eSight Go Demonstration Deep Dive!
Welcome to another Tech Connect presented by the Vision Forward Association!
Last time, we unboxed the brand new eSight Go and went over the hardware and development history of this new wearable magnifier. If you want to start from the beginning, follow this link to part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5COiv-tMVU
Today we are going to demonstrate the various modes of this new device and see just how well it preforms in a variety of situations! This includes: low and high light level environments, close-up and distance viewing, brightness and contrast settings, color filters, stabilization and tilt adjustment, and perhaps most importantly we tested how this device feels to use for longer periods of time. Our Assistive Technology Experts have run this device through its paces and they are excited to share their findings with everyone.
0:00 Start,
0:20 Recap from Previous Unboxing, Preview of the tests,
2:30 Hardware Overview, Button Controls Explained
7:45 eSight Go Companion App,
8:20 Close Reading Test, Zoom, Stabilization,
12:10 Color Modes, Filters, Contrast Options,
16:00 Distance Reading Test, Freezing an Image for further zoom
21:45 Contrast Test done at distance,
24:00 Low Light Test, Brightness options,
26:50 Television Mode featuring Sam from The Blind Life www.youtube.com/@theblindlife
29:15 Outdoor Viewing Test featuring long distance, freezeframe, contrast and brightness
31:35 Wrap-Up Review of the eSight Go by Gentex considering this series of tests
33:50 Upcoming Videos and Events, check out our LMS for free ACVREP Credits!
If you have any additional questions about the eSight Go, the older versions, or any other wearable magnifiers on the market, please add those down in the comment section and we will endeavor to help!
Join us next time on Tech Connect, and be sure to leave your thoughts down in the comments below and ask plenty of questions!
Vision Forward's Tech Connect continues to bring you the information you need to make the most out of your devices. Our experts know there are many factors to consider, so if you have any follow up questions please post them in the comments and we will help you find the assistive tech that's best for you.
Join us, find the schedule by visiting out website:
https://vision-forward.org/techconnect
Contact Vision Forward Association:
Call us: (414-615-0103)
Email us: infocus@vision-forward.org
Visit us online: https://www.vision-forward.org
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Looking for the full playlist?
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Catch-up with our most recent episodes!
"Elizabeth Evans with Maggie iVR: Another Wearable Electronic magnifier!"
https://www.youtube.com/live/2-kfxFJP6fs
"Its Go Time for eSight Go!" Lightweight Wearable Magnifier Device!
https://www.youtu
Last time, we unboxed the brand new eSight Go and went over the hardware and development history of this new wearable magnifier. If you want to start from the beginning, follow this link to part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5COiv-tMVU
Today we are going to demonstrate the various modes of this new device and see just how well it preforms in a variety of situations! This includes: low and high light level environments, close-up and distance viewing, brightness and contrast settings, color filters, stabilization and tilt adjustment, and perhaps most importantly we tested how this device feels to use for longer periods of time. Our Assistive Technology Experts have run this device through its paces and they are excited to share their findings with everyone.
0:00 Start,
0:20 Recap from Previous Unboxing, Preview of the tests,
2:30 Hardware Overview, Button Controls Explained
7:45 eSight Go Companion App,
8:20 Close Reading Test, Zoom, Stabilization,
12:10 Color Modes, Filters, Contrast Options,
16:00 Distance Reading Test, Freezing an Image for further zoom
21:45 Contrast Test done at distance,
24:00 Low Light Test, Brightness options,
26:50 Television Mode featuring Sam from The Blind Life www.youtube.com/@theblindlife
29:15 Outdoor Viewing Test featuring long distance, freezeframe, contrast and brightness
31:35 Wrap-Up Review of the eSight Go by Gentex considering this series of tests
33:50 Upcoming Videos and Events, check out our LMS for free ACVREP Credits!
If you have any additional questions about the eSight Go, the older versions, or any other wearable magnifiers on the market, please add those down in the comment section and we will endeavor to help!
Join us next time on Tech Connect, and be sure to leave your thoughts down in the comments below and ask plenty of questions!
Vision Forward's Tech Connect continues to bring you the information you need to make the most out of your devices. Our experts know there are many factors to consider, so if you have any follow up questions please post them in the comments and we will help you find the assistive tech that's best for you.
Join us, find the schedule by visiting out website:
https://vision-forward.org/techconnect
Contact Vision Forward Association:
Call us: (414-615-0103)
Email us: infocus@vision-forward.org
Visit us online: https://www.vision-forward.org
Online Store: https://www.vision-forward.org/store
Want more Tech Connect in your life? Try us Live! Be sure to join us for the upcoming YouTube Live! show on October 10th at 11am CST.
Looking for the full playlist?
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdZ61dAGaL_k3I-_LcTPozan9upCqY8Yc
Catch-up with our most recent episodes!
"Elizabeth Evans with Maggie iVR: Another Wearable Electronic magnifier!"
https://www.youtube.com/live/2-kfxFJP6fs
"Its Go Time for eSight Go!" Lightweight Wearable Magnifier Device!
https://www.youtu
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00:00Hello and welcome back to another exciting TechConnect video.
00:03In this video, we are taking a deep dive into the eSight Go,
00:06taking a look at its buttons and features,
00:09just waiting for Corey so we can start the video.
00:11Oh wait, there he is. Let's go.
00:14As Luke mentioned,
00:22we are taking a look at the brand new eSight Go.
00:26If you've been following our channel or at least
00:28the evolution of the eSight device,
00:30you will know that this is the fifth iteration, I would say.
00:33We have a number of videos on the past eSight devices.
00:37We actually had an unboxing of the brand new eSight Go.
00:41So when you're done with this one,
00:42or maybe even pause this one and go check out that first.
00:45Yeah, because then you get an idea of what comes
00:46included with it and what we thought about the box.
00:49Yeah.
00:49How many ply card the box was.
00:51Sixteen, I believe is what we just determined.
00:53Well, you have to watch the video and find out.
00:55Also, we did a great interview with Jeanette,
00:59who works for Gen Techs,
01:00who now owns, who purchased eSight.
01:04Go check that out. It was one of
01:06our most recent Tech Connect Lives.
01:08We spent about 45 minutes or more talking with her.
01:11She's an employee, but also a user and has been for
01:14a lot of years and provided a lot of great information.
01:17But today, as we promised,
01:19everybody has been asking for it.
01:21We are going to dive deep into the eSight Go,
01:24and we have a lot of tests that we are going to cover today.
01:28First, we're going to talk about the hardware overview.
01:32We'll just give a little brief synopsis of the device,
01:35the button layout.
01:36Then we're going to run some tests.
01:37We're going to do a close-up test.
01:40So reading a book, some kind of material.
01:42We're going to do distance using it,
01:45looking at far in the distance.
01:46Different distances as well.
01:48We will do multiple distances under one test though.
01:51Oh, okay.
01:52We'll also do a test on color sensitivity.
01:57We'll do a test on low-light performance.
01:59How does it work in low-light situations?
02:03We're going to take a look at how does it perform
02:04when trying to watch TV.
02:06And last, we're going to take it outside and see how it does
02:10in conditions that maybe are very sunny,
02:13although I'm not sure today is super sunny.
02:17But we're going to put it through its paces.
02:19All of these tests are feedback that we've gotten
02:22from viewers that ask questions about our other wearables.
02:25And so we want to make sure we give you everything
02:27that you're looking for.
02:28So stick with us.
02:31Before we dive into some of the tests,
02:33we should go over the hardware overview.
02:35Otherwise you're not going to know how to use it, Luke.
02:38You need to pay attention as I talk about this.
02:42There's actually two main pieces to the eSight Go.
02:44First, we're going to talk about the battery pack.
02:47So the way they've designed it this time
02:49is kind of a horseshoe design
02:51that actually fits around your neck.
02:53And then the batteries on each side
02:56and they kind of lean against your shoulder blades.
02:59Quite comfortable.
03:00I don't really feel it at all when it's on.
03:03I think it's a smart design.
03:05Keeps the weight down, especially from the headset.
03:08There's really only two main things that you need to know
03:11about the battery pack.
03:12First, on the back, there is a USB-C port.
03:16That's going to be used to both charge your battery pack,
03:19but also it's used to connect your battery pack
03:21directly to the eSight Go glasses.
03:24And then right above that,
03:26you're going to find a single button.
03:27Pressing that button will light up four LEDs.
03:30Yes, you got it.
03:31And that will let you know your battery status visually.
03:35But the eSight Go will also show you your battery status
03:38on the glasses and speak it out verbally.
03:41But if you don't have your eSight Go glasses connected,
03:44then you can just get a quick overview
03:46of what your battery status looks like.
03:48Interestingly, with the previous eSight,
03:50you could shake the batteries to see the LED indicators.
03:53Is that right?
03:54I didn't even know they did that.
03:54Yeah, it was actually really hard to do though.
03:55So I'm glad that they put a button on this one instead.
03:57I think too many people shook it
03:59and they flew out of their hands and broke a window.
04:01So it's probably good that they did that.
04:03Moving on to the second piece
04:05and obviously probably the most important piece,
04:07that is the eSight Go glasses themselves.
04:10I find these to be pretty good.
04:12Now, are they traditional sunglasses or glasses?
04:16No, we're not there yet.
04:18But I would say it's getting pretty close
04:20and these might be one of the closest there.
04:23I think the arms are a little thicker than you would expect
04:26and the glasses themselves are still thicker.
04:28But all in all, it's a pretty light device and comfortable.
04:33I believe the headset and the battery pack together
04:37weighs a little over 13 ounces.
04:39So it's pretty light all in all.
04:41Yeah, just one quick thing as well,
04:43for those who aren't familiar with wearables,
04:45this device has got a camera in the front
04:47and video screens on the inside.
04:48And so as you are wearing the device,
04:50you are seeing on the video screens
04:52what the camera is looking at
04:53and then you can adjust the image through magnification
04:55and various other features.
04:57Yeah, which will be shown.
04:57I do believe the camera is mounted right in the center,
05:00right above my nose.
05:01And as Luke said, there's screens in front of each of my eyes
05:07which obviously makes the glass,
05:09the front part thicker than you would expect
05:11because it's housing all that electronics in there.
05:14While the glasses are on,
05:15they are pretty comfortable all in all.
05:19If you saw our unboxing,
05:21you notice it came with four different ear pieces.
05:24Ear pieces?
05:24Nose pieces is what I meant to say.
05:27So you wanna make sure you adjust and get the right one
05:29so that the glasses are kind of seated correctly
05:33on your face so that their screens
05:35are lined up with your eyes.
05:37Or if it's feeling uncomfortable,
05:38make sure that you have the right nose piece in.
05:43Buttons, on the left arm,
05:45we have starting from my ear and moving towards the front.
05:49The first thing we come to is not a button,
05:51but actually the USB-C port.
05:53As I mentioned on the battery pack,
05:57there's a USB-C port.
05:58So we're gonna run a short USB cable
06:01from our eSight Go glasses to the battery pack
06:05and that's how they're powered.
06:07Moving towards my temple,
06:10we're gonna have one single button
06:13and that's our power button.
06:14Holding it down will wake it up
06:15and power it on or power it off.
06:19Tapping it once will either put it to sleep
06:22or wake it back up,
06:23depending on what status it's currently in.
06:26Exactly.
06:27On the right-hand side,
06:28if we start again back from my ear and move up,
06:31the first button we have is our settings button.
06:34Pressing that once brings us into settings.
06:36Holding it down freezes the image,
06:38which you'll show us later.
06:40As we continue to move away from my ear,
06:43the first button we come to now,
06:45or I should say our second button,
06:47is the volume down key or the down arrow.
06:51Depending on what mode you're in,
06:53it's going to adjust volume or color contrast,
06:57whatever you might be in or contrast, I should say.
07:00As we continue moving, we have a up button.
07:03That's obviously going to do the opposite.
07:05Opposite of the down.
07:06Very good.
07:07Our last button closest to our tempo
07:10is going to be the mode button.
07:14Pressing this is going to switch through the different modes,
07:17which Luke will be showing us in just a moment.
07:20Pressing and holding it will actually reset our view
07:23and kind of take us back to the default mode.
07:26So now that we know what all the buttons are
07:29and we know how to use the device,
07:31let's dive in and do our first test,
07:33which will be utilizing it for a closeup or reading tasks.
07:38Koei, let's go.
07:40E-Sight Go?
07:44Before we jump into our test,
07:45we did want to mention the E-Sight Go companion app.
07:49This allows you to do a couple of cool things.
07:50First, it does allow you to connect your glasses
07:53to a wifi network.
07:55You can do it from the glasses,
07:56but from the app's a little bit easier.
07:58And secondly, you can share your view.
08:01So any sighted friends or family or trainers
08:05can see what you're seeing through your glasses
08:08on their screen,
08:09making it a way for them to help you
08:12and take part in what you're seeing.
08:15And that's how we're recording the footage today, Koei,
08:17just recording from our phone screen.
08:18We are.
08:19Yep, so hopefully it's working well.
08:20And here we are going to start the first test,
08:22which is reading up close.
08:23Obviously, Koei, this is something
08:24that a lot of people want to be able to do.
08:26Yes.
08:27And it's not necessarily the easiest thing
08:29to do with wearables,
08:30because it can be hard to keep your head steady
08:32as you're trying to track sentences when they're magnified.
08:34So not necessarily the best way to read,
08:37but it is something a lot of people want to do.
08:39So to do the test with the eSight, Koei,
08:41I have my favorite book,
08:43and I'm sure you're familiar with this one.
08:44Yes.
08:45I Love You More, Baby Saw.
08:46Oh, I love you too.
08:47Oh, sorry.
08:48Yes, that is one of my favorites.
08:50So we're going to go ahead and zoom in on this book
08:52and look at some of the pictures on the text
08:54and change the colors.
08:55But Koei, we also have another nifty feature,
08:57which is unique to the eSight Go,
08:59and that would be the tilt function.
09:01And that allows us to tilt the camera down
09:03in order to see things which are kind of,
09:05you know, below our eye level
09:07without having to bend our neck so much.
09:09So for reading, that's really nice
09:10because you're not having to crank your neck
09:11in order to see the book.
09:13So I'm excited to try that out.
09:14I'm going to go ahead and use my mode button here.
09:17We're going to go through to where it says tilt.
09:20And now I'm going to use the down arrow to reduce the tilt,
09:23and that will basically bring the camera down.
09:25This is a digital tilt here, not an analog tilt,
09:28but it doesn't really make a difference.
09:30I've just tilted down, and now I can see the book
09:32even though I'm holding it fairly low
09:34and I'm not actually cranking my neck at all at the moment.
09:36So this is really nice and comfortable.
09:39So I can see the title, I Love You More, Baby Saw.
09:41I'm going to switch the mode back to magnification
09:44and we'll zoom in on the title here.
09:49I'm at zoom five.
09:49This is quite large and I can read it.
09:51Now I'm not visually impaired.
09:52However, I do have a high hyperopic glasses prescription
09:55and I can't read without my glasses on.
09:57And I don't have my glasses on at the moment,
10:00but I am able to read this nice and comfortably
10:02now that I have zoomed in.
10:03The zoom goes up to 24 times, Corey,
10:06so that's best in class for these wearables.
10:08You can really make things very large, which is nice.
10:11Here's the picture of the dinosaur.
10:13We have a, I'm going to say Diplodocus,
10:15although I think they might have been renamed.
10:17Any ideas, Corey?
10:19What are Diplodocuses called these days?
10:21No.
10:22Okay, good.
10:23If you know, please put it in the comments.
10:26But the color reproduction is very nice.
10:28It looks quite naturalistic.
10:29It's not too overhyped or anything.
10:32Sometimes the overhyping of the colors can be helpful
10:35just to help you kind of see what colors there are.
10:37But this one does look really nice.
10:39I'm going to go ahead and open the page here.
10:41And again, I've got a picture here.
10:43Very nice color reproduction.
10:44Let's look at the words.
10:45Now these are a little fuzzy to me
10:46just because again, I haven't got my glasses on.
10:48So I'm going to zoom up a little bit higher.
10:50Oops.
10:51Let's get back to the zoom here.
10:54Six, six, six, nine.
10:56Okay, I'm on the zoom nine at the moment.
10:58I can read, you make my heart soar.
11:01That's S-A-U-R, dinosaur fans.
11:04Above trees and mountains too.
11:06So yes, I'm able to read that pretty good.
11:08Now there is image stabilization going on here, Corey.
11:11And so it's not, the image isn't jumping about too much,
11:14which is pretty cool because at this level of magnification,
11:18oftentimes people do struggle with the image bouncing around.
11:21And this seems to be a newer feature
11:23that's starting to be added.
11:24We saw it in the iDaptic 5, right?
11:27And now we're seeing it in the new eSight Go,
11:29this image stabilization.
11:31And I think it's going to make a big difference for wearables.
11:34That's always been an issue is that jitteriness,
11:36especially on your head when you're talking
11:38or moving your head around.
11:39Yeah, that's exactly.
11:40I think it's always been there to some extent,
11:42but it just seems to be a lot better now.
11:43Sure.
11:44I mean, I'm literally talking while wearing this
11:46and the image is staying really stable.
11:48So I think they've done a fantastic job
11:49with the image stabilization here.
11:51Let's zoom up a little higher and let's see.
11:55So I'm on the 17 times now, which is really quite high.
11:59And you can see like a little bit of fuzziness
12:02at the higher magnification levels here.
12:03That's pretty normal for this type of device.
12:05It's certainly not unusable
12:07and it's certainly a really nice size.
12:09So that's good.
12:10Let's quickly try out some of the color modes here.
12:12So I'm going to switch into the color filters mode
12:17and I'll see what colors we've got available here.
12:20Okay, so we have a gray scale.
12:21This is just black and white
12:23and that's working absolutely fine.
12:26And now we have white text on a black background.
12:29Now, unfortunately, as I move my head here,
12:32the image kind of glitches out a little bit
12:34and becomes, well, you guys should be able
12:37to see what's happening,
12:38but it's a lot of noise in the image basically.
12:41So when you don't have that noise,
12:43it looks really nice and sharp, deep blacks
12:45and sharp whites, but yeah,
12:48the noise really makes it a little unusable.
12:50Just adjusting your zoom level,
12:54if you bring your zoom level down,
12:55does that decrease the noise at all
12:57or is it sort of across the board?
12:59So let me reduce the magnification.
13:01We'll check it out here.
13:04Yeah, and I got to say, Corey,
13:05that did make a big difference.
13:06Yeah, so it's a lot better now.
13:08It is still having some funky effects
13:10around the outside of the text,
13:13which is inside like an oval.
13:15So weirdly now, outside of the oval,
13:17it's kind of glitching out,
13:18but inside the oval where the text is,
13:19it's all nice and clear.
13:20So yeah, it's kind of interesting.
13:22I mean, there is obviously some processing going on here.
13:25And so it's trying to figure out
13:27kind of how to apply this color.
13:28And it looks like maybe the algorithm
13:30needs to be tweaked a little bit
13:31just to get the most out of it,
13:32which I'm sure they could do in a future update.
13:34Let's just check out some of the other colors real quick here
13:36and see what we have available.
13:38So we're on white and black at the moment.
13:40We also have a black text on a white background
13:43and that one's actually looking pretty good,
13:45probably better than the white text on a black background.
13:48And then we have a blue text on a yellow background,
13:51yellow text on a blue background.
13:53That's probably my favorite one.
13:54Yeah, that looks really nice.
13:55And then back to normal.
13:56So not too many choices, but they've got the important ones.
13:59It's just a shame that there's that kind of weird issue
14:02with the noise there.
14:04But yeah, if you can get it so that that noise is reduced
14:07and maybe it does take reducing the magnification,
14:10then it does look pretty nice.
14:12And you've been using the buttons on the device itself
14:14to control it, but it does come with a wireless remote,
14:17which our box unfortunately had a little apology note.
14:21Yeah, it did.
14:22And then one thing I didn't mention
14:23is I talked about the companion app
14:26that if you do share your view, when you do so,
14:29you have some virtual controls that pop up on your device,
14:33your iPhone, your Android,
14:35and you can control it that way too.
14:36But you've been just using the built-in one.
14:38Yeah, just the buttons.
14:39It's really easy to operate
14:40because there's not too many buttons
14:41and there's not too many choices.
14:43I'm looking at a magazine now
14:44just to take a look at some of the pictures on here.
14:46It's a glossy magazine.
14:47And again, color reproduction, as far as I can tell, is nice.
14:50I think the colors look natural,
14:53but also they kind of do pop in it in a way,
14:55which makes it easy to see them.
14:57And we'll just quickly look at some of the text in here.
14:59This would be standard size magazine prints.
15:01So a little bit smaller
15:02than what you would get in a children's book,
15:03like I was just reading.
15:04And we'll use our zoom here.
15:06And let's get it up to 21 times.
15:10Okay, so we're really pumped up
15:12and we are starting to see some of that fuzziness
15:14a bit more now, Corey.
15:15So the image is definitely a little fuzzier,
15:18but it's still like the stabilization
15:20is still working well.
15:22Good.
15:22And I am able to read the words here.
15:25Now, obviously, results are gonna vary
15:27depending on your vision loss.
15:29But for me, this is working pretty good.
15:32So yeah, all in all, Corey,
15:35I do think it will be feasible to read with the eSight.
15:37And that's one of the challenging things for a wearable.
15:39So pretty good so far.
15:41Would you say it passed the reading test?
15:45I think it did.
15:46I think it passed the reading test.
15:47I won't ask for a grade.
15:48No, no, no.
15:49We'll do a pass fail.
15:50Yeah, yeah.
15:51And you know, obviously results will vary
15:52depending on the individual.
15:53So I don't like to say definitively
15:55that this is the answer for you.
15:57However, I did find that to work pretty well.
15:59So why don't we move on to the next test, Corey?
16:01And we can see how this thing works
16:03while looking into the distance.
16:06Okay, so we saw how this performs up close,
16:08but let's take a look into the distance.
16:10I have my lovely assistant, Corey Ballard,
16:13ready with a chart and we're going to try reading it.
16:16So first things first, let's rotate toward Corey here.
16:19And he is with the Snellen chart there.
16:21It does say for use at five feet,
16:22but we've got him at 10 feet away at the moment.
16:25I'm going to go ahead and zoom in
16:26and I'm going to see what I'm able to read on the chart.
16:28Now, just for comparison's sake,
16:30with the glasses off, I can't read anything on the chart.
16:34So that's where we're starting from.
16:36Hold on.
16:37Nope, I can't read anything either.
16:39Can't keep it checking.
16:40So let's go ahead and zoom in here.
16:43All right, I am at 10 times at the moment
16:47and I'm starting to be able to read the letters on the chart
16:50and we have an F and a P at the top and an L, F, E, D.
16:53Still a little hard for me to read though
16:55and I can't read what's under that second line.
16:57So I'm going to zoom up a little further here.
17:01Now I'm on 17 times and it really has started
17:04to become a lot clearer at this point.
17:07So I can clearly see the F and the P at the start.
17:09L, P, E, D, and then an E, D, F, C, Z, P,
17:13a D, E, F, P, O, T, E, C.
17:17And underneath that, I'm struggling a little bit.
17:20Let me try and zoom in a touch more.
17:24I'm at 22 times now, almost at the maximum.
17:27I can read the next line, L, E, R, O, D, F, G, T, I think
17:33but it is a little fuzzy and the bottom line,
17:35unfortunately, I'm not able to read.
17:37But having read most of the lines there,
17:40when I couldn't read any of the lines before,
17:42that's obviously a big improvement.
17:44Now, Corey is currently at 10 feet away
17:47but let's put this thing to the limits.
17:50We're going to ask Corey to step back a few more steps
17:53and we'll see what we can do.
17:54Corey, are you able to step back a few more steps?
17:56Sure, what would you like me to go to?
17:5815?
17:59Let's try and go to 15.
17:59There is a tree behind you, so be a little bit careful.
18:01Okay, so I'm at 10.
18:02We'll do, I'm taking bigger steps.
18:06That's probably about 15.
18:07Let's go back a touch more.
18:08Touch more?
18:09Yeah, let's really try and put this to its paces.
18:11Okay, let's stop there.
18:11So we're quite far back,
18:13maybe between 15 and 20 here at the moment.
18:16And again, we'll go ahead and zoom in
18:18and just see how this works.
18:19So I'm going to go up to, all right.
18:23So at 20, then it's, you know,
18:26the larger ones are starting to be nice and comfortable.
18:28So we've got F, B, L, D, E, D, E, D, R, C, ooh, Z, P.
18:34Okay, I think that's right.
18:36And then we're going to zoom a little bit more.
18:42And okay, unfortunately, that was the third line down.
18:45I was just reading.
18:46Unfortunately, the fourth line down this time
18:49is just a little bit too fuzzy.
18:50I can see a couple of letters in E and R,
18:53G and a T maybe.
18:54But yeah, it's a little bit tricky.
18:56Now let's try and do this though.
18:58Instead of zooming in all the way
19:00and doing the live magnification,
19:01I'm actually going to do the image freeze,
19:03which Corby had mentioned before.
19:04So we can hold down the settings button
19:06that will freeze the image.
19:07So I'm going to do that.
19:08And the image is now frozen on the screen.
19:11Now at this point, I can magnify the frozen image.
19:13So I'm looking at a picture of the chart this time,
19:16and I'm going to go ahead and zoom in on the picture.
19:19Let me just do this.
19:20Okay, now I'm zooming in on the picture.
19:23I can move my head and it has got gyroscope,
19:26so it will detect my head movement.
19:27And so I can kind of look around the magnified image
19:30and I can see the F, P, L, P, E, D, E, D, F, C, Z, P.
19:35And the line underneath that is still fuzzy,
19:37but I have to say it is easier to read at distance like this
19:41because the image is a lot more stable.
19:43And so it does help me to keep everything steady
19:46as I'm trying to read.
19:47So I do think that freeze will work well
19:49for looking and trying to read things
19:51in the distance for sure.
19:53Rather than just reading from the distance,
19:55Luke, what about if you instead focused on my face,
19:59which maybe is what somebody might be doing
20:02looking at sports or something off in the distance,
20:05are you able to get any features of my handsome face?
20:09You know, I was going to do that, Corey,
20:11but I was slightly scared.
20:12But for the sake of the video, we'll give it a try.
20:14So we're at 19 times here.
20:17Corey's head is basically filling the screen here.
20:20And yeah, I can see-
20:21Sounds about right.
20:21Yeah, it's a large head.
20:23I can see you in good detail here.
20:25I have to say, yeah,
20:26like the features are coming through nicely.
20:28Again, a little bit fuzzier at the higher magnifications,
20:30but I can definitely tell it's you.
20:32So no problems there.
20:34One more thing we're going to try real quick here, Corey,
20:36is we'll try the different colors at distance.
20:39And so I'll look at the chart again here.
20:41And we're going to go to our color filter mode.
20:42Let's see if we still get that noise in the image.
20:45So we'll go ahead and flip over to...
20:49Oops, sorry, I'm on contrast there.
20:50There we go.
20:51Let's flip through to the white on black.
20:54And we'll zoom up just a little bit here.
20:57And yeah, so the white and the blacks, again,
20:59are really nice and kind of really bright whites
21:02and dark blacks.
21:04But unfortunately, the ghosting, sorry,
21:06the noise that we're getting here on the image
21:09kind of makes it unusable to read
21:11at this magnification at this distance.
21:13I can see the largest letters,
21:14but below that, unfortunately, it really gets quite messy.
21:17So again, we do seem to have that same type of issue there
21:21with those color filters, which is unfortunate.
21:24Anyway, I think that's enough distance testing.
21:27We can see there that it does work pretty well
21:28for reading in the distance
21:29and looking at objects in the distance.
21:31And with the level of magnification that you get,
21:34you really can zoom up on things that are quite far away.
21:36So that's pretty nice.
21:38Next thing to do though, Corey,
21:39is test the contrast sensitivity
21:41and see what we can do
21:42if things just need a little bit more contrast.
21:46All right, so time for the contrast sensitivity test.
21:49And luckily, with the booklet that eSight provide,
21:51we do actually have some numbers on a page
21:54which are getting less and less contrasty
21:56and we can use the contrast adjustment on the eSight
21:59to hopefully make those a little easier to see.
22:01So let's see how it works.
22:02I'm going to turn toward Corey here.
22:03We are in zoom mode at the moment.
22:04So I'm going to go ahead and zoom up on this page.
22:08Here we go.
22:10Okay, and at the top of the page,
22:12we have numbers which are pretty dark here.
22:14So we're starting without needing any contrast enhancement.
22:16We can see a 2, 3, 6, 3, 5, a 3, 9, 4, 1, 7.
22:20Hey, that's my phone number.
22:22Yeah.
22:23And after that though,
22:24things are starting to get pretty difficult to see,
22:27a lot less contrast.
22:28So this is where we're going to use the contrast function
22:30of the eSight to bring those into sharper relief.
22:33I'm going to go ahead and go to the contrast mode.
22:35I'm going to hit the up arrow here
22:39and we're starting to add contrast.
22:45And I'm on contrast 4 currently.
22:47And I can definitely see a couple more lines here,
22:50nice and clearly.
22:52So I've got a 1, 3, 8, 2, 6, and a 6, 8, 9, 4, 5.
22:55Now there is one more line here that I just,
22:58it's just not quite in sharp enough relief yet.
23:00Let me see if I can increase the contrast even more.
23:06Okay, and it's not really helping on that bottom line.
23:09Let me try some magnification instead here.
23:16Yeah.
23:17So 2, 9, 4, 7, 9, could that be right?
23:21It's something like that.
23:22It's definitely still quite washed out.
23:23So we're not quite getting that bottom line,
23:25but we are, again, about 10 feet away here.
23:27So this is a distance test, remember.
23:29And this contrast could be used up close
23:31or in the distance,
23:32depending on what you're trying to look at.
23:33And it does appear like it's done a pretty good job
23:36for the most part of enhancing the contrast.
23:38Now we do have some of those kind of weird visual glitches
23:41that we've already discussed
23:43with some of those color filter modes.
23:45There is a little bit of that going on
23:47with the contrast mode here as well.
23:48And so that's something to be aware of,
23:50but it did seem to be a lot more controlled
23:52than with some of those color filters.
23:54So definitely a useful feature to have.
23:56If you need a little bit more contrast,
23:58just get into the mode and give it a try.
24:02Okay, so now for the low light test.
24:04I know a lot of people do ask for this test
24:06when we do wearable demonstrations,
24:08and we want to see how it's going to perform
24:10in low light conditions.
24:11Now I'm well lit at the moment
24:13because I have a studio light on me,
24:14but this room is actually quite dark.
24:16Corey, how dark do you think the room is right now?
24:18Very dark.
24:19Very dark.
24:20On a scale of dark to very dark,
24:22we're currently two slots down from very dark.
24:25Okay, fair enough.
24:26Now, obviously this is a camera-based device,
24:28so we do need a light in order for it to work.
24:31So we can't just make it pitch black,
24:33but it is pretty darn dark in here right now.
24:36We want to see how well the eSight does
24:39in brightening up the image for us.
24:40So Corey is still over there, bless his heart,
24:43and he's holding the booklet from eSight.
24:47And Corey, what page are we turned to at the moment?
24:49Today we're finding out if you can tell the time
24:51with an analog clock.
24:53Not many people can anymore.
24:54Yeah, I was going to say,
24:54that's a big challenge just by itself,
24:56nevermind in the dark with a wearable.
24:57But let's go ahead and zoom in on this
24:59and we'll see what this looks like.
25:03And yep, I can easily tell that that is quarter past nine.
25:07Actually, do you know what?
25:08The minute hand and the second hand look,
25:11and the hour hand, sorry, look to be the same length,
25:13so that's slightly confusing.
25:14But yeah, there's a hand on the nine
25:16and a hand on the three.
25:18I can see you, Corey, without any problem at all.
25:21And I can see what you're holding there
25:23without any problem at all.
25:24I'm looking around the room here
25:25and it's really quite bright already.
25:28Now, something that you pointed out, Corey,
25:30when we tried to film this video before.
25:32When you called me stupid.
25:33When I may have said something unkind to you,
25:36is that the screens have adjustable brightness.
25:40And actually that does a really good job
25:42of brightening things up even more.
25:44So if we go into our settings menu here,
25:47and I'm gonna go down to the settings
25:50and we'll go to brightness.
25:52By default, it's set to auto,
25:53so the screens will automatically adjust,
25:55but I'm gonna turn that off.
25:56We're gonna go into manual here
25:58and we're gonna try our screens at 100%.
26:03And they are now super bright.
26:05Like the screens really get very bright,
26:07which I think a lot of people will like that.
26:09Now, obviously it's gonna impact your battery life,
26:11but let's see how that changes things here.
26:15For you guys watching,
26:16you're probably not gonna see the effect of this
26:18in the screen recording,
26:20because this is actually the screens inside the headset
26:22and how bright they are.
26:23But I am gonna report to you
26:24that this does make a massive difference.
26:26Things are even brighter now.
26:28It literally looks like daytime at this point.
26:30Now, the image is a little grainy
26:32and you would expect that
26:33because it's having to compensate
26:35for the low light conditions.
26:36But everything is still perfectly recognizable
26:39and I'm really quite impressed
26:40with the low light performance here.
26:43So yeah, if you're in the market for a device
26:45which improves your low light vision,
26:48then definitely give this one a try.
26:49I think it's one of the better ones.
26:52Obviously something that a lot of people like to do
26:54with their wearable is watch television.
26:56And so here I am checking out my TV.
26:59This is around a 65 or 70 inch television
27:01and I'm around 15 feet away from it.
27:03It's mounted on the wall here.
27:05Up on the screen, I have a very handsome gentleman
27:07who appears to be wearing a pair of glasses
27:09very similar to the ones that I've got on.
27:11And let's go ahead and see what this looks like.
27:13So I'm running this through my laptop
27:15actually directly to the television screen.
27:18And let's zoom up just a little bit here.
27:24Now, yeah, so this actually looks pretty nice.
27:26I'm only seeing a portion of the screen at the moment
27:29because I am obviously zoomed in on it.
27:31So I do have to move my head around
27:34in order to see things here.
27:36It does look nice.
27:36The color reproduction in particular,
27:38I think is very nice looking.
27:40I'm in a decently lit room at the moment.
27:44So this would be, I think, the amount of lighting
27:46that most people would have
27:47as they were watching television.
27:49And yeah, I'm pretty impressed.
27:51Like I'm not getting any kind of like,
27:52you know, scan lines or anything.
27:54The color reproduction is nice.
27:56There may be a little bit of fuzziness,
27:58but it's hard to tell because again,
28:00I don't have my glasses on.
28:01And so that might just be my vision here.
28:04But pretty darn impressed.
28:06Now this eSight doesn't have the ability
28:08to input video over HDMI,
28:11which previous models have done.
28:12And so if you were to watch television,
28:14you would have to be looking at the television screen.
28:16But from what I can tell here,
28:18that would work actually pretty nicely.
28:20Now, because I'm running this from my laptop,
28:21I can actually look at my laptop screen here.
28:24I'm gonna use my tilt function
28:26just to help get the camera down a little bit.
28:29And so now I'm looking at my laptop screen.
28:32That's obviously a lot closer.
28:33We're talking about a couple of feet away.
28:36And again, it's looking pretty nice at the moment.
28:39Maybe it might look a bit yellow to you.
28:42That's because I have my nightlight on.
28:43And so it's kind of reducing the amount of blue light.
28:46But yeah, it looks pretty true
28:48to what the laptop screen actually looks like.
28:50Now we've just switched into some ads here.
28:53But that certainly seems to be quite usable.
28:55So yeah, from what I can tell here,
28:58if you're looking at an electronic screen,
29:00I think the eSight Go might be a decent device for the job.
29:03Really seems to be good in terms of color reproduction
29:05and in terms of the clarity of the image as well.
29:08So if you're in the market for a wearable for television,
29:10you could do a lot worse than trying this one out.
29:15Well, here we are outside
29:16in the Vision Forward parking lot.
29:17And we're gonna test the eSight Go
29:19looking at things in the distance.
29:21First of all, I'm gonna take a look over here.
29:23And I do have a motor vehicle and it has a sign on it.
29:27So we're gonna zoom in and see how that looks.
29:31Okay, and I'm on a 21 times zoom.
29:33So I am quite zoomed in here.
29:36And I can see that it's a Vision Forward logo
29:37and it says Vision Forward.
29:38Now I'm gonna estimate I am 100 feet away from that van.
29:42What do we think?
29:43100 feet away from the van?
29:46It's looking a little bit more like 92 and a half.
29:49Okay, Corey says 92 and a half and Jonathan says 80.
29:52I'm probably gonna go with the 80 on this one.
29:54Sorry, Corey.
29:55So about 80 feet away and I'm at almost the maximum zoom.
29:59And yes, it is a little fuzzy, but I can make it out.
30:01Now there's a number of signs down here
30:03that are at the end of parking spaces.
30:05And the one that's at the same distance away from the car,
30:08unfortunately, it's too fuzzy.
30:10I'm not able to say what it says.
30:11So let's start looking down the line here.
30:14And as I look down the line, they are getting closer.
30:17And I'm able to read one, let's see,
30:20that's probably, I'm gonna say 40 or 35 feet in front of me.
30:25I can read that that's a reserved parking sign.
30:28Now it is still a little bit fuzzy,
30:30but I am able to make out what it is.
30:31And yeah, there's a sign even closer here
30:34and that one is even sharper.
30:37So little difficult to read in the distance
30:39if it's a long way away, as you might expect.
30:41But just looking around at the cars and things like that,
30:44I'm able to obviously make out the shapes
30:46of the cars pretty nicely.
30:47No big problems there.
30:48And I can see the screens pretty clearly.
30:51Now it's not the sunniest of days here at the moment.
30:54So that probably plays a part,
30:57but the screens are easily visible.
30:59And of course I could go into the settings here
31:02and I could change the brightness of the screens as well.
31:04And so if it was a brighter day,
31:07I always have the option of setting manually
31:10the brightness of the screens
31:11just to see if that makes a difference.
31:14So I just changed them manually to 100%,
31:17but I think they were actually already at 100%
31:21because it looks pretty much the same here.
31:23So maybe this is as bright as they go.
31:25But yeah, certainly not too bad.
31:27Again, results may vary,
31:29but it does seem to be working pretty well
31:32on this particular day, which is a little bit overcast.
31:36All right, we have performed all of our tests.
31:38Do you remember how many tests you did?
31:40I believe that was a total of eight, nine tests.
31:43Well, number one was the overview and then eight tests.
31:47So you were right and wrong at the same time.
31:49Very good, very good.
31:50So all of our tests are done.
31:52We gave a grade at the end of the reading
31:55and then we never gave another grade.
31:57So now that it's all over, what would you give?
31:59Pass, fail?
32:00Overall pass, definitely.
32:02I'm a fan of the eSight.
32:03Some of the things that I liked,
32:04the screen brightness is very good.
32:06You can get the screens nice and bright.
32:07Magnification level up to 24 times,
32:09which is a lot of magnification.
32:11Good image stabilization.
32:13I think the design is nice.
32:14It looks basically like a pair of sunglasses.
32:16It was comfortable to wear.
32:18And they've got the basic modes that you would want,
32:20not too complicated.
32:21You know, it's got an easy to understand button layout
32:24and it's simple to do what you want to do.
32:25So overall, Corey, I was pretty impressed.
32:28Good.
32:29Good.
32:31One of the things I think is important to remember
32:33with all wearables is it's really important
32:35to get hands on yourself.
32:36You can watch our video.
32:38We do our best to at least bring you a sampling
32:41of what the device is like.
32:43But at the end of the day,
32:45we're capturing from a phone screen,
32:47from a wifi connection.
32:49And so you might not, you know,
32:50the demos that we show today might not be exactly
32:54what you would get when you put it on yourself.
32:57Plus it doesn't work for everybody.
32:59So it's really important to get hands on.
33:01If you're in the Wisconsin area,
33:03or even if you're not, fly out to Wisconsin, to Milwaukee.
33:07I think I did say in the last unboxing video
33:09that I would buy anyone who came a McDonald's lunch.
33:11You did, yeah.
33:12I might even up the game.
33:13If you mentioned this video and fly in,
33:16I might buy you a lunch from Denny's.
33:19What does one have to do to get a steak and dinner?
33:22You need to fly out, demo, and then buy three of them.
33:27Which you can buy from our Vision Forward store.
33:29But no, most importantly, find a place that does demos
33:33and be able to try them out yourself
33:35to ensure that it is the right device for you.
33:37Just a real quick, Corey,
33:38for those wondering about the field of view,
33:40it is pretty wide.
33:41As long as the headset is sat up by your face,
33:45like fitted properly,
33:45then it is pretty wide field of view,
33:47but not as wide as some of the VR headsets
33:49that we've seen in the past, of course.
33:51Gotcha.
33:52So with all that being said,
33:52well, Corey, we have something else going on.
33:54As well as our produce videos,
33:55we do a live show, TechConnect Live.
33:58And the next one is gonna be on October the 10th,
34:00when we will be joined by Joe Jorgensen from Accessibyte.
34:02He's gonna tell us all about his accessible software
34:05for things like learning how to type, for example,
34:08and a number of other exciting applications,
34:10mostly geared towards schools.
34:12If you want audio version only of our TechConnect Live,
34:15you can get it in podcast form.
34:17Just bring up your favorite podcast app,
34:19do a search for Vision Forward TechConnect,
34:21you'll find our podcast.
34:23We also have an online platform
34:25for free on-demand ACVREP credits.
34:29Head to techconnect.vision-forward.org,
34:32techconnect.vision-forward.org,
34:36and you can sign up for free very quickly
34:38and have access to our webinars.
34:40And again, free ACVREP on-demand credits.
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35:11He said that the USB slot was a USB cable.
35:14I don't know that it matters that much, but.
35:16No, I'm just saying, I'm just saying.
35:19Did I?
35:20Yeah.