so we came down here to sandal rugby club in wakefield and she was too nervous to get out of the car. what if i miss things on the pitch? what if the coaches don't really understand that i'm deaf? or, what if the players don't really know how to react? after some encouragement, she came out, had a session, went really well. couple of years later, here i am, you know, being a professional rugby player. at exerter chiefs, we have a whole range of different players from all over the world, and there's one player called tricky who has a very thick irish accent. and even, you know, my hearing team—mates struggle to understand her sometimes, never mind the deaf person! and there were one time we was just having a conversation, we were making a joke saying, �*0h, if only you had live captions so that we could understand what you were saying'. and i kid you not, literally a couple of days later, i was scrolling through my phone on instagram and then the xrai glasses came up and i saw a reaction video. and i couldn't believe it — i messaged tricky, i was like, �*can you believe this, there's a

so we came down here to sandal rugby club in wakefield, and she was too nervous to get out of the caring'. and i kid you not, literally a couple of days later, i was scrolling through my phone on instagram and then the xrai glasses came up and i saw a reaction video. and i couldn't believe it — i messaged tricky, ! was like, "can you believe this, there's actually subtitle glasses!" it was quite surreal. you get through your life and it is a struggle on a daily basis, but you just crack on. suddenly, to have these glasses, where i'm speaking to someone, and not having to solely concentrate on lip reading, i was able to almost relax a little bit more and just see the subtitles come above me. there's loads of different functions, but the one i mainly use is obviously live captions. so how did you feel seeing me wear the xrai glasses for the first time? first time we tried them, it was quite emotional, really, because, you know, potentially it's a life—changing piece of tech for you to use. and in your sports side of things, fine margins is a big issue. so if it can just give you that ed