lol, What if you have no family that has skype or facetime or, there just not available?
Ricardo Walker [email protected] Twitter:@apple2thecore www.appletothecore.info On Apr 28, 2013, at 6:44 PM, Lauren Simmons <[email protected]> wrote: > For the most part, this already exists, its called Skype. Its also called > Facetime. The volunteers are family members. I've been doing a similar thing > for years. :) > > LS > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Søren Jensen" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Sunday, April 28, 2013 9:16 AM > Subject: BeMyEyes: A ground braking product I'm a part of > > > Hi all. > > I'm involved in this cool project. Read more here: > > Be My Eyes is a non-profit initiative that aims to equip blind with "a pair > of eyes" which fits into your pocket. This can be done by the blind at any > time, on his/her smart phone: you start an application, and can through this > be put in direct video connection with a voluntary sighted person. The > sighted volunteer helps you through the camera in the blind person's smart > phone to see (video transmitted to the helpers smart phone) what the blind > person is pointing at with the smart phone camera and can solve a given task. > The task could, for example. be: Reading the date on a milk carton, see if > two socks are alike, read the buttons on the washing machine, etc. It is the > blind who has control over what the volunteer sees, while the volunteer can > for example say "a little closer" or "date is on the other side of the milk > carton." This way the blind and the sighted volunteer help each other to > solve the given task. > > The technical part of the project is, first, to develop an application > available for the blind that can connect the users with sighted volunteers - > here is so far developed a prototype. The second part is to develop a system > on a server that all Be My Eyes will run on. When you create a user account > on the system, you could choose whether you are the visual impaired who needs > help, or if you are the sighted person who wants to help. The sighted help to > be able both to use the system on an iPhone (or other smart phone platforms), > an iPad tablet (or other tablet platforms) with a larger screen so it's > easier to see the image and on a computer where the image is, of course, it > depends on the screen connected to the computer. > > The idea is to build a network of volunteers who want to help. You can even > sign in and out anything useful, and you can specify what time of the day or > week you have time to help, where you will be notified accordingly. If > technology allows, then the visually impaired also use the app over 3G and > 4G, making the possibilities endless, since in this way you can use the > system anywhere. This requires of course that as a visually impaired learn > some techniques to use the camera properly. The advantage of video interview > is that the sighted volunteer can guide one to use the camera properly, which > eventually becomes better and better. > > The team behind Be My Eyes is a mixture of blind, partly sighted and sighted > people who know the depth of the problems the project to solve. All involved > have contributed on a strictly volunteer basis. > > The idea stems from Hans Jørgen Wiberg who himself is visually impaired. Hans > Jørgen works as a visually impaired consultant in the Danish Blind Society. > Here he experienced countless times to sighted assistance in a moment would > have made the blind able to solve a variety of tasks on their own. When Hans > tried video conferencing on his smart phone "dropped the pieces in place" - > through a voluntary network could be in the moments when the blind was faced > with tasks that required vision, get assistance via video chat on your mobile! > > We are looking for volunteer programmers, visually impaired as impaired. The > advantage is that a visually impaired programmer familiar with the challenges > of accessibility, and a sighted programmer to help with the visual. We are > looking for both people who create applications for PC / Mac, iOS and server > based systems. > > In order to implement this exciting project, we are also looking for > financial help, as all in the team is working volunteer and we need some help > outside the company as programmers and such, which is not cheap. > > If you want that all this comes true, then you can donate to us on Indiegogo > at the following link: > www.indiegogo.com/projects/be-my-eyes-community-help-for-the-blind > > Read more on our website at: > http://www.facebook.com/l/0AQHAl41NAQG333R7tdGulVawm-wGyuVVtA68MvtPCYSjfg/ > > www.bemyeyes.org > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google > Group. > To search the VIPhone public archive, visit > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. > --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VIPhone" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google > Group. > To search the VIPhone public archive, visit > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. > --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VIPhone" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. 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