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Be My Eyes
@BeMyEyes
Be My Eyes connects 900,000+ blind and low-vision users with 9.3M volunteers and companies via live video and AI, available in 150+ countries, free for users.
Denmark & San Francisco
Joined March 2013
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    The wait is over! 🎉 Be My Eyes is now rolling out on @ray_ban @Meta glasses, bringing hands-free accessibility to our blind and low-vision community in the US, Canada, UK, Ireland, and Australia.🌟 Say, “Hey Meta, Call a Volunteer on Be My Eyes,” for hands-free, real-time
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    We are thrilled to present Virtual Volunteer™, a digital visual assistant powered by @OpenAI’s GPT-4 language model. Virtual Volunteer will answer any question about an image and provide instantaneous visual assistance in real-time within the app. #Accessibility #Inclusion #CSUN
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    Replying to @RespectfulMemes
    The app is free and you get the craziest calls, not too long ago a volunteer helped a farmer catching a run-away chicken. You won't be disappointed, promise 🐔
    IG Comment: "Today, I helped a farmer find a run-away chicken in his farm. I thought if was impossible, but we prevailed. I learned that he has built most of the things on his farm on his own!"
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    Gave my eyes to the blind today Be grateful for what you have and stop focusing on what doesn’t really matter.
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    Having trouble experiencing @GlblCtzn's One World: #TogetherAtHome? Call a specialized volunteers! They’ll be available all night for personalized audio description and to make sure you’re part of this historic moment! Try it out! ow.ly/lG3I50zi1OW
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    Turn Be My Eyes' Virtual Volunteer into your personal gardener! 🪴 #OpenAI #GPT4
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    Today is #BeMyEyes’s 8th birthday!🎊 Thank you for every single call made or answered , for every little act of kindness and for being here with us in the largest virtual volunteering community in the whole world! 💙
    Two screenshots side by side showing the app when it launched in 2015 and how it looks now. The text over the first screenshot reads "how it started", the text over the second screenshot reads "how it's going".
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    News Alert! 🚨 Be My Eyes is acquiring @AppleVis, a key resource for blind & low-vision users of Apple & tech products. After conversation with them, we quickly realized our missions aligned perfectly. Now, we’re growing together! bemyeyes.com/blog/be-my-eye…
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    Big news! We’re partnering with #Meta to bring hands-free accessibility to the blind & low-vision community through our Call a Volunteer feature on @ray_ban Meta smart glasses! Coming soon in the US, Canada, UK, Ireland & Australia! 🚀 bemyeyes.com/blog/be-my-eye…
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    We are excited to announce that we have successfully integrated Be My AI within @Microsoft Disability Answer Desk! Starting today, Microsoft’s DAD will officially be powered by Be My AI, the Artificial Intelligence Visual Assistant from Be My Eyes! 🚀
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    Big News! It's now easier for blind iPhone users to make calls with @BeMyEyes. Just say: “Hey Siri, make a call with Be My Eyes” or the equivalent in the language your Siri speaks and it will open the app and initiate a call - no button-pressing required! Update to latest version
    An image of colors sounds waves with the text "Hey Siri, make a call with Be My Eyes" written above it.
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    It’s our birthday! The Be My Eyes app came out five years ago, on January 15, 2015. Since then, 3,139,700 people have volunteered to be the eyes of 180,496 blind/low vision users in nearly 200 languages. What an amazing community. Happy #BeMyEyesDay everyone!
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    7 MILLION VOLUNTEERS! 🤯 Today, the Be My Eyes' volunteer community has reached the INCREDIBLE number of 7,000,000 volunteers! Fun fact: if our volunteer community was a country, we would now be much larger than Denmark, the country were it all began back in 2015! 🇩🇰
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    Follow Andy's adventures around London with #OpenAI's new GPT-4o model, as tested by #BeMyEyes!
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