Blindness/Low Vision

Item Description

Meet Aira – Your life, your schedule, right now!

New to Aira? Well here’s your chance to try it out with this 90 day subscription!

Using augmented reality, Aira connects people who are blind or low vision to a trained professional agent who is dedicated to further enhancing their everyday experience – completely hands-free assistance at the touch of a button. One tap of a button instantly connects you with a sighted professional agent who delivers visual assistance anytime and anywhere.

Aira is made up of video-equipped smart glasses, a smartphone app and one-button access to a network of trained professional agents. You get immediate assistance for almost anything you want to do without a sighted person nearby. It is like having vision in your pocket. For a complete description of how it works, go to http://aira.io

This item is for a new Aira subscriber and includes a ninety-day subscription to Aira’s Basic service plan.  The plan requires either an Android or Apple smartphone, and comes with 100 minutes per month.  This includes glasses, data (via AT&T mifi), insurance for the hardware and one training session.

Item Special Note

Aira is derived from two interesting sources: the emerging field of Artificial Intelligence (AI), and the ancient Egyptian mythological being and symbol known as the Eye of Ra (RA). Steeped in the mysteries of Egyptian mythology, the Eye of Ra has symbolized protection, healing and the power to perceive and interpret both the seen and unseen in the universe.

How Aira started

The seeds for starting Aira were planted in 2014 when Suman Kanuganti and Yuja Chang struck up a friendship with a blind communications professional Matt Brock. This led them to begin discussing how Google Glass technology could be used to help the blind and visually impaired become more mobile and independent. Using this concept, Kanuganti and Chang were inspired to create a service akin to "OnStar" for the blind.

Aira develops transformative remote assistive technology that connects blind people with a network of certified agents via wearable smart glasses and an augmented reality dashboard that allows agents to see what the blind person sees in real time. Agents, serving as visual interpreters, help users accomplish a wide range of daily tasks and activities - from navigating busy streets to recognizing faces and literally traveling the world.