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Life & fun · May 24, 2019

Read My World by Microsoft

An Android AR app for improving English literacy

Read My World by Microsoft launched on May 24, 2019 with 87 votes, #393 of 3,101 launches that month.

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What it does

Read My World is a Garage project by Microsoft interns for low literacy and English Language Learning adults. English learners can identify objects around them by taking photos of items and allowing Computer Vision APIs to detect and identify the object

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