David Goldfield

DavidGoldfield@tweesecake.social

Pro-life, practicing Catholic. I'm the marketing director for Blazie Technologies, developer of the BT Speak pocket computer. Opinions from this account are my own.
I have over 30 years of experience working in the blindness assistive technology field including providing product support and training to blind children and adults. I've been a JAWS for Windows user since v1.0 and have used NVDA since 2009. Using Windows since V3.1 with DOS before that in the early 1990s. I enjoy science fiction and reading Catholic apologetics. My favorite SF shows are Doctor Who and Babylon 5. I love puns. This account posts about all of the above topics.

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David Goldfield

1 month ago

David Goldfield
1 month ago

At #ACB25, I was disappointed that the hotel didn't provide us with free AIRA access. That caused me to replenish minutes several times as I was using AIRA on my Meta glasses a lot for navigation around the hotel. Using AIRA on Whatsapp worked quite well overall. I did provide feedback both to AIRA and Meta that the AIRA app needs to be a native application on the glasses. I suspect this will happen.

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Dane Stange

in reply to David Goldfield 1 month ago

Have you ever used live AI or Be My Eyes? Those ones are free.

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David Goldfield

in reply to Dane Stange 1 month ago

@danestange I've used those services but I didn't know how well Be My Eyes would do with complex navigation tasks. Also, AIRA agents can look up and examine the hotel map while they're guiding you and there's no guarantee that a Be My Eyes assistant will do this. Live AI on the Meta glasses would likely not be good for navigation.

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Dane Stange

in reply to David Goldfield 1 month ago

That's really Pretty cool that Aira agents can do that. Wow. Too bad we can't use 3rd party camera apps like the vOICe or similar on the meta glasses. That's metas fault.

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Mendi Evans

in reply to David Goldfield 1 month ago

Sadly, the metaglasses failed me with Aira. That said, I also wish the access would have been free so I didn't have to burn minutes with my phone.

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Tina and Tony Sohl

in reply to David Goldfield 1 month ago

Hi. Can you tell me how to reach Meta? I'm having some trouble with Aira and WhatsApp on my Pixel and Meta may need to help.

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David Goldfield

in reply to Tina and Tony Sohl 1 month ago

@TinaSohl I'm not sure. Someone at the Meta session did provide feedback that she wished Meta had a support line but I don't think they commented on that. It would be nice if they could be a specialized help option in the Be My Eyes app.

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Tina and Tony Sohl

in reply to David Goldfield 1 month ago

That would be nice. I heard back from Aira and the developers are trying to squish the bug. We should suggest it to be my eyes, maybe they'll add meta.