Seeing AI

Agency: RUN Studios
Client: Microsoft
Producers: Becky Kelly, Kim Lawrence

Seeing AI is a free app that narrates the world around you. Designed for the blind and low vision community, this ongoing research project harnesses the power of AI to open up the visual world and describe nearby people, text and objects. Seeing AI demonstrates how technology can make the world more inclusive.

The Seeing AI prototype made quite a stir when it was released in 2016. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella introduced it at Build 2016, also introducing Saqib Shaikh, the blind software developer that helped create the prototype.