Jonathan, Thank you! That was a really informative interview. I am so jealous of you all having this app, being in Ireland, but he did sound helpful for other countries to be joining you soon! One possible application for the facial recognition channel would be, say, in the case of attending a conference or a lecture, if people uploaded their own pictures and details to, for example, Facebook page, or a special dedicated attendees website, and we could then download those images/details, we could use our phones to look around the room and see who was where!
there was mention, at the beginning of the interview, of the use of smart glasses: I wonder if, even right now, we could Bluetooth some smart glasses to our phones and link it to the app? in this way, freeing up our hands and pointing, intuitively, with our faces. just dreaming… Sandy sent from the dark side of the moon > On 26 Jul 2017, at 22:56, Jonathan Mosen <jmo...@mosen.org> wrote: > > Hi everyone, since there’s been so much discussion here about Microsoft’s > amazing Seeing AI app, just letting you know that I interviewed the person > who came up with the idea and supervised its development at Microsoft on the > current episode of Mosen Consulting’s podcast, The Blind Side. Of course The > Blind Side is available on all the podcast apps and directories. > > > Jonathan Mosen > Mosen Consulting > Blindness technology eBooks, audiobooks and training > http://www.mosen.org > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. > > If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if > you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or > moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. > > Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor. Mark can be reached at: > mk...@ucla.edu. Your list owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at > caraqu...@caraquinn.com > > The archives for this list can be searched at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/ > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VIPhone" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/viphone. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor. Mark can be reached at: mk...@ucla.edu. Your list owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
