Find Me. Seeing the world through understanding, not sight

Sometimes, the greatest challenge isn’t moving, it’s finding.

An empty chair. A door. A table in a crowded café. Small things that can completely change how you feel in a space.

That’s why we created Find Me, one of the most human features of the .lumen glasses.

From cane to artificial intelligence

For a blind person, a cane is an extension of the body. It tells you what’s right in front of you, at ground level. It’s precise but limited by the distance and direction of your touch.

A guide dog offers a wider awareness: it senses the environment, avoids obstacles, and leads you safely. But even a guide dog moves through space, not toward specific objects. It shows you the path, not the chair, though it usually knows how to guide you toward familiar places.

Find Me goes further. It combines spatial perception with a visual understanding of the world. You can tell the glasses what you’re looking for, and they start looking with you.

How Find Me works

The glasses use artificial intelligence to recognise hundreds of objects and six integrated cameras to locate them in space. Then, they guide you through subtle vibrations on your forehead, pointing you in the right direction. As you get closer, spatial sound tells you the distance and orientation.

Everything happens naturally. You don’t have to see; you just have to listen and feel.

“Find Me” works both indoors and outdoors: in offices, stations, restaurants, parks, or waiting rooms.

You no longer need to touch everything to understand what’s around. You don’t have to ask or wait. You simply say what you’re looking for, and technology answers, calmly and confidently, through vibration and sound.

For many of our testers, it was the first time they could walk into an unfamiliar place and know exactly where to stop, without anyone’s help.

A lesson from Japan

During our testing sessions in Japan, we worked with dozens of blind participants. There, we discovered something simple yet significant: while in Romania the challenges are curbs, uneven sidewalks, and potholes, in Japan, the world is tidy, but full of vending machines.

There are over 4 million of them across the country. For blind people, they’re a constant presence: an object of interest as common as a door or a pedestrian crossing.

This experience taught us something essential: for .lumen glasses to be truly universal, they must learn to understand each person’s world.

Since then, we’ve expanded our object recognition database, adding dozens of new categories from different cultures and countries.

What’s next

This is the second feature in our series about the .lumen glasses. In the next chapters, we’ll explore:

• Take Me - how the glasses guide you precisely where you want to go

• Show Me - how they describe the world around you

• the people behind the vision, the team shaping technology that connects humans and the world around them.

For us, each feature is a bridge between human and environment. For you, it might be the beginning of a new kind of freedom. All you have to say is: Find me.