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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>I saw the Orcam yesterday. It was pretty nice.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>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.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>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.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>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.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>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.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>There’s 2 versions of the Orcam. They both do all the things I just said.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The fancier one, the Eye, also does color recognition. That was pretty slow, compared to my Rainbow color detector.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>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.”<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>One or both models also read bar codes, but you have to point right at it, and that’s just not happening.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The one that is mostly for reading is $3500, and the Eye that does it all is $4500.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Tracy<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>