Smart Glasses that allow the blind to see, could help 150,000 in the UK alone, by transforming the way blind and partially sighted people go about their everyday lives.
These incredible glasses uses glasses-mounted camera to project images onto eyepieces.
RNIB and Oxford University they just receive £500,000 funding, that will enable to create 100 pairs of smart glasses and test them with 1,000 people.
This will be the first large-scale test of smart glasses and augmented reality for sight enhancement anywhere in the world. It’s the first step towards getting the glasses made available to everyone who needs them.
More information on the Google Impact Challenge Competition is available on the Google Impact Challenge Website.
More information is available on the BBC Website.
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