[amaurose]

I am wondering if this sort of thing could be used in the real world, in particular, as navigation helper for a blind pedestrian. Products like Orcam have shown a cam + headphones can more or less easily be packed onto some glasses (for OCR). Navigation helper tools exist since the 80s, but all they basically did until now is scan the environment in a primitive way and use some sort of vibration to alert the user. This is very unspecific, and mostly useless in real life. However, having a vision AI that looks down the path of a blind person could potentially revolutionize this sort of application. For obstacle detection and navigation help. From "Careful, construction site on the sidewalk, 20 meters ahead" to "tactile paving 1 meter to your left". Lets take the game to the streets! If the tech is there, that sounds like a good startup idea...