September 11, 2025

Tek Talk welcomes Kevin Chao, Chief Visionary and Evangelist of AGIGA, to discuss their EchoVision Smart Glasses. 08/11/2025

1 hour 12 minutes

EchoVision is the first AI Smart glasses made by, with, and for the blind to provide audio description of the visual world, including:

Scene description: all detailed of what things look like that a blind person would want to know and sighted people see

People: height, width, color of skin, eyes, hair, facial expression, ethnicity, age, gender.

Facial recognition: name + title based on taking a few perspective photos and adding custom name + title.

Book reading mode: OCR text reading of printed text paper, mail, financial, medical, books. Flip pages and read.

Live AI mode: Explore the world and it’ll provide play-by-play audio description of what’s in frame of camera.

Transit: Using voice request to navigate or transit to any point of interest or address and get transit route schedule and preview, so one knows if they need to wait for next bus/train, walk to catch it, or run to make it in time, and build mental map of route.

Remote visual interpreter: AIRA and Be My Eyes support.

Feels like regular sun glasses:

Front: square top, mostly straight and slightly curved on side lens, rounded at bottom and inside. Right side has 13MP wide-angle landscape camera. Left: LED indicator to let people know camera is active.

2x buttons on top edge of arms near lens: right for AI and left for camera and power.

Speakers in arm that point towards ears

USB-C port in back-right arm.

Presenter Contact Info

Bio: Kevin Chao has ben blind since 14 years old, has worked in digital accessibility as an evangelist and advocate for nearly two-decades at fortune 50 companies (Sendero Group, Georgia Institute of Technology,, JPMorgan Chase, US Bank, Google, Apple) making mobile apps and websites usable for people with disabilities, including blind people. Chao has been an early adopter, tech enthusiast, and beta tester of many blindness assistive technology, including wearable and glasses (owned or used: eSight, OrCam, Envision, Meta Ray-Bans, , Seleste)and have worked with many blindness companies to provide direct feedback. Chao is Chief Visionary and Evangelist at AGIGA.AI.

Email: [email protected]

Website: https://agiga.ai/

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