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Envision and Aira Partner To Enhance Glasses For Blind and Low Vision People
Envision and Aira have announced a strategic partnership that allows Envision Glasses to use Aira's service. Aira is a service company that provides access to 24/7, human-to-human, professional visual interpreting for virtually any task at home, work, or when on the move.
Envision Glasses brings software to smartglasses, enabling the unprecedented experience of unobtrusive access to the visual world. With features ranging from real-time text recognition, to voice controls and even hands-free video calling, Envision Glasses open the door for the future of wearable assistive technology.
Envision Glasses customers with an Aira account can now effortlessly place hands-free video calls to Aira Agents as and when they choose. Until now, Aira users have had to rely solely on chest harnesses to mount their mobile devices when they sought a hands-free experience. Now, the Envision Glasses offer Aira Agents a unique field of view from the customer’s perspective, with the panning and pointing of the camera happening at eye level, and natural head movement directing them toward what is of interest.
For Envision Glasses customers, the integration with the Aira service provides access to 24/7, human-to-human, professional visual interpreting for any task at home, work, or when on the move. This addition of Aira to the Envision Glasses substantially strengthens and compliments our Ally video call feature which enables customers to make video calls to chosen family members and friends.
Aira on Envision Glasses enables new levels of efficiency and ease of use to power many popular experiences already in play but now further improved:
- Information workers for workplace autonomy: on-demand assistance with computer-related tasks, with inaccessible documents, describing inaccessible materials like charts and graphs and navigating to meetings, offsites, and during business travel.
- Manual laborers for workplace efficiency: on-demand assistance stocking and managing inventory, reading computer screens, setting up equipment, locating tools, navigating through unfamiliar spaces, and learning new tasks and processes as roles change.
- Individuals for personal independence: objective assistance with anything personal or time-sensitive where enlisting a friend or family member is not desired or not possible.
The partnership with Aira is the start of a rollout of feature enhancements and third-party integrations on the Envision Glasses that will enable millions of low vision and blind people to live more independent lives, at home, work, or on the move.