CSUN 2023 Exhibitor List

A great resource to see who was at this years tech conference.

https://www.csun.edu/cod/conference/ebb/rbk/2023/index.php/public/exhibitors/index/page:1/sort:booths/direction:asc

3 Tactile Graphic Displays at CSUN

Dot Pad, Graffiti, and Monarch.

Grafety (already available)

http://www.orbitresearch.com/product/graphiti/

Dot Pad (available in South Korea)

https://pad.dotincorp.com/ 

Monarch (available 2024)

https://www.aph.org/meet-monarch/

With these 3 on or coming to the market, I think it is going to be important to understand what each one does given they will range in price from $10.000 US to $20.000 US.

Sony Develops Camera for the Vision Impaired Showed off at CSUN

Now this sounds intriguing.

https://au.pcmag.com/cameras-1/99198/sony-develops-affordable-camera-for-the-visually-impaired

Orbit Research shows offMagna, new Portable Video Magnifiers at CSUN

It’ll be interesting to find out how these compare to other portable VM.

https://www.orbitresearch.com/magna-handheld-electronic-magnifier/

Orbit Research shows off Optima Modular speech/Braille computer

Not available until next year, not sure if this is a solution to a non existant problem.

https://www.orbitresearch.com/product-category/optima/

Be-My-Eyes Launches Digital Visual Assistant Powered by Chat GPT 4 at CSUN

This is a virtual assistant to comment on images taken by the camera and describe their content. At the moment this feature is in beta.

https://www.thenationalnews.com/business/technology/2023/03/15/be-my-eyes-launches-digital-visual-assistant-powered-by-gpt-4/

Envision Shows off GPT on the Envision Glasses at CSUN

Interesting to see yet again how the Power of AI is being used to image/describe the world.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkbm72oHPqY

Not sure how this will impact Envision, but Google says Good Bye to Google Glass Enter;piese

https://techcrunch.com/2023/03/16/goodbye-google-glass-we-knew-you-well/

Giving Aira Explorers more choice, article updated on March 14 2023 for CSUN 2023 

Besides a newer interface, people can use the front smart phone camera to talk to the agent.

https://aira.io/new-mobile-app/

3 Chat GPT Clients to have a pLay with

iOS

Get Roasted with Carrots Weather chatbot now using Chat GPT

https://techcrunch.com/2023/03/15/carrot-weather-app-new-chatbot-with-chatgpt-update/ 

Mac

AI Chat, works well with VoiceOver.

https://apps.apple.com/au/app/ai-chat-ask-anything/id1667518571

Apple Watch

Sorry Siri, Introducing Petey, the New GPT app for the Apple Watch

https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2023/03/sorry-siri-meet-petey-the-new-chatgpt-app-for-apple-watch/

Remember, all of these Chat GPT clients (besides Petey I think) need to be subscribed to.

Bing is also having a play with, as the answers are self voicing.

New App for the Mac CenteredHead

This is a way of making sure your head/face is in focus before you go on to a Zoom, webinar call etc.

https://apps.apple.com/au/app/centered-head/id6446192101?mt=12