Otávio Good is a Brazilian and American

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and

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. He is the original author of

Word Lens Word Lens was an augmented reality translation application from Quest Visual. Word Lens used the built-in cameras on smartphones and similar devices to quickly scan and identify foreign text (such as that found in a sign or a menu), and then tra ...

, the first

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translation application that replaces printed text into the desired language in video without connection to the Internet. Because of its potential impact on

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, Word Lens received significant amount of attention following its release on December 16, 2010, including ''

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''. To develop

, Otávio Good founded Quest Visual Inc., which was acquired by Google, Inc. in 2014, leading to the incorporation of the Word Lens feature into the

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app in 2015. While at Google, Good became a spokesperson for

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efforts, explaining how it is possible to "squeeze" a high-quality

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into a

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, and why machine learning is the "next underlying technology". Word Lens feature was expanded from 7 to 27 languages of the

app in 2015, and then to both simplified and traditional Chinese in 2016. Prior to Word Lens, Good was a video game developer and co-founded Secret Level, Inc., which was acquired by Sega Inc. in 2006 and became

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. In 2011, Otávio Good led the team ''All Your Shreds Are Belong to U.S.'' that won the DARPA Shredder Challenge 2011. Good was awarded the 2011 World Technology Award in the category ''IT-Software (Individual)'' presented at the

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headquarters and the Netexplo award in the category ''Innovation & Technology'' presented at the

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headquarters. for creation of Word Lens.

Career

* Co-founder of Secret Level, Inc. (1999–2006) * Software architect at

(2006–2009) * Founder of Quest Visual (2009–2014) *

engineer (2014–2018)

References

External links

Quest Visual
homepage * Word Len
on iTunes
* Otávio Goo
explains
Word Lens * Building 43 journalist

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Otávio Good about Word Lens * Google Translate vs. "La Bamba
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Career

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