OpenGlass Project Makes Google Glass Useful for the Visually Impaired

Re-blogged from MedgadgetGoogle Glass may have been developed to transform the way people see the world around them, but thanks to Dapper Vision’s OpenGlass Project, one doesn’t even need to be able to see to experience the Silicon Valley tech giant’s new spectacles.Harnessing the power of Google Glass’ built-in camera, the cloud, and the “hive-mind”, visually impaired users will be able to know what’s in front of them. The system consists of two components: Question-Answer sends pictures taken by the user and uploads them to Amazon’s Mechanical Turk and Twitter for the public to help identify, and Memento takes video from Glass and uses image matching to identify objects from a database created with the help of seeing users. Information about what the Glass wearer “sees” is read aloud to the user via bone conduction speakers.Here’s a video that explains more about how it all works:

Source: Positive Technology Journal - August 7, 2013 Category: Technology Consultants Tags: Augmented/mixed reality Crowsourcing Wearable & mobile Source Type: blogs