Iris
an on-device sight companion for blind and low-vision people: products, prescriptions, food and obstacles, without sending a single image to a server
- 2nd place and national qualifier, swift changemakers 2026
- open beta on testflight
what it is
iris identifies products, reads medical prescriptions, describes food and detects obstacles. all of it happens on the phone, offline, with no account.
swift 6 with strict concurrency across five domains: shopping, pharmacy, navigation, food and classroom. vision and core ml for recognition, arkit with lidar for obstacle distance, spatial audio and haptics so the app can answer without a screen.
what i did
lead developer
built with
- Swift 6
- SwiftUI
- Foundation Models
- Core ML
- Vision
- ARKit
team
- Patricio Garza
- Adan Flores
- Alana Martinez