[Electronics-Talk] Orcam

[Tracy Carcione]

I can do a lot of the same things with my phone, but the Orcam is
hands-free.
Tracy


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Sent: Saturday, October 27, 2018 11:51 AM
To: Tracy Carcione via Electronics-Talk
Cc: Matthew Chao
Subject: Re: [Electronics-Talk] Orcam

Pretty expensive, considering the fact that many apps on the iPhone can 
do what this camera does, for up to $4,500 LESS!  Free is good.  If this 
were the 90s, it would be cutting-edge, and perhaps worth it, depending 
on the NEED.  But in today's technology, I would have a hard time 
justifying the expense.  All that said, it's nice to know something like 
that is out there.  Just my thoughts.--Matthew Chao



On 10/27/2018 11:06 AM, Tracy Carcione via Electronics-Talk wrote:
> I saw the Orcam yesterday.  It was pretty nice.
> 
> Hold 2 fingers together, and that's about the length and width of the
> camera.  There used to be an extra processor, but now it's all in the
> camera.
> 
> It attaches to a magnet that can clip onto any pair of glasses, on either
> side, depending on which hand is dominant.  There's a ridge that runs
along
> the back of the camera that controls volume, and gives access to a menu
that
> controls other settings.  The camera can also synch with Bluetooth
> headphones.
> 
> You point at the thing you want the camera to read, and hold up your hand
> flat to pause it.  It read pretty well.  I had it read a very complicated
> menu.  It got a lot of one side, and not much of the other, but there was
a
> lot of curly script and stuff on that side.  It read the shiny brochure
the
> demonstrator had very well.
> 
> The demo person said it can read labels, price tags, signs . whatever.  We
> didn't have most of those things to try.  It read a box well.  A can, not
so
> much.  She said products we use often can be stored in memory, so it
> recognizes them quickly.  She also said, if you were in a grocery aisle
> looking at products, and it saw one that's in its memory, it would say it,
> and you could move around until you actually found it.
> 
> There's 2 versions of the Orcam.  They both do all the things I just said.
> 
> The fancier one, the Eye, also does color recognition.  That was pretty
> slow, compared to my Rainbow color detector.
> 
> It also recognizes faces.  It always recognized the demonstrator, and
would
> tell me when I looked in her direction.  We taught it to recognize Jerry,
> but it didn't recognize him so much.  There's a trick to teaching it, so
> maybe I did it wrong.  But, even when it didn't recognize him, it would
say
> "There's a man in front of you."
> 
>   
> 
> One or both models also read bar codes, but you have to point right at it,
> and that's just not happening.
> 
> The one that is mostly for reading is $3500, and the Eye that does it all
is
> $4500.
> 
> Tracy
> 
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