OrCam device
OrCam devices such as OrCam MyEye are portable, artificial vision devices that allow visually impaired people to understand text and identify objects through audio feedback, describing what they are unable to see.
| Company type | Private company |
|---|---|
| Industry | Health, Assistive technology |
| Founded | 2010 Jerusalem |
| Founder | Ziv Aviram Amnon Shashua |
| Headquarters | Har Hotzvim, Jerusalem, Israel |
Key people | Prof Amnon Shashua (Chairman and CTO) Ziv Aviram (President and CEO) Dr. Yonatan Wexler (Executive VP of R&D) |
| Products | OrCam MyEye and OrCam MyReader |
Number of employees | 394 (2021) |
| Website | http://www.orcam.com/ |
Reuters described an important part of how it works as "a wireless smartcamera" which, when attached outside eyeglass frames, can read and verbalize text, and also supermarket barcodes. This information is converted to spoken words and entered "into the user’s ear." Face-recognition is also part of OrCam's feature set.
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