[Njtechdiv] Orcam

[Mario Brusco]

throwing my 2 cents in the discussion. it sounds like the Orcam doesn't 
need a smart phone to work.


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From: Andy via Njtechdiv [mailto:njtechdiv at nfbnet.org]
Sent: Saturday, Oct 27, 2018 11:18 AM EST
To: New Jersey Technology Division List
Cc: Andy; Discussion of accessible home electronics and appliances
Subject: [Njtechdiv] Orcam

Tracy, how does this differ from SeeingAI?  SeeingAI seems to be able to 
do most of this.  For instance, you can use its "Document" mode to read 
a menu, or perhaps the "Short Text" mode could be useful for this as 
well if you needed something specific.  I've used "Short Text," for 
instance, to read serial numbers, etc.

Similarly, there's also a "Person" mode, and "Color," etc.  It's also 
worth noting that SeeingAI is free for Android and iPhone users.



On Oct 27, 2018, at 11:06 AM, Tracy Carcione via Njtechdiv 
<njtechdiv at nfbnet.org> 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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