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<DIV>Hi Mario,</DIV>
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<DIV>When I posted, I did not mean to imply that the Orcam required an IPhone in
order to work. My intention was just to compare by price that between the Orcam
& an IPhone with apps & the ID Mate what my preference is, in addition
to the differences between prices.</DIV>
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<DIV>Again, I’m just saying, not passing judgement. We all have different ways
of finding what works best for us.</DIV>
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<DIV>Eileen</DIV>
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<DIV style="font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=njtechdiv@nfbnet.org>Mario
Brusco via Njtechdiv</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Saturday, October 27, 2018 6:02 PM</DIV>
<DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=njtechdiv@nfbnet.org>Andy via Njtechdiv</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Cc:</B> <A title=mrb620@hotmail.com>Mario Brusco</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Njtechdiv] Orcam</DIV></DIV></DIV>
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my 2 cents in the discussion. it sounds like the Orcam doesn't <BR>need a smart
phone to work.<BR><BR><BR>-------- Original Message --------<BR>From: Andy via
Njtechdiv [mailto:njtechdiv@nfbnet.org]<BR>Sent: Saturday, Oct 27, 2018 11:18 AM
EST<BR>To: New Jersey Technology Division List<BR>Cc: Andy; Discussion of
accessible home electronics and appliances<BR>Subject: [Njtechdiv]
Orcam<BR><BR>Tracy, how does this differ from SeeingAI? SeeingAI seems to
be able to <BR>do most of this. For instance, you can use its "Document"
mode to read <BR>a menu, or perhaps the "Short Text" mode could be useful for
this as <BR>well if you needed something specific. I've used "Short Text,"
for <BR>instance, to read serial numbers, etc.<BR><BR>Similarly, there's also a
"Person" mode, and "Color," etc. It's also <BR>worth noting that SeeingAI
is free for Android and iPhone users.<BR><BR><BR><BR>On Oct 27, 2018, at 11:06
AM, Tracy Carcione via Njtechdiv <BR><njtechdiv@nfbnet.org>
wrote:<BR><BR>I saw the Orcam yesterday. It was pretty nice.<BR>Hold 2
fingers together, and that’s about the length and width of the <BR>camera.
There used to be an extra processor, but now it’s all in the <BR>camera.<BR>It
attaches to a magnet that can clip onto any pair of glasses, on <BR>either side,
depending on which hand is dominant. There’s a ridge that <BR>runs along
the back of the camera that controls volume, and gives access <BR>to a menu that
controls other settings. The camera can also synch with <BR>Bluetooth
headphones.<BR>You point at the thing you want the camera to read, and hold up
your <BR>hand flat to pause it. It read pretty well. I had it read a
very <BR>complicated menu. It got a lot of one side, and not much of the
other, <BR>but there was a lot of curly script and stuff on that side. It
read the <BR>shiny brochure the demonstrator had very well.<BR>The demo person
said it can read labels, price tags, signs … whatever. <BR>We didn’t have most
of those things to try. It read a box well. A can, <BR>not so
much. She said products we use often can be stored in memory, so <BR>it
recognizes them quickly. She also said, if you were in a grocery <BR>aisle
looking at products, and it saw one that’s in its memory, it would <BR>say it,
and you could move around until you actually found it.<BR>There’s 2 versions of
the Orcam. They both do all the things I just said.<BR>The fancier one,
the Eye, also does color recognition. That was pretty <BR>slow, compared
to my Rainbow color detector.<BR>It also recognizes faces. It always
recognized the demonstrator, and <BR>would tell me when I looked in her
direction. We taught it to recognize <BR>Jerry, but it didn’t recognize
him so much. There’s a trick to teaching <BR>it, so maybe I did it
wrong. But, even when it didn’t recognize him, it <BR>would say “There’s a
man in front of you.”<BR><BR>One or both models also read bar codes, but you
have to point right at <BR>it, and that’s just not happening.<BR>The one that is
mostly for reading is $3500, and the Eye that does it <BR>all is
$4500.<BR>Tracy<BR><BR><BR>_______________________________________________<BR>Njtechdiv
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