After news circulated about Word Lens at May 17, 2014: Tech giant Google has bought reportedly the Word Lens Quest Visual maker, to boost its Translate feature; Suddenly, World Lens became headline news in the world of technology.
Before further explanation from us, see the video below :
What is in your mind after seeing the video? Of course, something incredible has been created. Only by doing shoot a picture, you get a new image that has been translated, really unbelievable.
What exactly and who develop the Word Lens?
Word Lens has been developed by Otavio Good, a former video game developer and the founder of Quest Visual; John DeWeese, who previously worked on the Electronic Arts game Spore, and programmers Maia Good, Bryan Lin, and Eric Park. They are the ones with the genius idea of creating the translator tool Word Lens.
According to its description, Word Lens is best used on clearly printed text and was not designed to translate handwritten or stylized fonts. This application was created to help tourists understand signs and menus, and it is not 100% accurate. The developer Otavio Good commented: "I will be the first to say that it's not perfect, but perfect was not the goal". However, testers who took the app to other countries said it had been useful.
At the release on December 16, 2010, only English-to-Spanish and Spanish-to-English were supported, but other language dictionaries were planned, with European languages expected first. English-to-French and French-to-English were released on December 14, 2011. In 2012, English-to-Italian and Italian-to-English were added, followed by English-to-German / German-to-English and English-to-Portuguese / Portuguese-to-English in 2013, and English-to-Russian / Russian-to-English in 2014.
How you can use Word Lens?
Word Lens requires iPhone 3GS+, iPod Touch with a video camera, iPad 2+, or any iPad Mini. In 2012, Word Lens was released for a selection of Android Smartphones. In 2013, Word Lens became available for Google Glass, even though Google Glass itself is not yet freely available.
You want to try to use? You can download it on iTunes or on Google play.
