Vision forward's Tech Connect Live

Tech Connect Live! 0:00 Start 2:15 Welcome to the Show! We got an Award! 4:00 Introducing Rachel Ramos from HumanWare 6:00 History with HumanWare 8:45 Is the Android fad done? A general return to Windows?! Which has more transferable skills? 13:00 Braille Note Evolve! Compute without Limits! 17:15 Cory's first contact and impressions of the device 19:00 KeySoft and a guide to the various input buttons 20:00 Navigating Microsoft Office Ribbons and using JAWs for a Virtual Menu option 21:00 Microsoft Word 25:00 Opening Microsoft Office via KeySoft or Desktop Shortcut 27:00 Math in Excel 29:30 Formulas within Excel and Sheets 31:00 Turning Off Applications which you never intend to use 32:00 Microsoft CoPilot AI and a microphone integrated in the Evolve 37:00 Reminiscing about the Icon, an all in one device powered by Linux 41:30 HumanWare Monarch 46:00 Top Commenters today, ending moments 45:00 End

0:00 Start 1:05 End of Intro Music 6:30 Introducing Jay Cormier 11:00 Previous Devices EYE5 and EYE6 14:45 Electronic Wearable Magnifiers Generally 15:15 Founding Principles = Discrete AT 18:30 EYE7 Specs and Design Process 19:45 EYE5 needed more adjustability for Nose Pads 22:00 EyeSwitch = between Headset Camera vs Phone Camera 25:00 New Eva vs Old Ivy Artificial Intelligence 33:30 Learning your preferences and speaking commands naturally 35:00 Different Eye conditions need different devices. Central Vision Loss 39:30 1080p Displays, ~50* Field of View, Electrostatic Control 41:00 Using the phone as a controller, Tech Support, 43:00 Retail Price, Release Date, Were to buy them??? 48:00 Wrap Up Sign Off 50:00 End

0:00 Start 5:15 Intro of today's guest Maryam Nakhaei, Product Manager from Hable 6:30 Hable Products and The Company in general: One, New, Speechlabel, 10:20 New Intro Music coming next livestream 14:00 Two types of labels, QR and NFC 17:00 Which iPhones are new enough to have NFC? iPhone 7 and up! 21:00 Where to buy Hable SpeechLabels, available March 2026! 25:00 Can you set the audio label to not play automatically? Not yet, but if you want this as an option please write to Hable asking for this. 26:00 Mary demos Speech Label for us. 30:15 My Labels Tab is where you can delete labels and reuse stickers with new labels 33:30 Public Labels? This setting allows anyone with the app to read any public label 39:45 Tactile stickers which are advanced bump dots using ABC's, #'s or Emojis 44:00 Wrap Up Outro with our Music

Episode Notes 0:00 Begin 10:30 Introducing the Consumer Electronics Show in Vegas 2026 12:00 Smart Lock U400 alternative ways to lock and unlock physical doors 19:30 LifX Smart Mirror with various lightning options and potential Be My Eyes uses 21:00 SwitchBot robot for tasks like folding laundry and washing dishes 24:30 OLED Wallpaper Television by LG 9mm w/ Matte finish 28:00 EyeBot testing your eyesight within 3 minutes 31:00 New version of Pebble Smart Watches 33:00 Lawncare via robotics using the RoboRock RockMow 36:00 Power Keyboard 38:00 MicroRBG for ultra premium Televisions by Samsung 41:00 .Lumen Glasses uses your forehead to detect surroundings 47:00 Wrap-Up and upcoming topics for Tech Connect Live!

Episode Notes 3:45 Scary Movies and Famous Directors 11:00 Android Demo 13:00 Turning off Adaptive Brightness, Dark Mode 14:15 Font Size 16:15 Night Light, using a Blue Light Blocker for Sleep health 18:30 Lookout App for Android 21:15 Color Correction based on different amounts of cones 23:00 Dark Display Mode 26:00 Color Inversion, Shortcut via a widget 29:00 Magnification 32:45 Select to Speak, AVAILABLE VIA FREE ACCESSIBILITY SUITE 40:00 Wrap Up, Take away thoughts 42:00 Upcoming livestreams and video topics, Free ACVREP Credits on Demand! 45:20 End

Link to App: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.stoehr.loviapps.wezoom&hl=en_US 0:00 Start 9:15 Demo of weZoom basic features and controls 12:15 Pause button to freeze the screen, but zooming further requires pinch gesture 13:00 Various Color Modes and how to switch between modes 15:45 Quick Settings for Auto Focus, Brightness, Contrast etc 19:45 Reset the adjustments back to default levels, a good backup to remember 20:40 Touch Gestures for advanced use, Double, Triple, Four Finger touch controls 26:00 Adjusting file size via picture quality and other factors 29:00 Programming the volume keys to shortcut any command! 33:30 Wrap Up 39:15 Top Three Commenters for this week's Livestream 40:45 Outro Music and Credits 45:00 End

Episode Notes 0:00 Start 4:30 Introducing Ryan Anetsberger 8:00 People Who Care in Arizona) 11:30 Origins of Live Read as an App 14:00 What using the App is like, design philosophy 20:00 Why isn't it on Android yet? 22:50 Data Protection and No Internet Connection Needed 24:00 Comments from the Chat 25:45 No Data Collection means you can OCR sensitive info without fear 26:00 Ryan Demos the App 28:30 Voice Over does not interfere with the App or Read Twice 29:30 You do not need to keep the camera pointed at text after initial use 34:00 Its a Free App, might as well download it as a tool in the tool belt 34:30 When will it be able to read columns and charts etc (One of Ryan's priorities) 37:00 Tinkering to improve usability to include shaky fingers or subpar camera skills 41:00 Top Three Commenters for this session 42:30 Wrap Up Sign off

0:00 Start 1:00 Baseball Traffic in Milwaukee, Brewers vs Cubs update! 4:00 Introducing Amos Miller, CEO of Glidance 8:00 Why it was created? What purpose does it serve as an AT device? 11:45 Glide is a manually pushed system, either one or both of the wheels will slow you to turn. 16:30 Physical description of the device 27:30 Is it waterproof? 29:00 Soundscape and VoceVista are previous projects Amos has started up 30:00 News coverage, The Today Show, 31:15 2024 first demo at CSUN, improvements since then, 34:45 Line Maintenance and Freestyle navigation 46:00 Cold weather Temperature Range of The Glide, it heats itself up to counter cold weather 48:45 User Feedback driven design, testing and early purchase methods 53:20 Ending Song

0:00 Start 5:00 Various discussions of video games and musicians 8:30 iOS 26 introduction and development history 11:10 Turning on VoiceOver 12:30 Finding and opening the Phone App 14:00 Bottom tabs in the new Phone App, Calls, Contacts, Keypad and Search 16:45 Calls is the new Recent, how to find your Voicemails? 23:00 Gmail, composing a new email 24:00 Searching within Gmail is now no longer at the top, but now at the bottom 25:30 Filtering Emails in the bottom left, 27:30 careful for floating search box and compose button, 30:30 Podcast App, Search Tab and general navigation 34:00 Messages, 35:30 Composing a new text message, 37:00 Control Center, Exploring by touch works even with Liquid Glass activated, except email app!!! 38:20 Jokes 39:30 How to explore an unfamiliar app and get comfortable with any major update! 41:00 Finding the Maps app, ignoring the unnecessary category label as a screen reader user, 42:00 You cannot open an app if it is partially covered/blurred because it is at the very top or bottom. Even if you hear the phone sees it, you may not be able to open it unless you scroll up or down a bit. 44:30 Upgrading to iOS 26, take away thoughts on this new system, Find out more at https://techconnectlive.pinecast.co This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

0:00 Start 5:30 Introducing the topic of Meta Glasses, 6:45 Can you use the meta Glasses with non-standard smartphones? Blindshell Classic 3, Smart Vision 3? 10:30 Demo the Meta being used to read printed text documents and asking follow-up questions 18:40 Calling and receiving a call on the Meta Glasses 24:00 Testing Live AI to understand where doors, chairs and obstructions are 27:00 Sometimes Meta needs to be asked twice in order to detect obstacles 38:30 Pairing the Meta to the Smart Vision 3 44:44 Tutorial Loads when you first open Meta Glasses app 53:00 We plan to revisit this topic and try to improve things 53:30 Thanking Audience, Closing thoughts and upcoming videos! Find out more at https://techconnectlive.pinecast.co This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

Episode Notes 0:00 Start 5:45 Introducing Freek from Hable! 11:00 Last Time Freek discussed the Hable One! Same Hardware for the Easy. 14:30 Showing the device, discussing its buttons, battery and bluetooth! 16:00 Who is this device for? Is the Easy a shortcut around gestures and multi-tapping? 18:00 How do younger folks use this device differently than the older crowd? 19:45 Rundown of the eight buttons and what their default settings are, how to label them tactile 21:00 Open the box, hear voice instructions on how to connect your device and get started. 24:30 Helpful buttons for navigation, back button and reset button are useful incase you get lost 27:00 The Hable Easy is easily the best deal compared to how large an impact it can make for someone 28:30 Tactile stickers which can be applied according to what the user customizes their buttons to do. 31:00 If you already own the Hable One, you already have the hardware so just use your App to turn it into a Hable Easy! 32:00 Works with bluetooth to connect to iPhone, iPad, Apple TV, and soon the Apple Watch! 33:00 How many actual button combinations can you program? 35:30 Fan suggested edits and improvements to the Hable 36:30 Hable Easy works with 90% of the commands on Blindshell, works with other Android devices too! 37:15 Where to buy the Hable Easy or Hable One. 38:30 Battery Life is about 1 month, but it does have to be charged 39:30 Upcoming Topics and updates to our LMS and Zoom based livestreams 41:45 End Find out more at https://techconnectlive.pinecast.co This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

0:00 Start 6:00 Xiaoran, CEO of Agiga introduces the company, herself and the EchoVision Glasses 8:45 Huasong, CTO of Agiga, gives his story and how they chose to make their own smart glasses 16:00 Optional Colored or Mirrored front covers similar to clip on sunglasses 18:00 How to charge the glasses, how is the battery life and weight? 20:00 Demonstration of the reading mode, first using a business card 23:00 Specifically asking what the phone number on a business card is, summary of text options 25:30 Scene Description, environmental basics such as furniture people and technology 27:45 Facial Recognition, Description and Emotional information 32:45 Point and Describe? Can the glasses recognize gestures like that? 34:45 Tips for Facial Description from a Blindness POV, tips and tricks for longer term development 36:45 Menus and Dim Light Conditions 39:00 Live Descriptions with Continuous Audio Feedback 46:30 Sharing your media taken from the EchoVision Glasses, Media Buttons 49:00 Price, Promo Code and PreOrdering the EchoVision Smart Glasses from Agiga 52:00 Closing The show! Find out more at https://techconnectlive.pinecast.co This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

Episode Notes 0:00 Start 6:45 Introducing Rachel Ramos from HumanWare, her story and her current role 10:15 HumanWare product overview of devices old and new 17:00 Victor Reader Stream, book reader, podcasts, internet radio, news and magazines, all audio 18:30 New features of Victor, organize your Voice Notes into folders, 20:45 Guided demonstration of navigating and creating named folders, 23:15 Demo of recording a new Voice Note, 24:15 Files are numbered sequentially by default, after deleting a file you can Consolidate to renumber files. 29:00 Brailliant and other Braille products, read books, take notes and 32:00 What is new? Tools like WIkipedia, Wiktionary and WordSet 35:00 Example use case of searching an unfamiliar word, 38:00 HumanWare Podcast w/ Rachel and Peter "See Things Differently with HumanWare" 43:00 Navigating with Brailliant and selecting words to look up 47:00 HumanWare Odyssey featuring AI powered scanned document questions, 49:00 Wrap Up with Rachel Ramos from HumanWare, upcoming topics and events 51:15 Ending with Music Find out more at https://techconnectlive.pinecast.co This podcast is powered by Pinecast.