Description of App
AI Guide Dog is a powerful obstacle detection application designed specifically for the visually impaired to navigate safely. It detects distance in real time to help avoid nearby obstacles and prevent injuries. Detect the position and guide you in the right direction.
With the power of artificial intelligence, it uses the iPhone's LiDAR scanner or front camera for range measurement and azimuth detection with stability and high accuracy.
Main features:
- Provide sound and vibration feedback indicating the proximity of obstacles.
- Real-time notification of the actual distance of obstacles.
- Compass: real-time location detection, vibration feedback and voice broadcast
- Can adjust the language and speed of the voice broadcast
Warm reminder: Please use the App in a safe environment. The developer does not bear any security responsibility.
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Comments
The front camera?
Am I understanding this correctly, that this application is utilizing the FaceTime camera?
Yes, on devices without LiDAR.
So you can still use it on devices with Face ID support, but the front camera alone is not enough so I can't use it on my SE 2022.
Good to know
I am using the SE 2022 as well. 🤷
How Dair you!
My guide dog hear by registers his formal protest and says following: Oh, so now an app is the ‘Guide Dog’? Sure, let me just retire, download myself, and start charging at 20% battery. Spoiler: I don’t need a software update to sniff out trouble!
Request to remove dangerous apps likecthis
Mods, this is too far. People have been seriously injured and worse by these navigation apps. This is not acceptable and it is not okay. It is offensive to those of us who are guide dog users. Please do not allow actively harmful, dangerous apps to be hosted on this site and given legitimacy they do not deserve.
To the app creator, shame on you for putting people in damper like this. I have reported you to Apple for putting peoples lives at risk.
LIDAR based navigation apps
I have my own doubts about the real world accuracy of these sorts of apps. That said, it is here to stay. I don't know why Apple would remove it given that they literally have this function built in on IOS of Iphones with LIDAR cameras. These apps will eventually get better and useable. I don't see any use in censoring them. I would imagine blind people are smart enough to use due caution with any new technology. We are not kids.
Request for more app verification in future
Apple isn’t trying to tell people to use their LIDAR for their safety.
Looking further into it, this app appears to be a scam. The website is all auto generated and barely matches the app store description. But if someone wants to risk it, feel free to tell us what happens to your phone.
All that being said, this is just plain offensive. I’m not the only guide dog user here absolutely disgusted by the trivialization of my partner’s amazing work so some bootlegger can scam a few more bucks out of the blind.
Oh my God
The things that people can be offended by now a days are stunning. I am impressed how some poor developer is not yet offended by the usage of AI and dog in the same sentence. Let alone those poor guides, who I imagine are facing quite a conundrum, being in the middle of artificial intelligence and dogs and all that.
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F off AI guide dog!
Lol! Tongue and cheek… Yes! However the recent deluge of crappy AI apps for the Blind offer up more insults then they do performance! Since I do have a guide dog, I'll say this again to AI guide dog: F off! Lol!
No comparrison.
Don't worry, Sheila. You will never be replaced by an app.
My app just ate a whole brioche
And threw up.
Offensive? How?
How is it offensive to have the name guide dog in the apps name offensive to actual guide dog users? That’s just ruvvish!
Of course it’s not ment to replace your actual guide dog or cane surely you can guess that unless if you are…
Getting defensive because this app is proving itself to be better than your guide dog…
Just putting this idea out there
Just FYI
I red the name, and found it funny. My comment above was just a joke, I am not offended, neither my non-existing guide-dog.
I don't find AI Guide dog name offensive. Also, I don't want someone else to tell me what I can use and can't in my life, can provide a warning for sure, but making decisions for me is an absolute no.
The app itself is nice. Very simple navigation layout, very basic settings section, and seems to be working as advertised. I can't speak about privacy and all without any substantial evidence. Innocent until proven guilty.
My app ate my homework
Guide dogs are one solution to the mobility problem. There are others.
the trouble is, guide dogs are also pets and emotions get involved. I have no feelings for an app. Though, neither do I much for anyone else's dog, guide or not. In fact, I find them rather annoying and stinky... The dogs too.
I very much doubt a dog has feelings like a humans and they certainly don't have the cognitive ability to comprehend cultural appropriation. the only people that can be offended are ourselves. That's on us. Deal with it. Move on. The dog doesn't understand. The dog doesn't care.
I had a guide dog. I loved him very much. I miss him. He was a dog though with doggy ideals, doggy dreams and doggy morals. Love them for what they are, not this weird idea that they are little people in furry suits.
Sorry, ranty... again.
LiDAR and Distance
The phone I have currently does not have LiDAR, and I suppose my question is more about LiDAR than the app.
It says it can give accurate distance measurements, or something like that. What are the limits of this, as in, can you find out if something is sixty units of measurement but not a thousand units away? I'm not sure any of the mainstream distance finders for iPhones are accessible, and I've only assumed bluetooth laser devices are inaccessible.
In response to all the nonsensical reactions
I'll be totally honest and clear: I don't really get why some of you reacted in such a way. Is it solely because the app name contains the term "Guide Dog"? Or is it because some of you raise and sell actual guide dogs and are worried that this app may threaten their job or something? If you always download apps without ever going through their descriptions, fine, I can't say much. But if you do go through the app descriptions before downloading apps, you should already figure out that this app only detects obstacles. I do acknowledge that this app doesn't really offer what the name suggests, but why don't you consider asking how it could be improved? This is a question that is much easier to answer for me compared to the other questions I asked above: Because ranting and complaining and whining is always the easiest, shortest, and most attention-drawing thing to do and it makes you feel comfortable, as if you've fulfilled your own responsibility and even targeted two irresponsible parties, both the dev for publishing a fake app and me for posting about it. Again, I can't say much if you really think of it that way, but do keep in mind that the developer does provide an e-mail address and I will really get in touch with the dev to suggest more useful features that may actually turn this app into a virtual guide dog or white cane, with object detection, audio and haptic feedback for different surface types, moving vs. stationary objects/people, and spatial audio to indicate their locations. You can also reach out to the dev via e-mail or write a review on the App Store and rate the app 1 star instead of showcasing your dramatic prowess on here. Besides, even if all the suggestions are implemented and more great features are added, the developer will still have to inform users that the app should not be viewed as a replacement for other mobility aids. So no one who can reason and use his/her common sense really argues this is actually a guide dog replacement, just as Be My Eyes doesn't really become/replace our eyes and facilitate regaining sight upon installation or launch. You sure can argue this app does not even serve as a virtual guide dog and doesn't even offer a tiny portion of a guide dog's assistance, but you should address the developer, not me.
Agree with most that the name is weird
I have played with the app breethly and found that the name of AI guidedog to be totally inappropriate for the functions it's offering.
Not only does it not know how to recognise daily objects using AI, it can't do any sort of navigating in small spaces.
However I can't be 100 percent sure due to limited time with it.
I believe this app don't even require Internet.
Beside, the extremely poorly named app it is actually quite a good and useful one especially the compass feature and the alarm when you are getting too close to something.
I really think this app should really be renamed to talking navigation assistant or distance calculator and compass for the blind.
Otherwise it's quite a good app to have.
Cheers
In my defense
I am a former guide dog user, retired him a few years ago due to his health and age. However, I was not offended by the name of this app, I was only curious about the front camera usage of the application.
On a sidenote, we could all learn a thing or two, about universal love and acceptance like that of a dog.
@Brian
I do know that you just asked whether the app used the front camera, and I answered that one. So why do you feel the need to respond to me to defend yourself now?