{"id":21342,"date":"2016-01-29T20:17:32","date_gmt":"2016-01-30T04:17:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/aipoly-vision-ai-app-opens-up-the-world-live-for-visually-impaired"},"modified":"2017-06-04T11:02:08","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T18:02:08","slug":"aipoly-vision-ai-app-opens-up-the-world-live-for-visually-impaired","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/aipoly-vision-ai-app-opens-up-the-world-live-for-visually-impaired","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Aipoly Vision\u2019 AI app opens up the world live for visually impaired"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XMdct-5bERQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This just in: <a href=\"http:\/\/aipoly.com\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Aipoly Vision<\/a>* \u2014 a free AI app that runs on your iPhone\/iPad** (Android coming) and recognizes objects and colors \u2014 is now live on the App store, <a href=\"http:\/\/aipoly.com\/who-we-are.html\" target=\"_blank\">Aipoly Inc.<\/a> co-founder Alberto Rizzoli just told me in an email.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, I immediately downloaded the app, launched it on my iPhone 6s+, and tested it. It works spectacularly. Its voice names objects or colors in real time as a walk around and also displays objects\u2019 names. I am blown away. Here\u2019s a sample:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Aipoly Vision test\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/aipoly-vision-ai-app-opens-up-the-world-live-for-visually-impaired.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"510\" height=\"210\" \/><b><center>Informal Aipoly Vision object-recognition test (credit: A. Angelica\/Aipoly Inc.)<\/center><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Aside from a few minor glitches (the swivel chair was also named \u201coffice\u201d and \u201cpadded stool\u201d and a banana was also named \u201cbug\u201d and \u201chandle\u201d \u2014 but I taught it the right name using its \u201cpencil\u201d tool), Aipoly Vision was astoundingly accurate. Colors were a problem with small objects because of backgrounds, but works OK for most large objects, walls, and floors, the company says.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kurzweilai.net\/aipoly-vision-ai-app-opens-up-the-world-live-for-visually-impaired\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This just in: Aipoly Vision* \u2014 a free AI app that runs on your iPhone\/iPad** (Android coming) and recognizes objects and colors \u2014 is now live on the App store, Aipoly Inc. co-founder Alberto Rizzoli just told me in an email. Of course, I immediately downloaded the app, launched it on my iPhone 6s+, and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":362,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,1512,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-mobile-phones","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21342","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\/362"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21342"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63084,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21342\/revisions\/63084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}