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Vuzix Announces Blade App Development Contest Results
Zoi Meet Real-time Language Transcription and Translation Application Takes Home Grand Prize ROCHESTER, N.Y., Feb. 6, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Vuzix® Corporation
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[{"type":"text","content":"Zoi Meet Real-time Language Transcription and Translation Application Takes Home Grand Prize\n\n\nROCHESTER, N.Y., Feb. 6, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Vuzix® Corporation (NASDAQ: VUZI), (\"Vuzix\" or, the \"Company\"), a leading supplier of Smart Glasses and Augmented Reality (AR) technology and products, today announced the winners of its first Vuzix Blade Smart Glasses app development contest. \n\n \n \n\n \nThe Vuzix Blade app development contest attracted more than 200 registered participants who signed up to develop Vuzix Blade applications related to the personal, business and gaming and entertainment categories. Teams from more than 10 countries submitted apps. \nThe personal category represents apps meant to enhance an individual's day-to-day activities, lifestyle, leisure, fitness, health, wellness, etc. Examples include jogging and yoga guides.\nThe business category represents apps meant to streamline processes and/or contribute to workplace productivity, including making it easier for workers to do their jobs or complete work-related specific tasks.\nThe gaming and entertainment category represents for apps that create a fun, interesting and/or engaging gaming or entertainment experience.\nZoi Meet, based in the Netherlands, was awarded the grand prize for its Zoi Meet application that provides live subtitles and translations on the Vuzix Blade. The judging committee was impressed by the well-designed user interface and accuracy of the live language transcription and translation results. Zoi Meet is currently working with several wireless carriers across the globe, including Verizon, to optimize and showcase the performance of language translation on the edge for enterprise customers with the Vuzix Blade Smart Glasses.\nvOICe for Android, based in the Netherlands, was awarded first place in the personal category for their Augmented Reality application for the Blind that allows individuals to see with their ears. The vOICe for Android maps live camera views to soundscapes, offering augmented reality and unprecedented visual detail for the totally blind through sensory substitution and computer vision.\nRewind Recorder, based in Germany, was awarded second place in the personal category for their application that allows individuals to watch what you watch and always stay ready to capture the great moment that has just passed....