Quest Visual, Inc. was an American private company that developed Word Lens, an augmented reality translation application.
Company
Quest Visual was founded by a former video game developer
Otavio Good in 2009.
At the time of acquisition, the company had 4 full-time employees (Good, John DeWeese, Bryan Lin, and Eric Park,) and a contractor, Maia Good.
The details of the acquisition have not been released.
Products
Quest Visual's first product, Word Lens 1.0, was released on December 16, 2010,
and was available in 2015 as Word Lens 2.2.3 for Apple's
iPhone,
iPod, and
iPad through
iTunes Store,
as well as for a selection of Android smartphones through
Google Play.
It was unavailable as of 2021.
At
Google's unveiling of its Glass Development Kit in November 2013, the translation capabilities of Word Lens were also demonstrated on
Google Glass.
According to a January 2014
New York Times article, Word Lens is currently free for Google Glass.
Google also made all Word Lens language packs freely available for a "limited time".
Word Lens capabilities were incorporated into the
Google Translate app and released on January 14, 2015.
The company did not have any other products by the time of acquisition.
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