First thoughts

[brianna.f...@gmail.com]

Hello Everyone,

I just got my glasses yesterday and have been trying them out in different scenarios. First I had some confusion as I received two emails, one saying I should have received a message with a UPS tracking number and a second one stating the glasses would be arriving via FedEx. FedEx was the winner.

Anyways I loved seeing that there was a braille quick start guide in the box but I was surprised to see it in literary braille and not UEB. The Braille Authority of North America adopted UEB in 2016.

I was impatient and connected my glasses very quickly before I read all the instructions, they did not connect nicely and disconnected from the phone constantly. They still performed but very badly. I then read the instructions and reset the glasses.

I have found that the descriptions are for the most part accurate except for that it keeps saying that my table cloth is a flowered print when it’s a Christmas table cloth and has angels all over it.

In reading mode it took me a few times to get its vocabulary, as when it said to move up an inch I moved the page up when what it wanted was for me to move it closer.

Even with the few bugs I have found I am very impressed with these glasses.

Brianna Fuellbrandt

[Dan Toth]

What specific steps did you not take the first time you connected the glasses? 

What are the exact steps that you had to take to connect them properly? 

If this is an onboarding issue, then I am sure the company would like to hear about it and maybe address minor issues in the process.

Dan
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[brianna.f...@gmail.com]

Well one of the things I found is that in the guide it says not to connect to the version of Echovision that has BLE in the title. So guess which one I was connected to? 😊 I disconnected it by forgetting the glasses and looking for a different name. My glasses work much better now and am very happy with trying to find other work arounds for other things.

Brianna

[Sieghard Weitzel]

Interesting, I just tapped on "Forget" and then put the glasses in pairing mode again and interestingly enough I saw them listed as "EchoVision Glasses" which is the name I gave them previously so somehow this information was remembered. I still did not see a second instance with "BLE" in the description.

[Gene Warner]

The only problem I had with the initial set up is that the app reported that there was an error connecting to my home's WiFi even though the glasses seemed to connect with no problem.

Gene...

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From: Dan Toth <danth...@gmail.com>
To: echovisio...@agiga.ai
Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2025 15:10:15 -0500
Subject: Re: [echovision-discuss] First thoughts

[Gene Warner]

That's probably because the EchoVision app uses the BLE connection. If your glasses and the EchoVision app are working together, then don't worry about not seeing the BLE connection in your bluetooth settings. It's not needed there.

Gene...


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From: Sieghard Weitzel <sieg...@outlook.com>
To: "echovisio...@agiga.ai" <echovisio...@agiga.ai>
Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2025 20:22:46 +0000
Subject: RE: [echovision-discuss] First thoughts

> Interesting, I just tapped on "Forget" and then put the glasses in pairing mode again and interestingly enough I saw them listed as "EchoVision Glasses" which is the name I gave them previously so somehow this information was remembered. I still did not see a second instance with "BLE" in the description.
>
> From: echovisio...@agiga.ai <echovisio...@agiga.ai> On Behalf Of brianna.f...@gmail.com
> Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2025 12:17 PM
> To: echovisio...@agiga.ai
> Subject: RE: [echovision-discuss] First thoughts
>
> Well one of the things I found is that in the guide it says not to connect to the version of Echovision that has BLE in the title. So guess which one I was connected to? 😊 I disconnected it by forgetting the glasses and looking for a different name. My glasses work much better now and am very happy with trying to find other work arounds for other things.
> Brianna
>
> From: echovisio...@agiga.ai <echovisio...@agiga.ai> On Behalf Of Dan Toth
> Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2025 2:10 PM
> To: echovisio...@agiga.ai
> Subject: Re: [echovision-discuss] First thoughts
>
> What specific steps did you not take the first time you connected the glasses?
>
> What are the exact steps that you had to take to connect them properly?
>
> If this is an onboarding issue, then I am sure the company would like to hear about it and maybe address minor issues in the process.
>
>
>
>
> Dan
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> On Tue, Dec 16, 2025, 2:38 PM <brianna.f...@gmail.com<mailto:brianna.f...@gmail.com>> wrote:
> Hello Everyone,
> I just got my glasses yesterday and have been trying them out in different scenarios. First I had some confusion as I received two emails, one saying I should have received a message with a UPS tracking number and a second one stating the glasses would be arriving via FedEx. FedEx was the winner.
> Anyways I loved seeing that there was a braille quick start guide in the box but I was surprised to see it in literary braille and not UEB. The Braille Authority of North America adopted UEB in 2016.
> I was impatient and connected my glasses very quickly before I read all the instructions, they did not connect nicely and disconnected from the phone constantly. They still performed but very badly. I then read the instructions and reset the glasses.
> I have found that the descriptions are for the most part accurate except for that it keeps saying that my table cloth is a flowered print when it’s a Christmas table cloth and has angels all over it.
> In reading mode it took me a few times to get its vocabulary, as when it said to move up an inch I moved the page up when what it wanted was for me to move it closer.
> Even with the few bugs I have found I am very impressed with these glasses.
> Brianna Fuellbrandt
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[boaco...@gmail.com]

Thank you Breana. I love literary braille over UEB. Bob

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[Sieghard Weitzel]

I learned to read and write Braille back in Germany after I lost my sight at the age of 16. What is the difference between literary Braille over UEB?

I am not very up to date on this because while back in High School we had to do a lot in Braille and I learned both German and English abbreviations, I have never used Braille a lot since graduating in 1989. All throughout University I did everything with Jaws only, never had a Braille display and my current use of Braille is limited to having bought one of these 6 Dot electric Braille labellers which I use to label spices and such. Reading the little bit of Braille which came with the glasses was probably the most Braille I read in 30 years, but it did come back to me, guess it's like riding a bike..

 

From: echovisio...@agiga.ai <echovisio...@agiga.ai> On Behalf Of boaco...@gmail.com
Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2025 3:16 PM
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Subject: RE: [echovision-discuss] First thoughts

 

Thank you Breana. I love literary braille over UEB. Bob

[brianna.f...@gmail.com]

Hi,

Literary braille is the code we used in the 90’s and every country pretty much had their own rules, UEB which stands for Unified English Braille, is the format which has been adopted by many if not all English speaking countries and there are different rules than before. I can read both as I have known braille for a long time but anyone learning braille now won’t have learnt some of the old symbols and rules.

I just bring it up as some people may not find these instructions usable if they can’t read them.

Brianna

[Sieghard Weitzel]

Guess I could read them because I learned Braille in 1985.

[Gene Warner]

Like me. I lost my vision late in life and decided that with all the available technology and the fact that I decided to retire early rather than struggle with trying to find a decent job as a newly blind person, that I could skip learning Braille.

Fortunately there is the online user's guide, minimal at best as it is which my screen reader can read to me.

Gene...


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[mrsi...@sasktel.net]

I learned braille   in 1961, I think.

 

I really do not use it these days.

 

Yes there are differences between literary braille and the unified English braille code;  I thin some contractions have been dropped or changed, changes in some punctuation etc.

 

I think if you know one, you can read the other.

Yes, differences, but not much major changes.

 

I’ve been wrong before and I will be again.

 

Cheers,

 

 

 

Monte Single

[portil...@gmail.com]

I honestly don’t think that will be a problem. I remember when there was the transition, and I didn’t really realize I was reading UEB until something stood out to me. There are other ways people can access thest instructions.

Let’s go ahead and move forward and close this subject.

[Gene Warner]

Amen to that!

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[boaco...@gmail.com]

I like literary Braille better than UEB. Bob

[mrsi...@sasktel.net]

I like literary Braille better than UEB. Bob

Yes, Bob and that is most likely because is what you learned firs.

Monte Single

[Gene Warner]

Please close this Braille discussion. It has nothing to do with the EchoVision glasses.