Full Session Description

Virtual Eye is a vision technology that provides virtual sight to the visually impaired by recognizing people and the environment around using AI and AR capabilities of Azure. This session explores the technologies implemented along the Hololens device to perform body tracking and image recognition in real time, and translate this information in vocal instructions that describe the world around the user.

Stefano Tempesta

CTO | Microsoft Regional Director & MVP @ SXiQ Australia

About the author

Stefano Tempesta is CTO at SXiQ, Microsoft Regional Director, MVP on Azure, AI and Business Applications, and co-founder of 365 Community, a non-profit organization whose mission is to empower communities around the world with better ICT processes for customer relationship management and customer service, using modern technology.A technology manager with 20 years of international experience, entrepreneur CTO and advisor for start-ups in Australia, Singapore and Switzerland, Stefano is an author, a public speaker, a blogger, an event organizer and an ambassador of beautiful software. His interests extend to microservice architectures, blockchain, IoT and A.I. related technologies.