What is the app store link for Aipol?  I can’t find it through the search 
function on the phone.


> On Jan 5, 2016, at 6:28 PM, Lelia <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> There should be a continue button at the end of page 5 
> 
> lelia
> 
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> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of 
> Jenifer Barr
> Sent: Tuesday, January 05, 2016 6:02 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: Artificial vision app AIPoly has been released
> 
> Lol! I can't get out of the tutorial! It keeps saying page 5 of 5. I flik up 
> thinking that will help... nope. Any suggesttions? 
> 
> Jenifer Barr
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> 
>> On Jan 5, 2016, at 6:51 AM, Ben Mustill-Rose <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> AIPoly (pronounced A I Poly) was released a couple of days ago; 
>> unfortunately the announcement ended up in my spam folder, so I only 
>> saw it this morning.
>> 
>> For anyone who doesn't remember, a few months ago, AIPoly received a 
>> fairly large amount of media coverage with the usual hard-hitting 
>> headlines like "app allows blind people to see" and then as is usually 
>> the case we heard next to nothing about it. However, unlike most other 
>> projects like this, the app is actually available in the app store 
>> right now & it does sort of work.
>> Here is a good article that gives some background:
>> http://techcrunch.com/2015/08/17/aipoly-puts-machine-vision-in-the-han
>> ds-of-the-visually-impaired/
>> 
>> I'm not one for writing up lengthy tutorials, but since I found the 
>> app a bit confusing I've provided some pointers below:
>> 
>> After you have swiped through the tutorial you will be on the main 
>> screen. To start recognizing objects, point the device at an object 
>> and press the "toggle AIPoly" button. You will receive no feedback 
>> what so ever. When this button is pressed the device will constantly 
>> be trying to recognize things - E.G. you are able to move the device 
>> around & it will automatically try to recognize whatever is in front 
>> of it.
>> After a few seconds, feel just under the middle of the screen and you 
>> should find out what AIPoly thinks the object is. If focus remains on 
>> this element future objects will sometimes be spoken but sometimes 
>> not, so it's best to keep feeling around the same area.
>> The "pencil" button is used to teach AIPoly about an object although 
>> I've yet to give this a go.
>> For me, it takes about 5 seconds for an object to be recognized, but 
>> as I say, you receive no feedback at all, so it's hard to know when 
>> it's safe to move the phone away and when a result is returned.
>> 
>> The app definitely has a lot of potential and since it's free you 
>> can't really beat the price, but the user experience needs quite a bit 
>> of work.
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> Ben.
>> 
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