Extended Vision leverages AI technology to help blind and visually impaired people navigate grocery stores independently. After talking to blind and visually impaired people across the US, we found that current options for grocery shopping are frustratingly limiting. Using a personal shopper, connecting with a volunteer online, or navigating the same grocery routine takes too much time, forfeits independence, and leads to buying the same few products. Our product addresses each of these problems to make grocery shopping enjoyable.
With state of the art technology, Our Machine Learning model can be run in real time on a smartphone We came up with an innovative approach to object detection which allows for recognition of products that have never been seen before by the model! Which is truly exceptional
Our product works in 3 simple steps. You buy our earpiece-camera device and download an app. Every time you go shopping you clip the camera on your shirt, put in the headphone, and plug it into your phone. The app turns on automatically. As you walk through the store the camera captures real time images…
I don’t want to always stay at home and do home delivery, so I go out to shop.
It takes way too long to find things and read things in the grocery store.
Grocery shopping? That’s not so much fun.
You lose a lot of independence.
