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GIFT OF VISION
DISTRIBUTES SVG FOR THE
JCBF VISUALLY IMPAIRED
DISTRIBUTION OF SVG
TO VISALLY IMPAIRED LADIES
VIVEK EDU TRUST, JCBF, STUDENTS AT WOD YOGITA WITH SNDT STUDENTS AND
CELEBRATION BENEFICIARIES
ision-Aid has a long history of providing to manufacture and distribute the wearable
the visually impaired with low-cost and device in India at a fraction of its cost in Europe
Vaffordable assistive devices. Through and the US.
its long-standing relationship with several
eye hospitals in India, they work together Artificial Intelligence (AI) and built-in
to provide vision rehabilitation services to navigation capabilities in Smart Vision Glasses
people with vision disability. enable the visually impaired to read, navigate,
and recognise objects and people. They
Smart Vision Glasses (SVG) is an innovation inform users of the nature of their immediate
of SHG Technologies, a Bangalore based surroundings, obstacles, locations and even the
technology start-up, in collaboration with expression on people’s face with whom they are
Vision-Aid. The partners are working together communicating. It acts as a seeing eye and a
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