Jul 24, 2017 4:11 AM

Augmented Reality: Aira glasses

*This is the "Mechanical Turk" version of augmenting human sight: your vision is impaired, so you ask somebody with online remote video to tell you what you're looking at.

*The kicker – it could be a deep-learner vision recognition system, one of these days.

Aira launched six months ago and counts about 400 blind or vision-impaired subscribers

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