0:00 Start 1:00 End of our Intro Music 4:00 No guest today, unexpected miscommunication etc 6:00 Intro to Apple World Wide Developer Conference, typically this is all software focused updates and announcements 7:45 Apple Intelligence had some big promises but largely disappointed 10:00 Apple refines what others create, doesn't blaze trails themselves 11:00 Apple is now outsourcing its future AI to Google Gemini 14:30 WeWalk Smart Cane and Glide by Glidance 20:30 Personalized Siri, Has Apple Mismanaged Siri for 15 years?
25:00 Siri can answer questions about what your phone's camera can see, dictation updates and customizing Siri's tone and rate of speech. 29:00 Hoping that dictation gets better at understanding punctuation 31:00 Liquid Glass, added customization beyond just disabling it 35:00 Is AI infrastructure inflating the costs of consumer electronics? 41:00 HumanWare's new QWERTY Braille Note Evolve device 44:30 Why is putting in a Contact with Siri so difficult for Apple to do? 51:30 Top Three Commenters in the Chat

0:00 Start

1:00 England's World Cup Update

2:00 Wildfires causing air issues, geographic hazards

4:45 Introduction to the Tovala Smart Oven System

5:00 Promo Code VISIONTECH, Discount equivalent of $250 off oven, 50% off meals

6:30 Introducing CEO David Rabie,

9:30 Headquarters in Chicago, and more Food Facilities in Utah

12:00 Higher Quality Meals with varied textures via various Smart Oven Settings

14:00 Cooking up a Salmon Filet with steam, sauce and soul make such a big difference

15:30 Subscription Deliveries of Meals, shipped Weekly, cheaper if you order larger servings

17:00 The oven has no touch screen, just physical buttons with sound confirmation

18:30 Oven turns off automatically for better safety, no sighted help needed for setting it up

20:00 Step By Step Process for Scanning the Code and so on

24:00 The inception of accessibility came along with the scanner

27:30 Dietary Filtering of Available Meals, Vegetarian, Low Carb/Sodium, and much more

30:00 What are the most popular meals that folks order and reorder?

35:00 Promo Code VISIONTECH

38:30 Ending Music

Notes go here

0:00 Begin

0:10 False Start

2:15 Into Music

3:30 Cory Welcome

6:00 Ice Breaker with Amos Miller

7:00 Introduction to the Glide device

9:30 Why invent Glide? What need does it fill?

14:00 Nudging adjustment encourages freestyle navigation

17:30 Trailing a wall, sidewalk etc is done via responsive resistance indicators

21:00 Letting the Glide guide you, accepting the device's resistance as turning guidance

30:00 Within Line of Sight you can ask Glide to "Find a" door/window/etc

31:00 Glide understands surfaces based on cost, cement is preferable to grass, road is possible

32:00 Street Crossing, seeking ramps, constantly improving our understanding of curbs

36:00 Temperature and environmental effects on battery life, works better in the cold than heat

41:00 Still working on getting the Glide to find a door on par with a guide dog's intuition

48:00 Sign Up for Newsletters, Updates, Training and getting yourself on the Wait List for Glide!

49:30 Upcoming changes, new videos every Thursday!

0:00 Start

3:30 Introduction for Elizabeth Evans from Maggie IVR

6:00 Maggie started off using the iPhone 15, but currently on 17

7:00 High pixel count provides great magnification. How many pixels in a megapixel?

9:00 History of creating Maggie IVR, philosophy of piggybacking off the brains of the iPhone

12:30 Currently it uses the iPhone 17 Pro for three cameras, no Max because of weight

13:30 Multi-Hour wear means that comfort has been a focus for Maggie IVR

16:30 Maggie is just for Low Vision Users, not for no-vision users.

18:00 Voiced Menus have many options to lower the volume and change languages

20:00 This device is not AI focused, but instead focused on being the best magnifier out there

28:30 Demo wearing the device and discussing VR style light blocking and Low Light adaptations

33:00 Maggie Modes: Color switching for contrast, TV Connect Mode,

35:30 Overheating? 4 to 5 hours of use, with minor environmental battery considerations

40:30 Website has loads of specific info as well as photos of the device and use cases

42:00 Top Commenters, Upcoming videos

43:30 Ending Song and Dance

0:00 Start

4:30 Introducing Tom Perski

10:00 Cory comparing his own loss of vision around 13 years old

11:00 Luke and Tom discuss various Catch Phrases and their meanings

15:00 ACB Conferences and Getting to know others

20:50 Tom was Diagnosed at age 18, Undergoing Serious Testing via ERG electroretinogram

28:00 First Stargardt Meet Up In Person

29:00 Cory discusses his own experience meeting and connecting with others

34:30 Tom met his wife while he was on a cruise along with 200 blind passengers

40:00 Religious Topics

45:00 The Working world via Wheaton Eye Clinic

49:00 Upcoming Content, Sequel Book???

51:00 End

Notes go here

0:00 Start

6:30 Introducing Axelle from OOrion

11:00 Origin Story of OOrion

17:00 No Internet required, but optional generative AI uses internet

20:30 App Interface: Visual Question, Search Object or Text, Nearby

22:30 Testing Object Detection

24:30 Search Object

27:30 Example of finding a complex shape such as a Cat

29:30 Changing the Speaking Rate, voice, etc via settings

31:30 Meta Glasses Integration

35:50 Searching your environment for specific Text

40:00 Generative AI with Internet Connection

42:30 Location Specific Accommodation

47:00 Wrap Up Review

49:00 Ending of this week's Show

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0:00 Start

2:15 Welcome to the Show! We got an Award!

4:00 Introducing Rachel Ramos from HumanWare

6:00 History with HumanWare

8:45 Is the Android fad done? A general return to Windows?! Which has more transferable skills?

13:00 Braille Note Evolve! Compute without Limits!

17:15 Cory's first contact and impressions of the device

19:00 KeySoft and a guide to the various input buttons

20:00 Navigating Microsoft Office Ribbons and using JAWs for a Virtual Menu option

21:00 Microsoft Word

25:00 Opening Microsoft Office via KeySoft or Desktop Shortcut

27:00 Math in Excel

29:30 Formulas within Excel and Sheets

31:00 Turning Off Applications which you never intend to use

32:00 Microsoft CoPilot AI and a microphone integrated in the Evolve

37:00 Reminiscing about the Icon, an all in one device powered by Linux

41:30 HumanWare Monarch

46:00 Top Commenters today, ending moments

45:00 End

Notes go here

0:00 Start

1:30 Post Intro Music

8:00 Impressions

9:30 Introducing Carrie

13:00 Oorion App for iOS

16:00 Training the AI to follow commands without repeat prompting

18:30 Meta Glasses AI is free, will Meta start charging???

22:00 She was able to pair her Ally Solos to her Android phone

22:22 Ally Solos are Smart Glasses by Envision using a the Ally App

26:00 Repeating our warning about double checking what the AI says

27:00 Echo Vision by Agiga, Dedicated reading mode that uses AI to clean up OCR etc

30:00 Referral Program, Pre-Order and Pioneer Update for the Echo Vision

36:00 Limited Minutes system from Ira and WeWalk Smart Cane, Pairs well with mobility

38:00 Neo the Home Robot is currently faking the ability to load dishwasher and laundry via VR.

45:00 Google Gemini

47:45 Top Three Commenters ranked

52:40 Ending Music Dance