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OrCam
Company type
Private company
Industry
Health, Assistive technology
Founded
2010; 14 years ago (2010) Jerusalem
Founder
Ziv Aviram Amnon Shashua
Headquarters
Har Hotzvim, Jerusalem, Israel
Key people
Prof Amnon Shashua (Chairman and CTO) Ziv Aviram (President and CEO)
Dr. Yonatan Wexler (Executive VP of R&D)
Products
OrCam MyEye and OrCam MyReader
Number of employees
394 (2021)
Website
http://www.orcam.com/
OrCam devices such as OrCam MyEye are portable, artificial vision devices that allow visually impaired people[1] to understand text and identify objects through audio feedback, describing what they are unable to see.
Reuters described an important part of how it works as "a wireless smartcamera" which, when attached outside eyeglass frames, can read and verbalize text, and also supermarket barcodes. This information is converted to spoken words and entered "into the user’s ear." Face-recognition[2] is also part of OrCam's feature set.[3]
^The NYTimes article headlined "Simple Home Improvements for the Vision Impaired" (https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/13/realestate/simple-home-improvements-for-the-vision-impaired.html) uses twice the words "visually impaired"
^Romain Dillet (July 12, 2017). "The OrCam MyEye helps visually impaired people read and identify things". techcrunch.com. Retrieved February 8, 2018.
^"Israeli visual aid company OrCam valued at $1 billion". Reuters. February 19, 2018.
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