[Electronics-Talk] Orcam

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Matthew Chao via Electronics-Talk" <electronics-talk at nfbnet.org>
To: "Tracy Carcione via Electronics-Talk" <electronics-talk at nfbnet.org>
Cc: "Matthew Chao" <mattchao at verizon.net>
Sent: Saturday, October 27, 2018 8:50 AM
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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