Imagine,
if the blind were given the power of sight
An aid to take them places fearlessly
Move left, obstacle approaching,
Move left, obstacle approaching
Here at vision we continuously strive to empower
the blind to be Socially mobile
and ​to
enhance their kinetic movements
and capabilities to be a much productive Citizen of India
and of the Globe
We have had extensive work and involvement
with 
the individuals in the disabled community
and as a writer myself I can say that
I have witnessed firsthand their basic and daily struggles.
And also there is a feeling and wanting to be connected
with more people and on a much wider scale
And also being engaged to the community
on a much higher level.
And that's the gap we are trying to fill,
by letting them have a personalised
link to the disabled community
and to the world at large through
our connected eco-system of 
our products and services..
Vision was initially started as a project
in innovation and product development minor, 
and as we did gemba visits
We grew more and more passionate about solving this problem
And now its on a much higher level in terms of
Commitment and passion
To augment the visually impaired with fairy advanced
technology is quite challenging and exciting I must say
The product is a secure and smart
integration of powerful tools
Such as Intel RealSense camera
And neural compute stick 2
The camera allows us to capture depth images, 
which helps to know the obstacles distance.
The NCS2 on the other hand
is quite a powerful vision processing unit
that is capable of running deep and complex neural networks
I believe all their daily struggles
and important pain points 
can be
solved through computer vision
To seamlessly convert visual imagery 
into audio signals is quite challenging
Research have shown that hearing 
is one of the primary senses after sight
Our device is not just a cane substitute
but rather a supplement
We have used pre-trained models 
for prototyping purposes,
that is mobile net single shot detector
to detect the objects in the real time environment
These object detection results are sent to
the text to speech engine to 
get the clear cut voice to the customer
Once the product is fully commercialised
it will improve the lives of the visually impaired for better
I believe our device
can truly revolutionize
the way
the visually impaired people perceive this world,
they can travel independently, and do what they love on their own
With this device,
34 million people
can
unlock a new level of independence
and satisfaction,
and they can secure an improved quality of life.
