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Empowering the visually impaired with neat visual codes (lemm.ee)

submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by [email protected] to c/mildlyinteresting

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I saw this on my breakfast cereal box (in the US) and looked it up. A company called Navilens made this to help visually impaired people with things like street signs, etc... neat!

https://navilens.com

EDIT TO ADD: Haha, I forgot I am on lemmy so we're discussing the technology and licensing issues, instead of focusing on how this might improve the lives of visually impaired people.

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[–] beefcat 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

QR codes wouldn’t solve this problem, because they would still house a link that has to be opened in the NaviLens app to be of any use.

These codes don’t just take you to some static document. It opens up in the NaviLens app, which when use features like the gps, gyro, and camera in your phone to provide more rich, contextual information.