I knew the Ai about these smart glasses worked pretty well when it told me that someone else in the conversation was the socially awkward.
Transcreeglass is Smart glasses This aims to do exactly what it says on the tin: transcribe oral conversations and project subtitles on the glass before your eyes. They are destined for the deaf and especially the difficult community, who are struggling to read lips or choose a conversation in a loud room.
Most facial computers are ruthless and heavy, but these glasses are lightweight, only 36 grams. Transcreeglass is capable of holding the weight by pushing most of the main computer functions to accompanying app (iOS only for now). There are no cameras, microphones or loudspeakers in the frames, only a small wave projector on the edge of one eye, which hits a picture of 640 x 480p on the glass. This is just a sufficient resolution for text to be read when it projects directly into your vision, subtitling the conversations picked up by the microphone on your phone.
In the app, subtitles can be moved around in the wearer’s vision, anywhere within a 30-degree point of view. You can change the settings to adjust how many lines of text come at the same time, marking up to a text and down to one word at a time. The battery in the glasses must last about eight hours between loads. The frameworks cost around $ 377, and there is an additional $ 20-month subscription fee to access the transcription service.
Subtitles are currently available in the glasses, but Madhav Lavakare, the 24-year-old founder of Transcreeglass, has other functions aligned. In the test phase there is a configuration to translate languages in real time and one to analyze the speaker’s voice tone.
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As washbasinally told me (and The New Yorker In April), he envisioned the idea for this product after wanting to help a difficult friend engage in conversations that did not happen with his needs. Lavakare, who is senior at Yale University, figured glasses was the way to go. If he could only adjust them. And, you know, make them look cooler than some Other glasses There.
“I was quite obsessed with Google Glass when it came out,” washly said.
“Oh,” I say. “So you were glad?”
“I was, I was!” He says with a laugh. “And then I was like why people call me like that?”
As we speak, the words appear on the screen of the glasses I carry. They appear in a Matrix-i green font that steps out through my vision. It makes a pretty good job to transcribe the conversation, though it divides the word “glasshole” into “Glass hole”, which is honestly more fun.
Although Lavakare’s intelligent glasses are much more normal-glass-apprent than Google Glass ever, they still can’t really help but look like smart glasses. The screen has a tiny glow, where the wave guides sit on the glass, which is visible enough for viewers and is clearly noticeable to me when I carry them.
