AppleVis Extra 101: Future Echoes - In conversation with the team behind Echo Vision smart glasses
Description
Welcome to AppleVis Extra 101, where Dave Nason is joined by Xiaoran Wang and Huasong Cao from Agiga, the team behind the upcoming Echo Vision smart glasses.
Check out some early demos, with more to come, on their YouTube channel at:
https://www.youtube.com/@AgigaAi/videos
And learn more on their website at:
https://echovision.agiga.ai/
The team would love to hear your feedback, so please comment below, or contact them through the website.
TranscriptDisclaimer: This transcript was generated by Aiko, an AI-powered transcription app. It is not edited or formatted, and it may not accurately capture the speakers’ names, voices, or content.
Hello there and welcome to the AppleVis Extra.
This is episode number 101.
My name is David Nason and I'm delighted to be joined by two fantastic guests from Agiga.
We have Xiaoran Wang and HuaSong Cao
Is that correct, guys?
Thank you, David.
Thank you for having us.
So yeah, delighted.
And the product you're going to talk to us about is the Echo Vision.
So before we get into that, though, do you want to tell us a little bit about yourselves, the company, what you do, really, and how it all came about?
Sure.
My name is Xiaoran.
I'm the CEO, and before doing this company, actually, I had long experience building and shaping intelligent devices.
I started my career at Amazon Level 26.
That's the first place of the world's first Kindle and also the world's first Alexa.
And I was actually in the early team that developed Alexa devices.
And this experience gave me good exposure and got me enough experience on how to build a good intelligent device.
I think that's one of the confidence I brought in when I was doing this company that we can build a great product for the community.
Brilliant, and obviously, Alexa, a device that's very popular, being a voice-first product, very popular in the blind and visually impaired community.
So yeah, that's really cool.
And tell us about yourself, Hua Song.
Yeah, thanks, David.
So my name is Hua Song, and I'm an engineer by training.
Before I started this company with Xiaoran, I was with Google for about nine to ten years.
I did various software projects, and the latest one is Google Assistant, the voice assistant similar to Amazon counterparts.
Yeah, I've been enjoying doing software, building stuff, both hardware and software.
And with Giga, what we are trying to do is really to use our expertise built prior to this company and take that to something that we can really use to help everyone.
That's brilliant.
So do you want to quickly tell us what the product is, and then we can delve into a bit more detail.
Yeah, so the product is called EchoVision.
By looking, it looks like a normal pair of glasses.
The key feature is to articulate visual information into voices.
Think about it.
If you can't see this, and there's someone next to you, how will this person help you?
So basically, he or she is going to describe it for you, like read it out for you.
And that's how we envision our product, basically.
It's like an assistant, a virtual assistant that does this work for you.
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