Quest Visual Inc. is an American private company that develops an augmented reality

Augmented reality

Augmented reality is a live, direct or indirect, view of a physical, real-world environment whose elements are augmented by computer-generated sensory input such as sound, video, graphics or GPS data. It is related to a more general concept called mediated reality, in which a view of reality is...

 translation software Word Lens

Word Lens

Word Lens is an augmented reality translation application for the iPhone from Quest Visual. Word Lens uses the built-in phone camera to identify text, such as a sign or a menu, in one language and have the words shown translated into another language. The words are displayed in the original...

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Products

Quest Visual's first product Word Lens 1.0 was released on December 16, 2010, and is currently available as Word Lens 1.0.1 for iPhone 4

IPhone 4

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, iPhone 3GS

IPhone 3GS

-Camera:The iPhone 3GS features an improved 3 megapixel camera manufactured by OmniVision. In addition to the higher megapixel count, it also features auto-focus, auto white balance and auto macro and is capable of capturing VGA video...

, iPad 2

IPad 2

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, and iPod touch

IPod touch

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 (4th generation). The company supports English-to-Spanish and Spanish-to-English translations, but other language dictionaries were planned, with European languages expected first. In addition, the company planned to expand to other devices, such as Android, Windows Phone 7

Windows Phone 7

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, Palm

Palm, Inc.

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, and BlackBerry

BlackBerry

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, with Android likely to be targeted first.

The company did not have any other products as of April 20, 2011.

External links

• Quest Visual homepage
• Word Lens on iTunes
• Original video demonstration of Word Lens
• Otavio Good explains Word Lens 1.0.1 (interview with Reuters
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