assistive companion on real hardware, in their hands through TestFlight. Sighted helpers use the screens for setup and to review the history. Every outcome is designed to be heard first.
Outcomes.
Intent
Hands-free reading and orientation for blind and low-vision Mentra Live users: audio-first, privacy-default, honest about uncertainty.
Shipped
Label read, scene describe, known people, area memory, walk mode v1: TestFlight on Mentra Live.
Constraint
Not a cane replacement. Safety-first speech. Memory after the answer, never before.
In flight
Queryable space maps, walk mode v2, continuous label scanning, helper workflows.