I saw this on my breakfast cereal box (in the US) and looked it up. A company called Navilens made this to help visually impaired people with things like street signs, etc… neat!

https://navilens.com

EDIT TO ADD: Haha, I forgot I am on lemmy so we’re discussing the technology and licensing issues, instead of focusing on how this might improve the lives of visually impaired people.

    • perishthethought@lemm.eeOP
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      9 months ago

      Yeah but no. I think, in a way, they’re having your phone’s camera assist you if you can’t see well.

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        9 months ago

        Yeah, it looks like it’s both more detailed navigation for sighted people, and geared towards helping people with difficulty seeing.

        Wish it didn’t look like to be a proprietary code format, since that severely limits it’s viability as a widespread thing.