Senedd Member Says Smart Glasses Help With Speeches in the Senedd (Welsh Parliament)

"mrpg" writes:

Senedd member says smart glasses help with speeches in the Senedd:

A Reform politician has said he was using smart glasses with an in-built autocue feature to help him make speeches in the Welsh Parliament.

Jason O'Connell said the technology had helped boost his confidence when speaking in the Senedd, and denied it risked misleading people into thinking he was speaking without notes.

"I'm delivering my words in the manner that I see fit," he told the BBC's Politics Wales programme .

But the Welsh Liberal Democrat leader called for the glasses to be banned from use in the Senedd, while a parliament spokesperson said a review was under way.

[...] The smart glasses have allowed O'Connell to make speeches by reading a digital script that appears on the lenses of his glasses.

The text scrolls as he speaks, and it can also be controlled via a ring on his finger.

The Member of the Senedd (MS) for the Pontypridd Cynon Merthyr constituency said he had been looking at ways to improve his oratory skills since being elected to the parliament in May.

He said: "One of the things I identified as a weakness of mine was that my head was down looking at my notes a lot, and I wanted to get away from that and these glasses enable me to do that."

Read more of this story at SoylentNews.