Can AI smart glasses make blind people more independent? - BBC News

Using AI-powered smart glasses can improve personal independence for visually impaired people, according to one blind user of the technology.
Stuart Beveridge, who is visually impaired and has been blind since birth, relies on his guide dog around the clock.
But since 2020, he has been using smart glasses with software which can take a photo and describe his surroundings. It can also connect him with loved ones who can access his video vision.
“I’m actually doing a lot more on my own,” Mr Beveridge said.
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Hopefully more tools will become available for vision impaired people. 🙏🙏

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As someone losing sight to a genetic disease this is amazing! Hopefully they will decrease the price so that more people (like myself) will be able to afford them.

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Here is an argument from economics: any tool that increases the independence of visually impaired people increases their ability to be economically productive and reduces the social costs of carign for or otherwise helping them. This is a compelling reason why the government should use tax-payer funds to provide such tools for free. The government should pay prices for such tools that give such producers a fair reward for their wonderful innovations but do not give them a blank cheque to charge any price they like.

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Extremely Positive use of AI 👍

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What a brilliant invention. Well done to the creators!!

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Wow! Early stage game changer! Going forward, it needs to be fused with the most recent powerful AI as a bridge until Musk's Neuralink is fully deployable tech. I love that new developments are helping those with impairments. More of this.

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Best video and news of the day. We should be hearing this from every news media outlet 🙏🏼

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If it's true that will be one of the most wonderful Discovery in human history. I know the pain & suffering of BLIND PEOPLES. For a long period of time my beloved MOM is suffering. Thanks everyone who trying their best to implement it REAL.

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That's why AI is changing our lives right now. Let's hope more helpful advances will come up in the short term.

[@tjsxav]

I understood everything he said 🙂

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This is absolutely fantastic great work. I can understand the immense potential of possibilities this will have from the camera helping the persons family see everything around the house to the daily walk and capacity to record in an instant without an offender even ever knowing they are being recorded. Even the hand movements to the glasses could be interpreted to just be a nervous reaction rather than distraction or recording. I can’t wait to see this being used and the future progress in this particular technology. I think war is outdated history has proven many times there’s nothing ever so fruitful than progressing human development. Why can’t we all work together in harmonious joyful efforts like this to further our existence rather endeavour to destroy our existence. 🤔🙏🏼

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great stuff hopefully one day we can cure blindness

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That's so cool!

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I have retinopathy; I volunteer to try them.

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[@4514rooster]

I had an idea the other day about creating a walking stick with laser range filters on it for blind people in braille could even shoot out 5 beams at once and display the different distances to all five fingers at once

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These technologies can't make difference unless they are affordable.

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Everything in these glasses you can get for free if you have an iphone. There are apps that do all this. Only difference you can't wear it on your face, but apart from that it's the same. Obviously iphone's aren't cheap either, but they do a ton of other useful stuff too.

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I think the EU ban for developing AI technology can impact this type of this awesome development. The future is AI

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Hopefully they can make a version with a Scottish accent instead of an American one

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Great innovation. Technology has been boon for our generation

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The beauty of science.

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Coming along!

[@ericchausse1701]

These glasses are great, but I foresee there being one major drawback, which is the high level of dependance that this device brings. For example, if someone needs to view an object from a distance or solve for an issue within their own home, they'll need to contact a live support agent, making their ability to rectify any issue contingent upon said agent providing visual guidance, and instead of the user independently fixing the issue themselves. Ironically, while this device may be extremely convenient, it does not solve the underlining issue, which is enabling the user to enhance their visual acuity, thereby making them more independent in the context that they don't need to rely on anyone to visually navigate the world around them. This is of course assuming those who wear such a device have some vision. If however, these individuals are completely blind, then this device would prove to be most helpful.

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I was looking for information on smart devices to assist a visually impaired person. Unfortunately this audio track is presented in English with a Scottish accent. That makes it pretty much inaccessible to most people who are not native English speakers. Perhaps it would be an idea to publish this useful video using someone else to speak the audio track?

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It's an great technology And it will be more helpful for the Visually Challenged persons like me. What is the fare of that glass?? Is it available in india?? Whether the glass can be used for Retinitis pigmentosa RP it's an genetic problem Heredity. Is this glass will be effective for RP?? Bcz I'm in Deep trouble with my eyesight so someone please tell me. Thank you

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It is not yet available in India yet my friend, but in a few years smart glasses will be available soon and maybe one of us will be able to make apps that help blind people see

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Massive

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I was thinking to built something like this and I thought let me first check if someone has built it already... And I found this video😅 Btw its a great innovation..

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Engineers are gods.

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If I ever need these then I want them to send a loud warning any time I'm within 100 feet of elon musk. Otherwise this is fabulous technology and helpful in spite of musk's influence - if any at all.

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The tech was invented by the Americans. Hardly a peaceful country.

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How do u get this

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I’ve no idea wth he’s saying..

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Turn on subtitles.

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Get a hearing aid

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You know if Jeff Bezos went blind they'd be coming up with solutions REAL FAST.

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Scottish maybe

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Glasgow

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Has Ray-Ban or a new of the makes developed software😢

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What happens when internet and power go down

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Yup but look to the brain interface chips instead. Theyre well into working stage now. We've had 128input brain to pc interfaces since the 90's (external sensors), but the new tech is amazing. They can record thoughts, read data from the optical nerves, apply data to the optical nerves, record images from dreams (that was about 5-10years ago already). The u.s. a few years ago connected a team of soldiers together. They shared emotional/reactionary responses. So if one saw something dangerous and the body reacts, the others all get fed some stimulus so they could react instantly as one soldier almost. And theres that guy who recently got his eyeballs connected to his brain again using a chip and wifi to bypass the non functioning nerves. Very basic vision but he got his sight back. Why use a.i. Glasses that are more costly to build? The chips are easily implanted or can be used externally. If you go full tech power im sure they could be msde small enough to be injected even. Linking directly to brain function is the way forward, ultra low cost. I see some university released a controller system that uses brainwaves recently...but then i saw that already in the 90's. I think you can still buy the 64command version, hell it was sold as a game controller and disability aid. The university level one a few years before designed for deisabled people to use computers was even more advanced, it just lacked the tidy interface, which we now have various options for including external. Its the brainwave encoding and decoding data thats important and that should be more than usable right now. If nobody tries to hide it away. The tech is here. (Btw unemployed bbc, if you need a decent tech researcher that isnt decades behind 👍😅)

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Hardware is good enough and small enough that the real limitation is software which is awesome. I could totally see in the future where the blind could have tech to actually make them “see” better than us normies.

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[@scottlink183]

It’s a rip off of the MyEye2 device for the visually impaired. Not cool. Not cool at all.

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My totally blind husband tried Orcam glasses. He returned them because they did not work for him. But they might work for low vision folks.

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They are very costly.

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@@LMNevada You can get all this same tech for free on a phone. You just can't wear it on your face.

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[@krazytroutcatcher]

Probably a good thing for some people, but not all. Apparently the brain of some blind people cannot process sight, when sight has been surgically restored. Anyone remember the man in the 1950’s, who had his sight restored, then left his wife because she was so ugly?

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I heard they found him with his testicles where his eyes should have been.

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Lmao I could see this happening but Jesus, she put up with him when he was crippled. He can do the same for her ugliness lol

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Its possible to take video and images from a cats head so the opposite should be possible to put an image or video into some ones head. The problem is that unlike a cat where the minds eye is right next to the top of the Skull, a human has a substantial amount of brain matter so a device would need to go up the nose or drilled into the top of the head down above the pineal gland, and obviously they haven't figured out how to do it.

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I'm excited for the vision impaired population. I'm extremely worried about privacy for everyone that goes near a pair of these.

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Another phase in the development of humans and machines being incorporated to become 1entity 😁

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