Live Subtitles in Augmented Reality Glasses

The augmented reality technology wave provides us with a chance to build accessible hardware and software solutions from the ground up, rather than as an afterthought.

Xander and XRAI Glass are aiming to caption the world through smart glasses. Here's your chance to get a glimpse of these glasses.

Founder and CEO Alex Westner will share what his company has learned from testing with customers and how these insights have helped shape the product. They believe that simplicity, reliability, and privacy are essential for the experience to be effective.

Come ask questions and learn how we might be able to use AR solutions early in the tech lifecycle for deaf or hard of hearing users and where those technologies may allow us to go in the future.

Presenter Bios
Alex Westner has spent 20+ years leading product strategy at iZotope, Gibson, and Fidelity. He earned an MS from MIT Media Lab for acoustics and audio processing and is a former electropunk keytarist.

He began his career in engineering, researching microphone arrays and the “cocktail party problem” at the MIT Media Lab — getting computers to pick out individual voices in a room. He continued to spend 18 years as a product leader in audio and music technology companies, shipping successful products that try to analyze and understand sound. One standout, “iZotope RX,” became known as Photoshop for Sound earned an Engineering Emmy Award, and has become an industry-standard tool.

Most recently, he’s immersed himself in the most profound human problem related to audio — people who have trouble hearing altogether. He co-founded Xander, setting its vision on providing relief for the 1.5 billion people around the world who struggle with the effects of hearing loss. Follow Alex on Twitter.

Paul Mealy has spent the past 20 years establishing innovation labs at various organizations, from small startups to Fortune 100 organizations. Paul is an internationally published author on Virtual and Augmented Reality and has specifically targeted developing technology solutions for children’s education and assistive technology solutions for all people.

As Chief Product Officer at XRAI Glass, Paul is responsible for designing experiences that uplevel all user interactions and communications. Visit Paul Mealy's website.

Accessibility
The presentation will be captioned [cc]. The event will have real-time captions and a YouTube live stream.

We will have an American Sign Language (ASL) interpreter at this event.

Livestream
https://youtu.be/YZZRf7neL3I

Sponsors
Thanks to Equal Entry, an accessibility consultancy, for sponsoring.

Accreditation
All A11yVR meetups are pre-approved for IAAP Continuing Accessibility Education Credits (CAEC).

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Timeline
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7:30 - 7:45 PM
Thomas Logan introduction

7:45 - 8:20 PM
Presentation

8:20 - 8:30 PM
Q&A with attendees