After the historic sale of Mobileye to the chip giant Intel, the founders of the company, Prof. Amnon Shashua and Ziv Aviram are already working on their next project – a company called OrCam, which is already valued at 600 million dollars and is generating quite a bit of interest in the world.
According to OrCam Technologies, the artificial vision innovator for people who are blind, visually impaired, have a reading disability or other conditions, OrCam MyEye is the world’s most advanced wearable assistive technology solution. It empowers people with vision and reading disabilities by utilizing a small, intuitive smart camera mounted on the wearer’s eyeglass frame. OrCam MyEye instantly and discreetly communicates vital visual information through independence-giving artificial vision technology.
In real time, OrCam MyEye reads any printed text, from any surface – including newspapers, books, computer and smartphone screens, restaurant menus, labels on supermarket products and street signs – and recognizes faces of individuals as well as identifies products and banknotes.
The event included:
A presentation/demo of OrCam MyEye device as well as the opportunity to trial the device yourself
A briefing by OrCam’s team on the company, its goals and progress
