“We sooner or later want to have a solution that will seem like a standard pair of glasses and value no much more than a few hundred pounds – about the identical as a intelligent telephone,” he explained.
Dr Hicks’ crew has set up testing venues in Oxford and Cambridge in which they can manage the lighting and introduce obstacles to keep away from. Participants are tracked as they navigate by way of obstacle courses, with and without intelligent glasses.
Iain Cairns from London, who was diagnosed with the inherited eye condition choroideremia at about the age of 12, described wearing the glasses as: “It is like I’ve wandered into an 80s pop video. Absolutely everyone has amazing A-ha drawings round them.”
Lyn Oliver from Faringdon in Oxfordshire, who was diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa in her early 20s, explained the intelligent glasses could assist when out with her guide dog.
“If Jess stops, the glasses can inform me if she’s stopped because there’s a kerb, there’s one thing on the floor or it is roadworks, and it’ll give me a sense of which way she may possibly go about the obstacle,” she explained.
The investigation and development of the glasses is funded by the Nationwide Institute for Well being Analysis (NIHR). The trials are currently being carried out with the support of the Royal Nationwide Institute of Blind Men and women (RNIB).
The group has been awarded additional funding from the Royal Society to appear at introducing more attributes into the glasses, such as encounter, object or text recognition and audio prompts.
There are approximately one hundred,000 men and women in the United kingdom alone with this reduced degree of vision and who could potentially benefit, according to the researchers
Sensible glasses "for the blind" designed at Oxford
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