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Apple unveiled a slate of accessibility upgrades ahead of WWDC for Global Accessibility Awareness Day—and, tucked inside, a glimpse of our cyborg future.

A forthcoming Zoom update on visionOS lets users magnify their surroundings. It’s a simple but potent trick, useful for people with impaired or perfect vision alike. I already whip out my iPhone camera as my bionic eyes to decipher café menus; having that baked into visionOS is the obvious next step.

Apple also previewed “Live Recognition,” an on-device model that describes your scene, spots objects, and reads documents aloud. It’s what Visual Intelligence in iOS 18 could have been—a real-time layer more like Gemini on Android XR.

Why does this matter? Because AR + AI = superpowers. Think crystal-clear vision from thousands of feet away or the ability to see wavelengths beyond the visible spectrum.

I used to shudder at the camera-eyed cyborgs of Cyberpunk 2077. Swapping healthy eyeballs for silicon still feels dystopian—but the gap between fiction and reality is shrinking alarmingly fast.

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Cosmo