SeeWay is an AI navigation assistant for visually impaired people. Point your phone — or wear smart glasses — and hear exactly what's around you, how far away it is, and which way to go.
Here's what it's like to walk through the city with SeeWay running.
The camera sees the entrance door and the step down to the footpath. SeeWay stays quiet — no hazard, no alert. It only speaks when it matters.
A lamppost is directly in your path. SeeWay detects it, estimates it's 2 metres away, and tells you which side before you reach it.
The car is moving — SeeWay tracks its closing speed and fires an interrupt alert. No 5-second cooldown for fast-moving hazards.
The zebra crossing and pedestrian sign are detected. SeeWay identifies the crossing zone so you know you're in the right spot.
Unlike a curb or puddle, stairs always get their own specific name — because stepping off a stair is a different response than stepping over a puddle.
If you've enrolled a family member or caregiver, SeeWay recognises their face from the camera and tells you they're there — before they speak.
SeeWay doesn't describe everything in the scene — only the things that affect your safety and path.
Four layers running together on your phone, under 100 milliseconds, no internet required.
A custom YOLO model (2.7 MB) runs on your phone camera at 30 fps, identifying hazards and obstacles frame by frame.
A depth model estimates how far each object is in metres. A tracking system (ByteTrack) follows each object across frames to compute closing speed.
A risk engine scores each object: Is it in your path? Is it getting closer? How fast? Only genuinely dangerous objects trigger alerts.
A voice alert fires with direction, distance, and hazard type. Stairs and cars never block each other — every hazard has its own voice queue.
Every feature solves a real problem that came up during testing on Ulaanbaatar streets.
Every alert says where: "on your left", "on your right", "ahead". You know exactly which way to step without stopping to think.
A person alert doesn't block a stairs alert. Each hazard type has its own 5-second cooldown, so you always hear what matters — even in a busy scene.
All detection, tracking, and alerting runs on-device. Elevators, basements, rural roads — SeeWay never goes silent because of connectivity.
SeeWay only speaks when a hazard is actually in your path and close enough to matter. It won't narrate every parked car 10 metres away.
Critical alerts trigger a double haptic pulse. In a noisy street or with earbuds in music — you feel the warning even if you miss the audio.
Enroll family, friends, or caregivers. SeeWay recognises them when they enter the frame and announces them by name — all on-device, private.
No proprietary device to buy. SeeWay is a software layer that connects to your phone or any camera you wear.
Hold it, clip it to a lanyard, or mount it on a chest harness. Works on any mid-range Android from 2022 onward. iOS supported.
Available nowStream live video from Meta Ray-Ban, DJI, or GoPro over WiFi. Fully hands-free — your white cane stays in one hand, nothing in the other.
In betaA small button-cam worn at chest height gives the most natural field of view for walking — matching how you actually look ahead.
Coming soonSeeWay is built bilingual from the ground up — not translated after the fact.
Full navigation and hazard alerts in English via on-device TTS. Optimised voice selection (US English, neural voices preferred).
Complete Mongolian voice interface via Chimge TTS and STT. Hazard alerts, face recognition, and voice navigation commands — all in Mongolian.
SeeWay is in active development and pilot testing in Ulaanbaatar. We're looking for early users, accessibility partners, and institutions who want to bring real-time AI navigation to visually impaired communities.