Envision Announces AI-Powered Smart Glasses For The Blind And Visually Impaired
Summary
Envision enables blind and low-vision users worldwide to read documents at work, recognize their friends, find personal belongings at home, and use public transport -- independently on their own. As the next step in the company’s evolution, Envision’s software will now be embedded in smart glasses, providing blind and visually impaired users with a significantly more unobtrusive and hands-free way to access the world around them. One of Envision’s Smart Glasses beta testers, Joy, said, “This kind of freedom is very invaluable, especially when you’re outside and have a cane or a guide dog in a hand already. “The level of support we’ve received from the Google Glass team has enabled us to replicate the fantastic user experience of the Envision app and deliver it in a seamless way that empowers blind and visually impaired people worldwide with a hands-free, easy way to ‘see’ the world around them through the spoken word.” The availability of Envision’s assistive technology embedded into smart glasses serves an important, timely need. The software can read all kinds of text in more than 60 languages, recognize faces, describe scenes, detect colors, find objects and so much more.
