Some of the AI apps claim they can do this to a degree, but there are a few issues with this. For one, nothing out there would replace a white cane or guide dog which means you would have to walk with either a white cane or guide dog in one hand and holding your iPhone in the other hand and you would have to wear a headset of some sort to hear what whichever app you use may or may not say about upcoming obstacles. This is of course the dream for what AI smart glasses should be able to do since it si the perfect task for glasses which you can wear and which would leave your hands free. The problem is that in order for this to really work well, the glasses (or your iPhone) would need to have at least a LiDAR sensor which can accurately measure the distance between you and whatever obstacle it focuses on. Any of the Pro iPhones for quite a few years now do have a LiDAR sensor so this would be OK. However, for it to really work well, there would also have to be a Radar sensor and I don’t think this exists on any smart phone yet at all. Finally, it will be years yet before such sensors are small enough to be embedded in the frame of a pair of smart glasses and where battery technology exists which could provide enough capacity to get even an hour or two of use from such glasses if they had such sensors. The closest you would be able to come to this right now would be to use a pair of Meta smart glasses and call a Be My Eyes volunteer or which is possible with the glasses or to use WhatsApp and call a friend or family member who could then give you actual real-time information. Of course the soon to be released EchoVision smart glasses which are made for the blind would also work although you can only call Be My Eyes or Aira with them at this point and there will soon be more main stream models as according to the rumours Google will release smart glasses this year and possible Apple will as well.
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