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24 alternatives to I created a PoC for live descriptions of the surroundings for the blind
The difference in cost between products that are developed as accessibility tools compared to consumer products is huge. One example is camera glasses where the accessibility product costs ~$3000 (Envision Glasses), and the consumer product costs ~$300 (Ray-Ban Meta). In this case the Ray-Ban Meta is getting accessibility features. The functionality is promising according to reviews, but requires the user to say "Hey meta what am I looking at" every time a scene is to be described. The battery life seem underwhelming as well. It would be nice to have an cheap and open source alternative to…
This project is an open-source proof of concept for real-time audio descriptions of surroundings designed for blind users. Built with an ESP32 WiFi camera and Arduino development, it aims to provide a lower-cost… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.
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Hi! Recently smart-glasses with cameras like the Meta Ray-bans seem to be getting more popular. As does some people's desire to remove/cover up the recording indicator LED. I wanted to see if there's a way to detect when people are recording with these types of glasses, so a little bit ago I started working this project. I've hit a little bit of a wall though so I'm very much open to ideas! I've written a bunch more on the link (+photos are there), but essentially this uses 2 fingerprinting approaches: - retro-reflectivity of the camera sensor by looking at IR reflections. mixed results…
Nov 2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Pinch▲535Hey HN! I’m Christian, daily lurker and some might remember our original launch post (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42935355). Today we're launching Pinch for Mac, which we believe is a step-change improvement in real-time AI translation. Our vision is to make cross-lingual conversations feel as natural as regular conversations. TL:DR During an online meeting, the app instantly transcribes and translates all audio you hear, and allows you to decide when you translate your voice and when you don't. It's invisible to others (like Granola), and works everywhere without any…
2025 · startpinch.com · its alternatives →
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v1.0.0: https://github.com/dcrebbin/meta-vision-api/releases/tag/1.0... The previous implementation was very very hacky and used a bookmarklet alongside uglified messenger classes from 2 years ago to monitor a chat, it was also only for image messages. The new release is a browser extension for chrome & firefox that you run on an alt facebook account on messenger that can monitor for new chat & image messages + video monitoring if in a call. You can create a group chat and use a special method (instructions in the readme) to force the Glasses to be aware of…
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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TapTapSee▲73Helping visually impaired people identify objects
2015 · taptapseeapp.com · its alternatives →
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Create and download inclusive and accessible designs
2023 · venngage.com · its alternatives →
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Text to audio converter camera app for visually impaired
2014 · knfbreader.com · its alternatives →
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A simple mobile web app inspired by Fuzzy-Search/realtime-bakllava that uses llama.cpp server backend with multimodal mode to describe and narrate what the phone camera sees. I built this thing in a few hours using a single ChatGPT thread to generate most things for me and iterate on this project. Here's the workflow: https://chat.openai.com/share/ea84ec69-5617-45e8-8772-ac2dcf...
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Clevr▲147My friend and i built this because we were trying to just learn things in a more fun and interactive way. We think there's a community we could build around this? And there's definitely a lot of work to do. Super curious to see what you guys think, and where we can make the learning experience better.
2025 · theclevr.com · its alternatives →
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I wanted Apple Vision Pros, but I don’t have $3,500 in my back pocket. So I made Apple Vision Pros at home. This was just a fun little project I made. Currently, the website doesn't work on screens less than 1200x728 (Sorry mobile users!) It also might struggle on lower end devices. For best results, have a webcam pointing right at you. I tested my website with a MacBook camera. Any comments, questions, or suggestions are greatly appreciated! blog: https://blog.andykhau.com/blog/eyesite check it out: https://eyesite.andykhau.com/ github:…
2025 · blog.andykhau.com · its alternatives →
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Mutrics ARiC▲104Open source all in one AR glasses for developers
2021 · kickstarter.com · its alternatives →
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tota11y▲102An accessibility visualization toolkit from Khan Academy
2015 · khan.github.io · its alternatives →
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GlassKit UI▲71AI-ready React UI for Meta's Ray-Ban Display glasses
Jun 2026 · glasskit.app · its alternatives →
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All new smart glasses from Meta and Ray-Ban
2023 · about.fb.com · its alternatives →
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PixelBlock▲117Just got around to updating this to support MV3. Has been featured on HN a few times. I make this in my spare time to support user privacy. Free extension (has been for years). Mods: Would be awesome if this could hit front page so people can benefit
2014 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →
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Motivation and UX with Tanner Gers
2016 · gadgetsprimer.com · its alternatives →
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A Cinema, Courtside Seat, and Workspace in Just 100 Grams
Sep 2026 · about.fb.com · its alternatives →
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Computer generated music for sight reading practice
2016 · its alternatives →
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