Orcam

[tallyho]

Hi there I have been invited to participate in a 2 week research trial of Orcam my eye 2 at a London university has anyone tried this?

[eesnapal]

The person to ask is Professor Geeta Mehan. She heads up the eye clinic at FPH and will be weĺl versed in the suggestion.

[tallyho in reply to eesnapal]

Ha ha Geeta is my very own consultant at FPH. The study is at a university I might let her know I am doing it though

[tallyho in reply to eesnapal]

As said I will let her know about it I don’t think she will know anything about this study. We know each other well and I queued at the ladies with her the other week 😁But my question was has anyone tried this - as on this health unlocked site.

[Hidden in reply to tallyho]

Yes I had a demo with it around a year ago. Although I am fortunate enough not to need it I was mightily impressed. It can read even the tiniest of small print on medications and phone chargers etc but its piéce de résistance is in face detection.

[Ceri2]

Hi Tallyho,

We had a demo of Orcam at our w @ m (working age) Macular Society group about 18 months ago. It has potential but no one was tempted to buy one, approx £2000 at the time. Most of our group are used to using screen readers and possibly didn’t see a massive advantage over the seeing AI app which is free to I phones. However if a free trial had been on offer, I am sure that quite a few of us would have given it a go! A friend who did have Orcam had to turn off the face recognition facility as she found it quite annoying! I will be interested to know how you get on, I think they have updated Orcam since our demo.