LookTel Introduces a new way to help the blind
Taking a page from their novel video conferencing technology, iVisit spins off their technology to start a new service called LookTel which helps the visually impaired community identify and recognize objects, landmarks, tags, and text.
Doing all of this using video, the blind user can identify objects in real time instead of having to take photos and making sure they aim right. When I talked to the CEO about this, Orang Dialameh said “Using video was important to grab as many frames as possible to capture a good image for fast recognition.” Asking how this was done quickly over a phone, he said “it’s done by pairing the phone and connecting to a remote computer acting as the base station which helps aid in the processing of the image for recognition by using our ivisit video streaming solution”
Definitely a cool app that combines the needs of many features into one convenient application with built in accessibility
Here’s a video of the demo. To see them in action, visit their website at http://www.looktel.com