Vision forward's Tech Connect Live

0:00 Start

9:00 Introducing our Guest Kevin Grosu

10:30 Mission Statement

11:30 Who is your family's Designated Tech Guro?

14:00 The conversation which inspired Kevin's focus on inclusive technology

16:30 Translating your thoughts and intentions into automatic tech action

22:00 The more steps required, the greater the chance to veer off track

25:00 Demonstration of AppGenie

28:00 Shopping Trip via InstaCart

33:00 Our analysis of the demonstration, narration of the actions as they happen

34:30 AppGenie knows which interactable elements are on the screen, can see beyond the scroll

36:00 What happens if the App changes its design? AppGenie knows which elements should be present

39:00 Kevin wants app developers to join in on AppGenie themselves "No one knows better how their application should work."

42:00 Near future possibility of using Voice-Commands and AI to control your computer fully verbally

43:00 Android only so far,

44:00 Kevin's send off, final thoughts on AppGenie

47:00 Ending

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0:00 Blank while we troubleshoot the stream 1:30 Start 3:00 Luke is on vacation in Denmark, International Flights 4:45 Lumyeye Pro Introduction of Alban and Manisha 6:50 Alban Clochet's personal journey in this industry 11:45 Cory thinks our best innovators have personal experience helping someone with vision loss 14:30 Using the app by just using your voice is 100% possible 20:00 This app updates and keeping up with Apple/iPhone updates 23:00 Questions from the chat, Android and Comparable Apps like Oorian 25:00 Top functions = Finding nearby objects, LiDAR enhanced navigation 29:00 Actionable Information. If an object you are navigating to "disappears" past the bottom of the screen, the app tells you it is likely below you on a table or the floor itself 34:00 Taking pictures of documents, forcing it to read word by word without changing anything. 38:00 Launching the app, getting right into it 40:00 Voice First with Lumyeye Pro gives you the ability to ask very specific questions right away 42:00 Comments from our audience, Positive Audio response jingle, Meta Glasses??? 45:00 Search for businesses online and call them without needing to leave the app 47:00 Vision Live feature gives 10 minutes of use free 50:00 Via Contact Us, our Audience is given 15 days of free use for the Lumyeye Pro App 54:30 Wrap Up, Lumyeye Pro App, our YouTube channel, 57:00 Sign off, saying goodbye to Alban and Manisha, ending music dance!

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0:00 Start 1:15 Welcome, Ice-Breaking via Emoji 4:00 Comments and The Order of Names 6:30 Introducing Plaud AI and its uses 10:00 Why use Plaud? Memory Degrades over time 12:15 Plaud Pin is a magnetic pin or wrist-worn microphone system 16:30 You can use your phone itself for recording on the Plaud App 17:30 5 hours is the maximum length of audio file, longer recordings will be multiple files 18:00 Note Pro has better microphones, credit card sized, very small screen with no menus 20:30 Legality of recording audio without first getting full consent from all parties 21:10 Plaud One is a headphone but otherwise similar to Note Pro in capacity and quality 23:00 Plaud Pin is very convenient, one button activation without even unlocking your phone 24:00 Once recorded, you get a transcription which differentiates between speakers 25:30 Templates are available for specific purposes like Meetings, or Appointments etc 26:15 Auto Flow is a setting where you can have Plaud auto email you specific things 28:30 Get reminder emails for our Livestream by emailing TechConnect@visionhttp://-forward.org 31:30 Create reusable custom templates or import existing templates to help Plaud 32:15 Different costs for the physical devices. 33:00 Different Tiers of Subscription Cost, Starter, Pro, Unlimited, and Team Plan 34:30 Visual of the Plaud App, very subtle visual indicators for the Plaud Pin. 36:00 Musing on modern surveillance, differences in consent laws between states of USA 38:30 Plaud App navigation of recent notes and options 43:00 Example of how a summary sounds using our own ice breaker conversation earlier 46:00 Accessibility is okay, but its better when you are sending things through email 48:00 Wrap Up Review of Plaud, http://Plaud.AI website, 49:00 Claud vs Plaud (funny story) 50:15 Top Commenters Celebrated 53:00 Upcoming topics for the produced videos and livestreams

0:00 Start 2:00 Introducing today's Guest 5:00 Tony Gebhard's Personal Story 8:00 Music Production in the Modern Age 11:00 Writing his own music at 12, the adolescence band experience 16:00 Learning Digital Music Editing via Logic Pro, Audacity, Garage Band, 19:30 Tony's Views on AI, how to synergize AI with a Screen Reader 23:00 Various AI options available now: Claude, Codex, Chat GPT, 25:00 Making things Edited with AI vs Generated/Created by AI 28:30 Website Design, first Word Press, then Hosting a Server 32:00 NVDA Coach talks to you like an instructor would, step by step 35:30 Step by Step how to find and get the Coach running properly 40:00 Tony's Book: "No Sight Required: The Blind User's Guide to AI 46:00 Where to find it, printed or read aloud etc 50:00 Wrap Up, http://TonyGebhard.me and upcoming Tech Connect Videos 53:30 Outro

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

Episode Notes

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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

Episode Notes

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

Episode Notes

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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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Tech Connect Live!

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

Episode Notes

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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

0:00 Start 1:05 End of Intro Music 6:30 Introducing Jay Cormier 11:00 Previous Devices EYE5 and EYE6 14:45 Electronic Wearable Magnifiers Generally 15:15 Founding Principles = Discrete AT 18:30 EYE7 Specs and Design Process 19:45 EYE5 needed more adjustability for Nose Pads 22:00 EyeSwitch = between Headset Camera vs Phone Camera 25:00 New Eva vs Old Ivy Artificial Intelligence 33:30 Learning your preferences and speaking commands naturally 35:00 Different Eye conditions need different devices. Central Vision Loss 39:30 1080p Displays, ~50* Field of View, Electrostatic Control 41:00 Using the phone as a controller, Tech Support, 43:00 Retail Price, Release Date, Were to buy them??? 48:00 Wrap Up Sign Off 50:00 End

0:00 Start

2:00 Why no Livestream last week? Morris Town, New Jersey

6:00 CSUN Generally, Past Years and What its All About!?

9:15 Optaro by Eschenbach

16:45 LVI MagniLink Pro

20:15 Irie my Board Buddy

25:40 Be My Eyes

28:45 Orbit Research Strata Braille Display

37:00 Tech Connect just won an Award!

38:00 Aira Integration with Meta's Smart Glasses

42:00 Case For Vision

50:00 Wrap Up Ending

0:00 Start 5:15 Intro of today's guest Maryam Nakhaei, Product Manager from Hable 6:30 Hable Products and The Company in general: One, New, Speechlabel, 10:20 New Intro Music coming next livestream 14:00 Two types of labels, QR and NFC 17:00 Which iPhones are new enough to have NFC? iPhone 7 and up! 21:00 Where to buy Hable SpeechLabels, available March 2026! 25:00 Can you set the audio label to not play automatically? Not yet, but if you want this as an option please write to Hable asking for this. 26:00 Mary demos Speech Label for us. 30:15 My Labels Tab is where you can delete labels and reuse stickers with new labels 33:30 Public Labels? This setting allows anyone with the app to read any public label 39:45 Tactile stickers which are advanced bump dots using ABC's, #'s or Emojis 44:00 Wrap Up Outro with our Music

0:00 Start

3:00 Comments and Announcements

6:30 Geography, Siberia and Russia, our livestream has Worldwide Reach!

12:30 IrisVision

14:00 IrisVision Live 2.0 has stopped production.

14:20 IrisVision Inspire is still available

17:00 Patriot Viewpoint is roughly equivilant to IrisVision

19:15 Apple Vision Pro

24:30 eSight

35:00 Ivy Example from Eyedaptic EYE7

41:45 Maggie IVR

45:30 Vision Buddy

49:30 Top Three Commenters for today's Livestream

51:00 TV Modes from Maggie IVR and Iris Vision

51:30 Wrap Up Ending Music

Episode Notes

0:00 Begin

10:30 Introducing the Consumer Electronics Show in Vegas 2026

12:00 Smart Lock U400 alternative ways to lock and unlock physical doors

19:30 LifX Smart Mirror with various lightning options and potential Be My Eyes uses

21:00 SwitchBot robot for tasks like folding laundry and washing dishes

24:30 OLED Wallpaper Television by LG 9mm w/ Matte finish

28:00 EyeBot testing your eyesight within 3 minutes

31:00 New version of Pebble Smart Watches

33:00 Lawncare via robotics using the RoboRock RockMow

36:00 Power Keyboard

38:00 MicroRBG for ultra premium Televisions by Samsung

41:00 .Lumen Glasses uses your forehead to detect surroundings

47:00 Wrap-Up and upcoming topics for Tech Connect Live!

Episode Notes

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0:00 Start

4:00 Sicily Jo and CSUN in California

20:00 First livestream, radically different setup

35:00 Sam Seavey and Peter Tucic as guests on our end of the year quiz show

39:00 Carrie from Carrie on Accessibility

43:00 Barry our furthest traveling in-studio guest!

50:00 Live Grilling, with quite a few issues!

58:30 Brief look behind the scenes at the rest of our recording studio

1:00:00 Ending Wrap Up and Exit Music

Episode Notes

3:45 Scary Movies and Famous Directors 11:00 Android Demo 13:00 Turning off Adaptive Brightness, Dark Mode 14:15 Font Size 16:15 Night Light, using a Blue Light Blocker for Sleep health 18:30 Lookout App for Android 21:15 Color Correction based on different amounts of cones 23:00 Dark Display Mode 26:00 Color Inversion, Shortcut via a widget 29:00 Magnification 32:45 Select to Speak, AVAILABLE VIA FREE ACCESSIBILITY SUITE 40:00 Wrap Up, Take away thoughts 42:00 Upcoming livestreams and video topics, Free ACVREP Credits on Demand! 45:20 End

Episode Notes

Notes go here 0:00 Begin 6:30 Addressing what we know so far 12:30 Watching and Discussing the Video 37:00 Wrap Up from the video, upcoming topics 43:00 Ending Song