CSUN 2023 Exhibitor List

 

A great resource to see who was at this years tech conference.

 

https://www.csun.edu/cod/conference/ebb/rbk/2023/index.php/public/exhibitors/index/page:1/sort:booths/direction:asc

 

3 Tactile Graphic Displays at CSUN

 

Dot Pad, Graffiti, and Monarch.

 

Grafety (already available)

 

http://www.orbitresearch.com/product/graphiti/

 

Dot Pad (available in South Korea)

 

https://pad.dotincorp.com/ 

 

Monarch (available 2024)

 

https://www.aph.org/meet-monarch/

 

With these 3 on or coming to the market, I think it is going to be important to understand what each one does given they will range in price from $10.000 US to $20.000 US.

 

 

Sony Develops Camera for the Vision Impaired Showed off at CSUN

Now this sounds intriguing.

 

https://au.pcmag.com/cameras-1/99198/sony-develops-affordable-camera-for-the-visually-impaired

 

Orbit Research shows offMagna, new Portable Video Magnifiers at CSUN

 

It’ll be interesting to find out how these compare to other portable VM.

 

https://www.orbitresearch.com/magna-handheld-electronic-magnifier/

 

Orbit Research shows off Optima Modular speech/Braille computer

 

Not available until next year, not sure if this is a solution to a non existant problem.

 

https://www.orbitresearch.com/product-category/optima/

 

 

Be-My-Eyes Launches Digital Visual Assistant Powered by Chat GPT 4 at CSUN

 

This is a virtual assistant to comment on images taken by the camera and describe their content. At the moment this feature is in beta.

 

https://www.thenationalnews.com/business/technology/2023/03/15/be-my-eyes-launches-digital-visual-assistant-powered-by-gpt-4/

 

Envision Shows off GPT on the Envision Glasses at CSUN

 

Interesting to see yet again how the Power of AI is being used to image/describe the world.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkbm72oHPqY

 

Not sure how this will impact Envision, but Google says Good Bye to Google Glass Enter;piese

 

https://techcrunch.com/2023/03/16/goodbye-google-glass-we-knew-you-well/

 

Giving Aira Explorers more choice, article updated on March 14 2023 for CSUN 2023 

 

Besides a newer interface, people can use the front smart phone camera to talk to the agent.

 

https://aira.io/new-mobile-app/

 

3 Chat GPT Clients to have a pLay with

 

iOS

 

Get Roasted with Carrots Weather chatbot now using Chat GPT

 

https://techcrunch.com/2023/03/15/carrot-weather-app-new-chatbot-with-chatgpt-update/ 

 

Mac

 

AI Chat, works well with VoiceOver.

 

https://apps.apple.com/au/app/ai-chat-ask-anything/id1667518571

 

Apple Watch

 

Sorry Siri, Introducing Petey, the New GPT app for the Apple Watch

 

https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2023/03/sorry-siri-meet-petey-the-new-chatgpt-app-for-apple-watch/

 

Remember, all of these Chat GPT clients (besides Petey I think) need to be subscribed to.

Bing is also having a play with, as the answers are self voicing.

 

New App for the Mac CenteredHead

 

This is a way of making sure your head/face is in focus before you go on to a Zoom, webinar call etc.

 

https://apps.apple.com/au/app/centered-head/id6446192101?mt=12

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