Google, which announced its new moves in artificial intelligence at its I/O event earlier this week, has been bringing innovations to its applications and services for some time now. The prominent applications in the field of accessibility were one of them. The company offers “Look after” brought innovations in its application.

The new version of the Lookout application, which you can access here, is being published. Company, using artificial intelligence It brought features that will be very useful for visually impaired people.

It can identify surrounding objects using the camera and assist the user

The Lookout application could read texts and even long documents aloud to the user. The new version includes a mode called “Find”. This way, users can use everything from vehicles to tables, from kitchenware to bathrooms. one of the 7 categories They can choose.

When they select a category, the phone communicates with that category in the room via the camera. will be able to identify related objects. The application then selects that object direction and distance Want to say. In this way, the user’s interaction with the environment is facilitated. Additionally, Google allows users to take photos and quickly access descriptions created by artificial intelligence. A brand new record button also added it to the application.

We recently saw that OpenAI’s GPT-4o model can help visually impaired people by explaining their environment. This feature that Google has brought to the Lookout application will also be very useful with a similar function. It’s great to see such features from companies that will be very helpful for visually impaired users.