Vision forward's Tech Connect Live

Episode Notes Notes go here 0:00 Begin 0:10 False Start 2:15 Into Music 3:30 Cory Welcome 6:00 Ice Breaker with Amos Miller 7:00 Introduction to the Glide device 9:30 Why invent Glide? What need does it fill? 14:00 Nudging adjustment encourages freestyle navigation 17:30 Trailing a wall, sidewalk etc is done via responsive resistance indicators 21:00 Letting the Glide guide you, accepting the devi...

0:00 Start 3:30 Introduction for Elizabeth Evans from Maggie IVR 6:00 Maggie started off using the iPhone 15, but currently on 17 7:00 High pixel count provides great magnification. How many pixels in a megapixel? 9:00 History of creating Maggie IVR, philosophy of piggybacking off the brains of the iPhone 12:30 Currently it uses the iPhone 17 Pro for three cameras, no Max because of weight 13:30 M...

Episode Notes 0:00 Start 4:30 Introducing Tom Perski 10:00 Cory comparing his own loss of vision around 13 years old 11:00 Luke and Tom discuss various Catch Phrases and their meanings 15:00 ACB Conferences and Getting to know others 20:50 Tom was Diagnosed at age 18, Undergoing Serious Testing via ERG electroretinogram 28:00 First Stargardt Meet Up In Person 29:00 Cory discusses his own experienc...

Episode Notes Notes go here 0:00 Start 6:30 Introducing Axelle from OOrion 11:00 Origin Story of OOrion 17:00 No Internet required, but optional generative AI uses internet 20:30 App Interface: Visual Question, Search Object or Text, Nearby 22:30 Testing Object Detection 24:30 Search Object 27:30 Example of finding a complex shape such as a Cat 29:30 Changing the Speaking Rate, voice, etc via sett...

Tech Connect Live! 0:00 Start 2:15 Welcome to the Show! We got an Award! 4:00 Introducing Rachel Ramos from HumanWare 6:00 History with HumanWare 8:45 Is the Android fad done? A general return to Windows?! Which has more transferable skills? 13:00 Braille Note Evolve! Compute without Limits! 17:15 Cory's first contact and impressions of the device 19:00 KeySoft and a guide to the various input but...

Episode Notes Notes go here 0:00 Start 1:30 Post Intro Music 8:00 Impressions 9:30 Introducing Carrie 13:00 Oorion App for iOS 16:00 Training the AI to follow commands without repeat prompting 18:30 Meta Glasses AI is free, will Meta start charging??? 22:00 She was able to pair her Ally Solos to her Android phone 22:22 Ally Solos are Smart Glasses by Envision using a the Ally App 26:00 Repeating o...

0:00 Start 1:05 End of Intro Music 6:30 Introducing Jay Cormier 11:00 Previous Devices EYE5 and EYE6 14:45 Electronic Wearable Magnifiers Generally 15:15 Founding Principles = Discrete AT 18:30 EYE7 Specs and Design Process 19:45 EYE5 needed more adjustability for Nose Pads 22:00 EyeSwitch = between Headset Camera vs Phone Camera 25:00 New Eva vs Old Ivy Artificial Intelligence 33:30 Learning your...

0:00 Start 2:00 Why no Livestream last week? Morris Town, New Jersey 6:00 CSUN Generally, Past Years and What its All About!? 9:15 Optaro by Eschenbach 16:45 LVI MagniLink Pro 20:15 Irie my Board Buddy 25:40 Be My Eyes 28:45 Orbit Research Strata Braille Display 37:00 Tech Connect just won an Award! 38:00 Aira Integration with Meta's Smart Glasses 42:00 Case For Vision 50:00 Wrap Up Ending

0:00 Start 5:15 Intro of today's guest Maryam Nakhaei, Product Manager from Hable 6:30 Hable Products and The Company in general: One, New, Speechlabel, 10:20 New Intro Music coming next livestream 14:00 Two types of labels, QR and NFC 17:00 Which iPhones are new enough to have NFC? iPhone 7 and up! 21:00 Where to buy Hable SpeechLabels, available March 2026! 25:00 Can you set the audio label to n...

0:00 Start 3:00 Comments and Announcements 6:30 Geography, Siberia and Russia, our livestream has Worldwide Reach! 12:30 IrisVision 14:00 IrisVision Live 2.0 has stopped production. 14:20 IrisVision Inspire is still available 17:00 Patriot Viewpoint is roughly equivilant to IrisVision 19:15 Apple Vision Pro 24:30 eSight 35:00 Ivy Example from Eyedaptic EYE7 41:45 Maggie IVR 45:30 Vision Buddy 49:3...

Episode Notes 0:00 Begin 10:30 Introducing the Consumer Electronics Show in Vegas 2026 12:00 Smart Lock U400 alternative ways to lock and unlock physical doors 19:30 LifX Smart Mirror with various lightning options and potential Be My Eyes uses 21:00 SwitchBot robot for tasks like folding laundry and washing dishes 24:30 OLED Wallpaper Television by LG 9mm w/ Matte finish 28:00 EyeBot testing your...

Episode Notes Notes go here 0:00 Start 4:00 Sicily Jo and CSUN in California 20:00 First livestream, radically different setup 35:00 Sam Seavey and Peter Tucic as guests on our end of the year quiz show 39:00 Carrie from Carrie on Accessibility 43:00 Barry our furthest traveling in-studio guest! 50:00 Live Grilling, with quite a few issues! 58:30 Brief look behind the scenes at the rest of our rec...

Episode Notes 3:45 Scary Movies and Famous Directors 11:00 Android Demo 13:00 Turning off Adaptive Brightness, Dark Mode 14:15 Font Size 16:15 Night Light, using a Blue Light Blocker for Sleep health 18:30 Lookout App for Android 21:15 Color Correction based on different amounts of cones 23:00 Dark Display Mode 26:00 Color Inversion, Shortcut via a widget 29:00 Magnification 32:45 Select to Speak,...

Episode Notes Notes go here 0:00 Begin 6:30 Addressing what we know so far 12:30 Watching and Discussing the Video 37:00 Wrap Up from the video, upcoming topics 43:00 Ending Song

Link to App: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.stoehr.loviapps.wezoom&hl=en_US 0:00 Start 9:15 Demo of weZoom basic features and controls 12:15 Pause button to freeze the screen, but zooming further requires pinch gesture 13:00 Various Color Modes and how to switch between modes 15:45 Quick Settings for Auto Focus, Brightness, Contrast etc 19:45 Reset the adjustments back to def...

0:00 Start 2:00 Better iPhone generally, also Liquid Cooling Tech and New Colors! 5:30 Is a smaller phone always better? We discuss the downsides 6:45 Data usage and the arms race between Camera and Memory development 12:20 Redundant Updates and New iPhones for the case of new iPhones? 16:00 Air Pods Pro 3 with Live Translation, Heartbeat monitor, 25:00 Apple Watches: Series 11, SE, and Pro Model!...

Episode Notes 0:00 Start 4:30 Introducing Ryan Anetsberger 8:00 People Who Care in Arizona) 11:30 Origins of Live Read as an App 14:00 What using the App is like, design philosophy 20:00 Why isn't it on Android yet? 22:50 Data Protection and No Internet Connection Needed 24:00 Comments from the Chat 25:45 No Data Collection means you can OCR sensitive info without fear 26:00 Ryan Demos the App 28:...

Episode Notes 0:00 Start 5:00 Introduction of the Prodigi Software for Windows 10:10 IPEVO Document Camera Description vs Built in Webcam 12:45 Navigating through the Menus 14:45 Books is a new option in newest update 15:00 Magnifier Basics and Local View OCR Button 18:30 Full Page OCR Capture 21:00 Fielding Comments and Questions (Upcoming Topics) 22:00 Settings Menu 23:00 MultiCapture for a seri...

0:00 Start 1:00 Baseball Traffic in Milwaukee, Brewers vs Cubs update! 4:00 Introducing Amos Miller, CEO of Glidance 8:00 Why it was created? What purpose does it serve as an AT device? 11:45 Glide is a manually pushed system, either one or both of the wheels will slow you to turn. 16:30 Physical description of the device 27:30 Is it waterproof? 29:00 Soundscape and VoceVista are previous projects...

0:00 Start 5:00 Audience Comments 9:30 Joe Jorgensen's Experience and what lead to Accessibyte Studio 13:00 Luke introduces the Studio, including a list of all the various apps in Accessibyte Studio 17:00 Studio is for bridging the gap between Very Simple Applications and Workplace Level Tools Especially useful for instructors who have students of various skill levels. 22:00 Why Studio changes how...

0:00 Start 5:00 Various discussions of video games and musicians 8:30 iOS 26 introduction and development history 11:10 Turning on VoiceOver 12:30 Finding and opening the Phone App 14:00 Bottom tabs in the new Phone App, Calls, Contacts, Keypad and Search 16:45 Calls is the new Recent, how to find your Voicemails? 23:00 Gmail, composing a new email 24:00 Searching within Gmail is now no longer at...

0:00 Start 2:30 Breaking the Ice, chatting about the weather and raising children 5:30 Coffee Talk 8:30 Comments from the Audience, Meta Ray Ban Glasses, Yorkshire Pudding and Hull 16:10 WWDC Breakdown, Liquid Glass 24:00 Apple Vision Pro using Live Magnification! 28:30 Futuristic Speculation about direct brain input 32:00 Apple design philosophy: buy innovations and then saturate the market 36:30...

0:00 Start 5:30 Introducing the topic of Meta Glasses, 6:45 Can you use the meta Glasses with non-standard smartphones? Blindshell Classic 3, Smart Vision 3? 10:30 Demo the Meta being used to read printed text documents and asking follow-up questions 18:40 Calling and receiving a call on the Meta Glasses 24:00 Testing Live AI to understand where doors, chairs and obstructions are 27:00 Sometimes M...

Episode Notes 0:00 Start 8:55 Rachel introduces the Odyssey by HumanWare and NextVPU 10:00 Modern market for OCR devices vs OCR apps, what makes the Odyssey stand out? 11:11 Showing off the physical device, its camera arm, handle and buttons. 12:00 Ports include USB-C, HDMI display port, Wired Power options, Micro SD card for saving files 12:45 Navigating through the menus, how to activate Auto Mo...

Episode Notes 0:00 Start 5:45 Introducing Freek from Hable! 11:00 Last Time Freek discussed the Hable One! Same Hardware for the Easy. 14:30 Showing the device, discussing its buttons, battery and bluetooth! 16:00 Who is this device for? Is the Easy a shortcut around gestures and multi-tapping? 18:00 How do younger folks use this device differently than the older crowd? 19:45 Rundown of the eight...