Envision Glasses — AI-Powered Reading and Recognition Wearable for Blind Users, from The Hague

Envision was founded in The Hague, Netherlands, in late 2017 by Karthik Kannan and Karthik Mahadevan to give blind and low-vision people AI-narrated access to visual information. Its software reads text in more than 60 languages, recognises faces, describes scenes and finds objects; it ships both as a smartphone app and embedded in dedicated hands-free smart glasses that retail for €2,999 excluding tax through authorised resellers in the US, UK and Netherlands.
The company reports over 200,000 customers globally, with more than 50,000 users concentrated in the Netherlands, the United States, Japan and Germany, and the Envision app won Google's Best Accessibility App award in 2019. Coverage by Silicon Canals, Inceptive Mind and other technology press corroborates the product's features and launch timeline.
These user and award figures are company-reported and repeated by trade press rather than verified by an independent accessibility audit or peer-reviewed usability study, and the €2,999 glasses hardware remains out of reach for most users in low-income settings — a limitation the company addresses partly through the lower-cost smartphone app.

Read the full analysis: https://www.letsenvision.com/blog/envision-glasses-press-release