Every Sunday, David Zucker rents a basketball court at a gym in New York City to play a pickup game with a few of his friends. In late 2024, he became one of the first people he knew to own a pair of Meta smart glasses. He loved them because the tech-loaded eyewear let him film his pickup games to share with friends on social media. But he liked them for another reason: they helped him navigate a world built for people with better vision than his. Download the Straight Arrow app today to get the stories that matter free from manipulation, bias or agenda.™ Point phone camera here Zucker was born with oculocutaneous albinism type 2, one of the most common forms of albinism, which qualifies him as legally blind. “I don’t drive. I have a disabled state ID. So, kind of in that weird middle space of I’m not blind, but I’m not fully sighted,” Zucker told Straight Arrow. He would often edit the video he captured with his glasses to show “What it’s like for me to exist normally versus here’s what it’s like to exist with this product,” he said. No one batted an eye when they saw him wearing his smart glasses. Most people even thought they were really cool — that was until recently. By April, the narrative about smart glasses among news outlets and social media began to change. What people once saw as a cool new gadget quickly became a potentially dangerous one that could film people without their knowledge. Even The Guardian used the phrase “pervert glasses in a headline. Zucker is one of a growing number of blind or people with low vision who use smart glasses as a functional tool. From reading menus and identifying products to navigating hands-free,