Dr. Yonatan Wexler
Head of Research and Development at OrCam
Jerusalem, Israel
OrCam – See for yourself
One of the hardest thing about being visually impaired is the limited access to information. In our age, information is the key to success in any field. Being able to read anything, anywhere, allows children to excel in their studies and changes their career plans and opportunities.
OrCam is a revolutionary device that whispers in your ear the information you can no longer see. It instantly reads anything you tell it to read, on any surface and sign, faster than a human would. It tells you which friend is approaching, what product you are holding, and more. By making information instantly available, it is the first device that focuses on navigating the intellect and not just the physical world.
Dr. Yonatan Wexler is an award winning researcher in the field of Computer Vision who has conducted research at the University of Maryland, Oxford University, the Weizmann Institute of Science, and Microsoft. His focus is on efficient use of visual information that enables exciting new abilities. Yonatan currently leads the R&D team at OrCam, a company that has developed a unique device for blind and visually impaired people. OrCam harnesses the power of Artificial Vision to compensate for lost visual abilities thus enabling visually impaired people to overcome the barriers that impede their independence.