Google has updated its accessibility application Lookout for low vision and visually impaired people. The application can now identify surrounding objects via the camera and inform the user.
Google, which announced its new artificial intelligence moves with its I/O event earlier this week, has been bringing innovations to its applications and services for a while. The prominent applications regarding accessibility were one of them. The company offers “Lookout” brought innovations to its application.
The new version of the Lookout application, which you can access here, has started to be published. Company, with the support of artificial intelligence It brought features that will be very useful for people with visual impairments.
It will be able to identify surrounding objects using the camera and assist the user
The Lookout application could read texts and even long documents aloud to its user. The new version includes a mode called “Find”. In this way, users can use everything from vehicles to tables, from kitchenware to bathrooms. one of 7 categories They can choose.
When they select a category, the phone interacts with that category in the room via the camera. will be able to identify related objects. The application then selects that object direction and distance will say. In this way, the user’s interaction with the environment will be facilitated. In addition, Google allows users to take photos and quickly access descriptions created by artificial intelligence. A brand new capture button also added it to the application.
We recently saw that OpenAI’s GPT-4o model can help visually impaired people by explaining their surroundings. This feature that Google brought to the Lookout application will also be very useful with a similar function. It is great to see such features from companies that will be very useful for visually impaired users.
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