eSight Go Review - Is This the Best Wearable Tech For Low Vision Users?"
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- Опубліковано 18 вер 2024
- In this video, we dive into the hardware and software features of the new eSight Go, the latest in wearable assistive technology. From its sleek design and improved comfort to advanced features like tilt adjustment and enhanced image stabilization, we explore how this device can improve daily life for those with low vision. Watch to learn how the eSight Go compares to previous models and discover its standout features!
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As someone who has never heard of this device before, it took a really long time before you described what the device is actually for.
These are some pretty cool glasses, and they seem very unique compared to other wearables that are out there
Just want them to make something that allows us to drive!
I know!! So frustrating! My biggest hurdle is traffic lights and curves. I was prescribed bioptics and they do train for driving but haven’t gotten them yet.
Other than driverless cars, by optics is about the only thing we have, or will have for the foreseeable future. Maybe sometime in the distant future they can make some type of heads up display wearable that a person can use to drive a car. Similar to how some military tanks work, but I don't see that happening for several decades. It's just too dangerous with the speed that cars go.
Very informative. Thank you. 😎
Is this usefull for night blind people?
Thank you ❤
Thanks for this good review. Your doing a real good joh ere. This producs looks cool and practial. :)
Good review. I also have Stargardt's with blind spots in one eye.. I have tried the eSight Go and have had results similar to Sam's. However, it is worth giving them a try to see if they are beneficial for you.
Would have loved to have seen some glasses footage from outdoor use! I watch football, travel regular, and am currently using a hand-held monocular.
Thanks for the shows, Jim
Thank you, Sam. What a great video. And to answer anybody’s questions yes you can put a prescription in the device and it is not permanent so if you ever need to resell it or change your prescription it’s easily obtainable.
any restriction on the prescription strength? I am aphakic (no lens) so my prescription is VERY strong. There are devices like the Meta Ray-Ban glasses that allow for prescription lenss, but they do not accomodate strong prescriptions.
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Great!
Esight makes the field of view bigger than 120 degrees, I'll buy five. For people without central vision, comfort and flexibility don't matter as much if it significantly improves their vision. You're thinking about this the wrong way-unless data shows there are more customers with peripheral vision loss, then I get it. It doesn’t matter if the device is larger or less comfortable; if it works and lets people use their peripheral vision, that’s what counts. If you can get the field of view over 120 degrees, it would change everything for a lot of people, and I’ve been telling you this for years.
Have you communicated with the micro OLED manufacturers? Is there really a size limit for that type of screen?
So I tried the eSight 4 once and what totally confused me, was that the screens were super duper tiny. Like you hat to put on 10x zoom just to be able to see anything bigger than it is normaly... Absolutely unusable. I am currently using the Oxsight Onyx. However I think the company went under or something :-( The best wearable I have ever tried was the Apple Vision Pro. If we could somehow create a Zoom-App for this thing, like to be able to make your surroundings bigger. It would be amazing.
I will tell you from an experience as a person with retinitis pigmentosa the enhancement of the larger screens and better camera on this device have really made a big difference. I know I sell the product, but I use it as well.
@@adampalmer614Nice! Does the product actually justify its price point? $5k is staggeringly steep for what is essentially no more than AR/VR glasses, many of which sell for less than $1k.
I would say yes. This is the only manufacturer that manufactures all components with exceptions to the cables and are based in the US now. The main corporation that purchased the company from Canada manufactures over 40 million cameras for automobiles from what I understand they are a leader in this.has lifetime updates and the form factor is comfortable and simple to use. The previous version was $6900 which was overpriced and it had complications. I always tell people I’m a sales person but I believe in what I sell.
The first generation device was 15,000. The third generation was 10,000. This one is 5000. They are trying their best to get the price point down. When you don’t manufacture that many units, it’s hard to get the parts cheap.
How to compare to nueyes?
Though the cost is different, the quality of the camera and the construction of the glasses of the current NUEYES is virtually not a comparison.
Old school NuEyes that looks like a pair of glasses, it doesn't exist any more.
Thanks for the review. Would you be able to answer on how they work in low light conditions? Do they brighten up the picture? Just thinking if they would help in cases where your night vision is not good.
They do somewhat. Since they have auto brightness, it will increase the brightness in lower light situations. However, it's not the best I've seen on a wearable..
@@theblindlife What wearable would you recommend for night vision? In terms of being able to walk around in a low light conditions.
Can you wear glasses with it, or is that not an option?
They build you prescription lenses that can be put into the headset.
Another note these prescription inserts are easily available to remove and upgrade or remove and resell. It doesn’t make it permanent.
@@adampalmer614how do you try these I would like to try them
What about people who wear glasses and CANT wear contacts? like those with congenital cataracts without lens implants?
They build rx lenses that can be put in the device
Can you get a prescription in them?
Yes
Are there any similar examples of e sight Go with the same capabilities but at a lower price or available in the Middle East?
What in your opinion would be the best wearable for a totally blind person as of now? Awesome video!
Envision Pro
@@adampalmer614 OK, awesome! Do you have those glasses yourself?
Yes, I am a distributor for that product and it is comparable to OCAM. I have several customers that use it for their daily business needs and several that use it for their studies. It has some really great functions if you’d like to talk about it feel free to contact me.all my information is in the video. Just reach out if you were interested and I can at least walk through it with you and give you some comparisons. We are open Monday.
Orcam not Olcam
@@adampalmer614 I am interested. Are you referring to the video that I just watched, being this particular one? Is that where I can find your information? Thanks.
If I could afford them, I would buy them right now for my wife. But one day I will get to that point.
You should contact Adam Palmer at Palmer Vision to see if he has any special discounts or payment options.
The biggest problem with all of these devices is the price. You mentioned it $100 off the price if we buy it you never tell us what the price is. The price I saw online was $5000. That’s ridiculous. The Apple Vision Pro was $3500. If the Apple Vision Pro had the magnification app it would be better than the entire esight product line.
Makes you wonder if there’s some kind of… understanding.. between companies. They can’t let us get TOO much better. The price keeps many of us from the high-level stuff and the high-level stuff is ✨ juuuuuuust ✨ on the other side of being good enough. Like cancer. It’s much more profitable to ✨ treat ✨ cancer than it is to eliminate it.
How about a wearable device with OCR built-in?
There are several devices that have OCR but also have magnification. You can also have a wearable that is strictly OCRENVISION is a good device as well.
Thank you for the video, and pointing out the pros and cons that you experienced.
I prefer my physcial monocular mounted glasses, because you can tilt your head up and see the rest of the world without maginification.
Also there are no wires or other accessories.
I am concerned about the digital aspect of the device. Such as refresh rate, and like you said, contrast.
Thank you again for the video.
Neat product. But like you, I don’t think it would work very well with me. Do enjoy this new sneak peek opportunity! 😉
Well thanks for being a member!
Regarding the battery, I assume it is not a proprietary battery meaning you could use a power bank? Just thinking it might be nice to have a power bank in your backpack to use with this
Correct. I have a 20,000 ma/h mophie and works fine
I would love to see this functionality built into the Apple Vision Pro, and also have that battery offered separately for the Apple Vision Pro that would be pretty cool
I agree I did try this with the accessibility team. The only issue is the absence of a background which tends to make things fade away, and it doesn’t magnify. The voice feature on the headset, and the weight of this headset are very concerning.
@@adampalmer614it’s like these products are always juuust out of arms reach of being good enough. I suppose if it was good enough, you wouldn’t need to keep trying new and “betterl products.
Wondering if it's good for me I am a visual impaired with RP but also suffer with cateracts and I seeing very foggy now from the right eye as the left can't recognize anything .any help
You do have the ability to turn one eye off if you have one that is more difficult to use. This will increase your battery life, but it will limit your field of view, though some people say that it’s beneficial for the other one not to see the glasses. The hope is that it works for both of your eyes.
Is there a wearable that is good for CENTRAL vision loss like AMD? Thanks for your videos. Very helpful!
The patriot viewpoint or similar devices generally increase the screen size which also increases the ability for someone with central vision loss to use their peripheral vision better. If you have any questions, I’d be glad to answer them.
Like Adam said, the Patriot Viewpoint is great, currently my favorite wearable.
thnaks-I will check it out.this is all new to me so I don't even know what questions to ask.
Thank you for showing these! I suppose one thing I don’t get about companies like these is why they charge an arm and a 🍆 for stuff like this when it seems like VR/AR goggles could do the exact same thing. Of course there might be ROI to consider. It’s hard to tell where good, ethical business stops and exploitation begins.
Either way, thank you for bringing awareness to technology like this!
Great revuew! I am coning to the opinion that these devices that lack AI and OCR are not really trying. I've found that magnification without an equal increase in sharoness . resolution is causes eye strain and frustration. My vision has degraded to the point where I mostly cannot read and really need the text-to-speech and AI functions. Onee of your videdos showed an AI answering questions about a menu. The 1st outfit to put that together in a decent form factor with all the other usual functions is the one that may get my money. I had high hopes for Apple's VisionPro but the 1st version is nothing but a wearable iPad. Sigh.
I feel like we have the technology to do it, but the big companies don’t have a big enough incentive to develop the tech for our market. Makes me wonder if there’s some sort of visual aid mafia stopping companies from bringing new products to market, or if it truly is all focused on ROI
@@SalWare686 ROI is the reason every company exists. All they need to do is to understand our needs rather than inventing solutions and then telling us we need it. Just buy time with ChatGPT (or AI du jour) and hey can have a an intelligent reader. Privacy is a nig concern with AI though. Maybe we can get federal money to help our community?
Bummer. I was thinking it would help me. I've lost central vision both eyes and can't read anything and I miss that. I would love something that would help me to move around with confidence and be able to independently read menus, and my mail without having to rely on the translation from other people who don't just read everything you want to know because it's too hard for them or they figure you don't care about detail. So not true. I like the details and miss them!
Don't count it out so quickly, there are plenty of people with central vision loss eSight work for. I just have a very advanced case of central vision loss diagnosed almost 40 years ago.
@@theblindlife Thanks for the optimism. 👍
I just had my 10yr anniversary of losing central vision in one eye to optic neuritis which was extremely painful then 12 days ago lost the other to macular degeneration which I'm not convinced of having because I'm in a lot of pain with it. Still in mourning for the recent loss and frustrated whilst trying to adapt to voice to text adaptive technology which the AI in Google translation is garbage for. It is very glitchy and can't tell the difference between there, their and the contraction they are = they're. It's depressing when people try to point out whales on the coast and I can't even see them in the sea. They don't understand the struggle. I enjoy your channel because it clues me into the new tech available so I can stay hopeful that there may be something out there to help and try in the future. I'll find a way to adapt to this new change eventually. Keep up the good work! 💐
I’ve had a really really bad experience with eSight my $10,000 AUD eSight 4’s came and the software was really really buggy, the thing felt like it was built really bad (all plastic and rickety) and there was stuff inside in the lenses
It felt like a $100 device at most
Because that’s what it was and they exploited you, as per standard disability accommodation protocol. It’s hard to trust these people, knowing what they’re really offering you for the price.
For the price, let's see...
I bought eSight 4. Whatever the latest is.
Issues.
1. Must charge battery and unit separately. Errors (when not charged) are cryptic. Has to do with LED light: red, blue, white, blinking, etc. But... why? Just speak the status. After all, this is for the low vision folks, right? Also, just charge everything once.
2. Weight. Heavy. Quite so. Especially pn forehead.
3. Heat. The unit heats up quite a bit.
4. Screens. Not enough peripheral vision covered. More center vision item.
5. Screen distances. I can not set these up.
6. Turning on. 1 minute or more. Waaaaay too long. This is not a 90s computer. It should be ready in 10sec.
7. Control. Finger swipes? Should be voice control. We are still talking about VISION help, right? Make interaction with speech.
8. Settings. Badly dependent on being able to see. Make it speech interaction. "Hey, eSight. Set mode indoor" or "Set zoom 10" etc.
9. Focus. To refocus, one must press the power button (turns off screen) and then again (turns on screen, sets focus again). Make this speech interactive ("hey esight, refocus").
Also needs a wider field of vision when zooming in for reading.
The unit will also just sometimes shut down. No error, just shuts down. Thus thing needs to be SOLID for low vision folks.
There is more. This is just off the top.
These units are mighty expensive for their user friendliness and / or usefulness for those with low vision.
5 - you can use the gears on either side of the headset to set the distance from the screens to your eyes. Closer or further. And you can adjust the lateral positioning by sliding each screen.
It has a remote. You are not forced to use the swipe controls on the headset
8 -
You don’t have to see anything to navigate to settings because there’s a narrator that you can turn up and down. You can read everything to you.
@OrionTallica 5. They do not go far enough.
My mom cannot see or find the remote. Cumbersome.
Narrator is on. That is a nice feature. Still, you are blindly using a complex screen with only narrator feedback. My mom gave up trying, as she got lost in the menus. Much easier to give voice commands vs. blindly navigating a settings screen with multiple pulldowns and selections that depend on one another.
Sorry, I do not mean to be combative. These are the results of me using the headset, as well as my mom trying it. Everyone's results will vary.
@@gorgthesalty you don’t need to see the remote, you can feel your way around it. It really isn’t that cumbersome. It’s wireless.
As an eSight user, there’s not much need to go in the menu once you get it set up. Day-to-day life you’re not going in there.
Did she go through Coaching? You have lifetime coaching assistance. The coaches can connect to your unit and help control it and train her.
I don’t mean to be competitive either, but as somebody who has had an eSight three and four, a lot of of these complaints are easily solvable with a little bit of training
And frankly voice controls would take a lot more processing, eat up a lot more battery life, and I don’t think many users want to be talking to their headsets out in public.
I don’t see how saying “ Hey eSight, set Zoom to seven“ is easier than pressing an up arrow.
@OrionTallica She is in another country, so no coaching. But thanks, we will give the remote another shot. She is using the headset in default mode, just for zoom. For now.
Lookimg forward to when they put two cameras in this typ of device. No depth of field makes them near useless in many
circumstansees.
PS sorry great review dog !
10x the price i would pay. $5,000.00? Then why not buy the apple vision pro?
Price is way out of line, and unrealistic for what it is, and does. I could understand 1500 to 2000, but not 5000. I doubt even VRB would cover this. Size wise, it would be a better alternative to the Jordy system. Had that, until it just stopped working 15 years on, and then VRB wouldn't replace or have it serviced. So, into the bin it went. Geez. Thanks for the video.
Voc rehab does cover it. So does the VA
@@OrionTallica Not in this state. I've tried 3 times to get anew Jordy, and the Esight. If it's more than a grand, they won't provide it. Talk about stingy.
@@ThomasGrillo sorry to hear that. I’m out in California and I have
A friend in Nevada and Florida where vocational rehab helped. He said, varies from state to state. Lame