Re:Be My Eyes’ AI assistant starts rolling out
by miki123211 on Wednesday September 27, 2023 @10:29AM
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I'm really disappointed with Envision, TBH.
It was one of the best apps out there for (instant) text recognition, and I was pretty happy to pay for it, but since it went free, it's really not the same. There's nothing else like the old Envision out there.
Also, not an issue for me personally, but dropping support for Cyrillic in the middle of a brutal war in Ukraine, in an automatic update released with no prior warning, was an asshole move if I ever saw one.
Re:Be My Eyes’ AI assistant starts rolling out
by unix_fan on Wednesday September 27, 2023 @11:18AM
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The main problem with the glasses, in my view, is the cost. It means those of us in developing countries cannot afford it, meaning its only available to a select few. This seems to be common for a lot of assistive technology solutions, even software.
I think without a major consumer product as a platform, it will never reach the number of people it wants to help. AS in example take what the iPhone did to the market of braille note takers.
I'm the Founder & CTO of Envision. We're building EXACTLY the product you're describing. Envision Glasses is a bunch of computer vision tools built on top of the Google Glass Enterprise Edition 2. We've more than 2000 visually impaired people, across the world, using the Glasses in more than 30 different langauges.
You can check out more informaion here: https://www.letsenvision.com/glasses
P.S: I know the EE2 has been discontinued but we've been working closely with Google to ensure current and future demand is met. We're also experimenting a lot with other exciting off-the-shelf glasses that I can't talk about here but I'm super excited for this whole glasses + AI space!