Mom Who Is Blind Uses Meta Glasses To Give Herself New Level Of Independence | Happily TV

A mom who has been going blind for years is getting a fresh sense of freedom — thanks to Meta glasses that help her navigate daily life. Charlotte Sterling, 64, from Memphis, Tennessee, began losing her vision when she was 17 years old, having been diagnosed with Stargardt's disease. Later in life, when she was in her 50s, Charlotte also discovered that she had additional degenerative eye conditions, Retinitis Pigmentosa and Glaucoma, and so she can now only distinguish between light and dark and make out some objects. These three completely different eye conditions have left Charlotte barely able to see and will eventually lead to her going completely blind. Losing her vision slowly has been tough, Charlotte said, as even tasks that others might take for granted – "like simply making out a can of green beans in a grocery store" – are becoming impossible tasks. But Charlotte recently found a new hope in a pair of the Meta Gen 2 Skyler glasses, by Ray-Ban. The glasses' technology read out what Charlotte is looking at and describe the object in detail. This has allowed Charlotte, for the first time in decades, to visit the grocery store, hold an item in her hand, and have an awareness of what she is set to purchase. The 64-year-old's daughter, Kat Conner Sterling, was so impressed by how the glasses have given her mom a new level of independence, that she decided to record one of her mom's recent visits to the grocery store.