{"id":4024,"date":"2018-07-11T11:30:08","date_gmt":"2018-07-11T15:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/?p=4024"},"modified":"2018-07-11T11:30:08","modified_gmt":"2018-07-11T15:30:08","slug":"wearable-technology-for-low-vision-nueyes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/?p=4024","title":{"rendered":"Wearable Technology for Low Vision: NuEyes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Contributed by Erin Swann, ATP<\/em><\/p>\n<p>For those with low vision who have been interested in trying a wearable video magnifier, we recently added the <a href=\"https:\/\/nueyes.com\/\">NuEyes<\/a> smart glasses to our loan library.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nueyes.com\/\">NuEyes<\/a>&nbsp;are wireless smart glasses that allow the user to increase and decrease magnification while viewing objects and text in the&nbsp;environment.&nbsp; Other features include different color\/contrast options, voice commands, and OCR (optical character recognition).&nbsp; OCR technology allows printed text to be read out loud to the user.<\/p>\n<p>Sam from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCNbzN3eHbLKPzltSB560DkA\">The Blind Life<\/a> reviews technology for those with low vision and gives his honest opinion about the <a href=\"https:\/\/nueyes.com\/\">NuEyes<\/a> device in the two videos below.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"NuEyes Unboxing - The Blind Life\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CeuO_5Cr-u0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"NuEyes Review - The Blind Life\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/U8HvnQP4528?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>If you or someone you know is interested in a demo or loan of <a href=\"https:\/\/nueyes.com\/\">NuEyes<\/a>, contact MDTAP at mdtap@mdtap.org to schedule an appointment!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"al2fb_like_button\"><div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n(function(d, s, id) {\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1&appId=149587675112835\";\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n}(document, \"script\", \"facebook-jssdk\"));\n<\/script>\n<fb:like href=\"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/?p=4024\" layout=\"standard\" show_faces=\"true\" share=\"false\" width=\"450\" action=\"like\" font=\"arial\" colorscheme=\"light\" ref=\"AL2FB\"><\/fb:like><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Contributed by Erin Swann, ATP For those with low vision who have been interested in trying a wearable video magnifier, we recently added the NuEyes smart glasses to our loan library. NuEyes&nbsp;are wireless smart glasses that allow the user to increase and decrease magnification while viewing objects and text in the&nbsp;environment.&nbsp; Other features include different [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,18,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4024"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4024"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4024\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4033,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4024\/revisions\/4033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}