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Envision Launches Ask Envision: A Virtual Visual Assistant Built on ChatGPT Technology

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Envision, which was launched in 2021, can recognize faces, objects, colors, and even describe scenes around the user. In addition, it can translate any type of text into over 60 different languages.  Today the company announces the launch of Ask Envision, a virtual visual assistant built upon ChatGPT by OpenAI, for all editions of its smartglasses.

The new technology provides a level of utility and context on text scanned by the Envision Glasses, making it easier for users to access information and enjoy greater independence. Ask Envision provides an astonishing level of intelligence to deliver more in-depth information or answer questions about pieces of text scanned by the Envision Glasses. Users can easily scan any text, pose their questions, and answers are spoken out by the glasses in the language of their choice with just one tap within the Scan Text feature.

Ask Envision is now available to all Envision Glasses customers, along with several other key features. These include Ally Video Calling, which enables Envision users to make hands-free video calls to chosen family and friends directly from the smart glasses for personal support and visual interpretation, and Aira Integration, which allows Envision users to call Aira agents, who provide professional human-to-human, visual interpreting 24/7, directly from their Envision Glasses.

Ask Envision
Ask Envision

Scene Recognition provides the user with a visual interpretation of the scene seen through the glasses, while Facial Recognition enables Envision users to teach their smart glasses to recognize faces, allowing them to tell the user who is in the room or at a location when it recognizes the face.

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Envision Glasses also come with Instant Text, Scan Text, and Batch Scan, enabling users to read any type of short text, such as signs and labels, and read aloud more enhanced text, such as letters and documents, with Scan Text.

Layout Detection provides a more realistic reading environment by deciphering the document layout and giving verbal guidance to the user. Envision Glasses also have Enhanced Offline Language Capabilities, recognizing four additional Asian languages accurately when offline, and Bank Note/Currency Recognition, recognizing banknotes in over 100 currencies.

Document Guidance for Accurate Capture removes the frustrations of taking multiple images to fully capture a document’s complete text, and Optimizing Optical Character Recognition has significantly improved image capture and interpretation accuracy through processing tens of millions of data points by the Envision Glasses and Apps.

Julie Nguyen
Julie Nguyen

Julie is the founder of SNAP TASTE and a driving force in global storytelling, innovation, and creative leadership. A respected member of the Harvard Business Review Advisory Council, she also serves as a judge for the CES Innovation Awards (2024, 2025, and 2026), bringing her perspective to the intersections of business, culture, and breakthrough technologies.

Her immersive reporting has taken audiences behind the scenes of defining world moments, from the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 and Expo 2020 Dubai to CES, D23 Expo, and the Milano Monza Motor Show. Through her lens, global events become intimate, human stories.

An accomplished film critic and editorial voice, Julie has built a reputation for reviews that go beyond analysis, finding the heartbeat within the frame. Her work on National Geographic documentaries and other cinematic works speaks to audiences who believe that great storytelling has the power to shift perspectives and expand the world.

At the heart of everything Julie does is a belief that art, technology, and culture are not separate conversations. She has spent her career proving they never were.

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