Eyecoming
In-depth analysis and industry insights on assistive technology, visual impairment, and accessibility
From an optical concept in a French laboratory in 2005 — recognised by IEEE as the world's top innovation — to China's first AR smart glasses production line in Hangzhou in 2011, to pivoting toward the visually impaired community in 2018. Twenty years of technology in pursuit of one idea: making human connection the most valuable output of technology.
Read Article →A 2024 paper in Information & Management (Elsevier, A-class IS journal) by HKU and University of Sydney placed Eyecoming alongside Be My Eyes as a global benchmark. The study revealed a thought-provoking paradox about social justice — and validated our counter-intuitive design philosophy: deliberately limiting volunteer pool size to prioritise match quality over volume.
Read Article →338 million people with visual impairment stand at the threshold of a technological inflection point. Wearable AI glasses, brain-computer interfaces (BCI), and retinal implants are advancing in parallel — from Meta Ray-Ban at $299 to Neuralink's Blindsight cortical electrodes. This article maps three technology tracks, their timelines, and the accessibility challenges that remain.
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