iVisit is showing off their SeeScan, an application runs on mobile phones that lets users to point and identify objects in real time. The app is useful for those who’re short-sighted or visually impaired, which they can make use of their mobile phones to point to an object and let the SeeScan app read out what the object is.
The SeeScan is one of the known augmented reality apps that have recently been developed by a number of mobile phone makers, such as Nokia. According to iVisit, there are approximately 11.4 million people with vision loss in the U.S, and 10% of them are legally blind. The SeeScan prototype has been tested with 30 visually impaired users
The SeeScan will mostly likely have a BETA version released later this year. The first version available will be for Windows Mobile smartphones, but versions for Symbian and iPhone are also in work. Take a look at the video below which shows the demo of the iVisit SeeScan.
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