Help to son see Spanish Couple Develop “High-Tech Glasses”.
Fostering the glasses cost 900,000 euros ($1 million), of which the couple contributed 65,000 euros of their own cash, while the rest came from public organizations and group financing.
Barcelona, Spain: At the point when their two-year-old child Biel began falling once again a great deal and experienced issues climbing steps in the wake of figuring out how to walk, Jaume Puig and his significant other searched clinical assistance to sort out the issue.
Subsequent to visiting a few specialists, the little child was determined to have low vision, a condition undeniably more normal than visual deficiency that makes day by day undertakings a test.
For Biel’s situation, it was because of an optic nerve issue yet the condition can likewise be brought about by surrenders in the retina, cerebrum or different pieces of the visual framework, or by conditions like glaucoma or macular degeneration.
Low vision can’t be amended with glasses or medical procedure. And keeping in mind that magnifiers can assist with explicit assignments like perusing, there was no accessible innovation to assist the baby with getting.
So in 2017, Puig, a Spanish electrical specialist, and his better half Constanza Lucero, a specialist, established Biel Glasses, an organization which made a computerized gadget to assist those with low vision to move about securely all alone.
“There are sticks and guide canines. Nothing else. We got into this since we saw there was a requirement for it,” Puig, 52, told AFP at Barcelona’s Mobile World Congress (MWC), the telecom business’ greatest yearly assembling.
The headset is in plain view at the show.
A combination of gaming goggles and glasses, it’s anything but a 3D picture onto which text, designs and video can be overlaid upon certifiable pictures.
It likewise utilizes AI to identify and flag hindrances.
real time visual admonition
“We figured we could utilize these advancements to exploit the vision he has so he can be more autonomous.
“Possibly we can’t fix him yet we can help him,” said Puig of his child who is presently eight.
At the point when a wearer moves toward an item hindering their way, an enormous red circle will show up on the screen notice them of the snag.
It additionally permits them to focus in on a road sign or other item.
Fostering the glasses cost 900,000 euros ($1 million), of which the couple contributed 65,000 euros of their own cash, while the rest came from public establishments and group subsidizing.
They worked with a group of specialists and PC engineers, among them one of Spain’s top experts on low vision, to make the item which has been supported for use in the European Union.
It is required to go on special in Spain and Denmark not long from now.
The glasses, which should be redone for the particular necessities of every client, cost 4,900 euros ($5,850).
Puig, who has established a few other innovation new companies, presently desires to add voice actuation and a route framework that works with Google Maps in future adaptations of the glasses.