{"id":138569,"date":"2022-04-24T22:08:48","date_gmt":"2022-04-25T03:08:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/these-glasses-for-the-blind-can-read-documents-scan-faces"},"modified":"2022-04-24T22:08:48","modified_gmt":"2022-04-25T03:08:48","slug":"these-glasses-for-the-blind-can-read-documents-scan-faces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/these-glasses-for-the-blind-can-read-documents-scan-faces","title":{"rendered":"These Glasses for the Blind Can Read Documents, Scan Faces"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/these-glasses-for-the-blind-can-read-documents-scan-faces2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>May was using a feature on the glasses called Ally, which lets him start video calls with friends and family to get help.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI called up one of my colleagues, Evelyn, and said, \u2018What do you see?\u2019 and she described the environment to me,\u201d said May, chief evangelist at accessible navigation company Goodmaps. \u201cShe told me where the tables were and just gave me the lay of the land.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Envision Glasses are built on the enterprise edition of Google Glass. (Yes, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/reviews\/google-glass-preview\/\">Google Glass<\/a> is still alive.) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/google\/\" section=\"annotation\">Google<\/a> unveiled these smart glasses back in 2013, then touting them as a way for users to take calls, send texts, snap pictures and look at maps, among other things, right from the headset. But after a limited \u2014 and unsuccessful \u2014 release, they <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/tech\/mobile\/google-glass-just-couldnt-handle-the-stress\/\">never hit store shelves<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May was using a feature on the glasses called Ally, which lets him start video calls with friends and family to get help. \u201cI called up one of my colleagues, Evelyn, and said, \u2018What do you see?\u2019 and she described the environment to me,\u201d said May, chief evangelist at accessible navigation company Goodmaps. \u201cShe told [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1965],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mapping"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138569\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}