wraggster
August 4th, 2013, 17:45
http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2013/08/openglass-visually-impaired_620x340.jpgDapper Vision's OpenGlass project sees Google Glass' (http://www.engadget.com/2013/04/30/google-glass-review/) camera as useful for more than just hands-free pictures -- it's a tool for interpreting the world around us. To show that potential, the two-person group has tested two of its Glass apps with visually impaired wearers. The first, Question-Answer, lets the poor-sighted ask both Mechanical Turk (http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/17/belkin-rep-hiring-folks-to-write-fake-reviews-on-amazon/)and Twitter for help in identifying objects. Memento, in turn, automatically recites notes when the user looks at a recognizable scene; it can warn users about dangerous equipment, for example. Dapper Vision tells us that the OpenGlass apps will stay in limited testing until Google lets developers offer Glassware (http://www.engadget.com/2013/07/02/google-posts-glass-faq/) to the general public, but the company isn't sitting still in the meantime. It's devising a way to reward Question-Answer contributors with BitCoins (http://www.engadget.com/2013/05/08/engadget-primed-bitcoin/), and it will demonstrate new Glass-basedaugmented reality (http://www.engadget.com/2013/06/06/meta-1-3d-augmented-reality-headset-hands-on/) software next week.
http://www.engadget.com/2013/08/02/dapper-vision-openglass/
http://www.engadget.com/2013/08/02/dapper-vision-openglass/