Vision Buddy Mini: Big Magnification, Small Device!

Vision Forward's Tech Connect

Welcome back all you Tech Connecters! Cory and Luke are excited to showcase a new wearable electronic magnifier called the Vision Buddy Mini! We have covered Vision Buddy in previous videos but now they are back with a vengeance! Its slimmer than ever, and is jam packed with loads of great features that we are going to demonstrate today!   Specifically, your favorite Assistive Technology Specialists will walk you through how to use the Vision Buddy Mini's various features such as: Magnification, Reading, OCR, Television, Computer, and CCTV Camera Mode. If you have any questions please post them in the comments below!  If you are interested in older Vision Buddy devices, we recommend watching these previous videos we made covering those devices. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkq5KGDdvEc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGcTRflPEXQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOdCly1XELw  0:00 Start 1:45 List of Features we will cover 2:30 Physical Design and Appearance 4:45 Basic Magnification 7:35 Reading Mode with OCR (Change filters using voice commands… video to follow) 10:50 Television Mode 15:35 Computer Mode  16:45 CCTV Camera 20:25 Wrap Up Review 24:00 End 24:20 Goofs  We have two corrections we would like to include from Vision Buddy:  Firstly, the headset is a custom design with their own hardware and operating system.  And second, you can launch voice commands by pressing the zoom-in button for two seconds until you hear a ding. After that, simply say the command. Using voice commands, you can customize each mode.   For example, in Reading Mode you can change filters, and in TV Mode you can adjust video settings. You can also change volume, brightness, and contrast in each mode using voice commands. Voice commands may take a few tries to get used to your voice, but they should work smoothly once calibrated.  Vision Forward's Tech Connect continues to bring you the information you need to make the most out of your devices. Our experts know there are many factors to consider, so if you have any follow up questions please post them in the comments and we will help you find the assistive tech that's best for you.    Want more Tech Connect in your life? You should try us Live! Next show goes live on Thursday the 12th of March! So be sure to check your email for reminders as we approach those dates!   Looking for the full playlist? https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdZ61dAGaL_k3I-_LcTPozan9upCqY8Yc   Catch-up with our most recent Tech Connect Livestreams!   Give Everything a Voice Label Using Speech Label w/ Maryam Nakhaei from Hable!  https://www.youtube.com/live/pKNvFN-NOco  Which Wearables are Worth Wearing in 2026? https://www.youtube.com/live/YabIqipWNSI  What's New from CES 2026? https://www.youtube.com/live/2H0bh0svmIQ  Switching Studios: Adieu to the Old, Hello to the New! https://www.youtube.com/live/QLlVkJqIPsM  Enhance your Android Smartphone with these Low Vision features! https://www.youtube.com/live/4-3KjqdKbOQ

Transcript

00:00Luke, I had a friend who texted me last night.

00:03What?

00:03And he no longer wants to be my friend.

00:06Yep, that was me.

00:07Oh, that was weird.

00:09But that means I have an opening for a buddy in my life.

00:12What is my buddy's solution, buddy?

00:15Corey, let me tell you, very timely,

00:17because I just happen to have a new buddy.

00:19It's my buddy.

00:20It's your buddy.

00:21It is the Vision Buddy Mini.

00:23Wow, buddy.

00:25Let's take a look.

00:26And say buddy 20,000 more times.

00:30Bye, buddy.

00:40Hey, y'all.

00:41Welcome back to another Tech Connect.

00:43That's right, I'm back.

00:45I'm Corey, and I'm Arnold Schwarzeneggering you right now.

00:49Jonathan, please, could you insert the sound of crowds booing at this point?

00:54Oh, I thought you wanted something like,

00:55dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum.

00:56That would be cool as well.

00:57I don't want to get copyright strike, though.

00:58Oh, yeah, that's a good problem.

01:00All right, so that's right.

01:00I am back, and we've got a great video today.

01:03We are taking a look at the brand new Vision Buddy Mini.

01:07This is a new product released by Vision Buddy.

01:11Check out our channel.

01:12Probably it'll be down in the description as well.

01:15We did a video on the previous Vision Buddy.

01:19We liked it.

01:20It has some cool features.

01:21The new Vision Buddy Mini has even better features.

01:26Yeah, very feature-packed.

01:27There are many cables and many accessories that you get with this monster of a wearable.

01:32So, without further ado, Colin.

01:34Well, hold on now.

01:35Monster of a wearable makes it seem like it's huge.

01:38It's a mini monster.

01:38But it's called the mini, not the monster.

01:40It's a mini monster.

01:41All right, let's get to it.

01:42Stick with us.

01:46Okay, so we're going to look at a few different sections in this video, which cover the full

01:50gamut of Vision Buddy Mini experiences.

01:53We are going to be looking at, first of all, the headset and its physical design.

01:56We're going to look at its magnification capabilities.

01:59We are going to look at its different color modes.

02:01We're going to look at television streaming modes.

02:04We are going to look at using its CCTV camera for doing cool stuff.

02:09I know, yeah, which I'm actually quite excited about that.

02:11And then we're also going to discuss its computer connectivity options.

02:16And does that cover all the features?

02:18That covers all the features that I am aware of.

02:20That sounds good to me as well, yeah.

02:21I'm a genius when it comes to this product.

02:23You can tell.

02:24Just look at Corey's face.

02:25He's a genius.

02:26So, anyway, so, yeah, there's a lot of stuff to cover with this headset because it can do a lot.

02:31Now, first of all, we will just look at the physical design of the headset.

02:35The thing about the Vision Buddy Mini that strikes you very quickly, Corey, is that it is indeed mini.

02:39I have not yet physically touched this device.

02:43That's a good point.

02:44Maybe you should physically touch it.

02:45So, this will get a first reaction to, ooh, it is quite small.

02:48There you go.

02:48So, the previous Vision Buddy, if I remember correctly, it's been a bit since I actually used it.

02:53Yeah.

02:53But that was based off of a VR headset, right?

02:56So, it was much larger, that fully enclosed kind of thing.

03:00But this is significantly smaller.

03:02Yes.

03:02There is definitely, well, my last thing really quick, there's definitely some weight to it, though.

03:09Yeah, well, actually, they say like 0.13 pounds or something like that.

03:13Okay.

03:13So, maybe not as heavy as you might think.

03:17Now, I do believe this is built on a pre-existing headset, just like the previous one, as far as

03:22I can tell.

03:22So, it's not custom made, I don't think.

03:24But it's a very cool design.

03:26It's very kind of narrow.

03:28So, it's about half the depth, I would say, of the original Vision Buddy and most of the kind of,

03:32you know, VR style wearables.

03:34Very simple controls, nice stylish colors.

03:37We've got grays and whites, which are good.

03:38One of the features that I really like is on the inside, the lenses actually can be adjusted by about

03:43two diopters just by rotating some dials that are around the lenses there.

03:49So, that's a really nice option there.

03:51If you do have a bit of a prescription, you can adjust for that just by rotating the eyepiece.

03:55It's very easy to do.

03:56So, there you go.

03:57Vision Buddy Mini, nice design, very stylish.

04:00I do think it's one of the better looking things.

04:01And just to prove it, Corey, I'm going to put this on.

04:04Right now.

04:04Okay.

04:05And then the viewers can decide, does it look stylish when I'm wearing it?

04:09So, here we go.

04:10Now, I put it over my glasses, which actually isn't really recommended, depending on your glasses, because it's a very

04:14tight fit over my glasses.

04:16But anyway, this is me wearing it.

04:18And the viewers can make up their own minds as to whether they think that this looks pretty decent or

04:23not.

04:24But I do think it's definitely one of the better designs.

04:26Put it down in the comments.

04:27Should Luke always wear the Vision Buddy Mini?

04:31Does it help his overall appearance?

04:33I would say you couldn't make it worse.

04:34If you're blocking my face, it's probably a good answer.

04:37All right.

04:37With that being said, let's jump into the first feature, which is going to be magnification.

04:41Let's take a look.

04:45Luke, I finished Stranger Things Season 5.

04:48Yeah?

04:48How was it?

04:48It was very disappointing.

04:50So, I need you to really make this video a whopper here.

04:56Because, well, to be honest, the bar is pretty low.

05:00So, all right.

05:00Hit us with some magnification.

05:02Well, what I didn't tell you is the Vision Buddy can take out the Mind Flayer.

05:05So, yeah.

05:07Is it dead?

05:08Is it dead?

05:09You put it on the Demogorgon or DemoBats or DemoDogs?

05:13I don't know what any of these things mean, but sure.

05:15Demolition days.

05:16Demolition days.

05:18All right.

05:18So, let's look at the magnification capabilities of the VB Mini.

05:22And so, we can magnify up to 10x.

05:25The battery life is two and a half hours.

05:27With the device on here, I will say it's a little uncomfortable for me.

05:31Now, I do have my glasses on underneath, which I really shouldn't.

05:33But I have found that it does press against my nose quite a bit.

05:36So, that is something worth bearing in mind here.

05:38Now, you guys should be seeing some footage from the headset.

05:41Unfortunately, because we're just recording here.

05:42We have just our, you know, recording room here.

05:45Nothing too exciting to look at.

05:47But I'll go ahead and zoom in here.

05:49There is a button on the side that we can use to do that.

05:51And as we zoom in, let's look at Jonathan over here.

05:54He told me he needs to get a haircut so we can zoom in and decide whether that's true or

05:58not.

05:58Let's find out if that's true.

05:59Yeah.

05:59So, here he is.

06:01We've zoomed in here.

06:02Let's go ahead and zoom out again.

06:04I will say the image quality is pretty good.

06:06It's definitely an improvement over the Vision Buddy that we have looked at previously.

06:10So, the resolution, I assume, of the camera has been increased and the screens are nice and bright as well.

06:15Now, you do get a good field of view even though the Vision Buddy Mini is smaller

06:19because it is still that enclosed VR style design.

06:23If we go ahead and look at something up close here.

06:25So, here we have a Vision Forward catalog.

06:27The autofocus did a great job there of bringing that into focus.

06:31And if I go ahead and turn the page here and we'll look at some of this text.

06:35Now, this text is kind of larger and, you know, more bold maybe than your regular type of print.

06:40But let's go ahead and zoom in here and see what this looks like.

06:44And, yeah, I mean, we do get some of that kind of blurriness that's introduced as we zoom in.

06:48But, in general, this does look pretty nice and sharp.

06:52And the magnification really, you know, there's plenty of magnification there to do the job.

06:56But very easy to control here just using the magnification controls as well.

07:01Now, those are located on the left side of the headset.

07:03So, you do need to reach up to the side of the headset in order to zoom in and out

07:06and use some of the other features as well.

07:08So, that is worth bearing in mind.

07:10But, yeah, so far so good.

07:12Magnification looks good.

07:13So, in this magnification mode, it's just straight color.

07:17Yeah, this is regular color.

07:18Yeah.

07:18Okay.

07:19And then you have the only way to change the magnification right now is up on the device itself.

07:24Yeah.

07:24As far as I know, yeah, there's no remote control or anything like that.

07:27So, let's go ahead and look at the reading mode, which is going to give us false colors

07:31and a little OCR surprise as well.

07:37All right.

07:37So, we've seen the magnification mode, but how about the reading mode?

07:40Well, let's go ahead and check it out.

07:42I have some handy reading materials right here.

07:45And so, we're going to go ahead and look at these.

07:47Now, the reading mode is a little bit strange.

07:48I'm going to go ahead and press the button on the right side.

07:51That's the mode button.

07:51It's going to put me into the reading mode.

07:53Now, the reading mode appears just to be grayscale.

07:56So, we change into a different color.

07:57This is a grayscale.

07:58So, it's all black and white, basically.

07:59And I'll go ahead and zoom up.

08:02As far as I can tell, there are no other colors available.

08:05And so, it is just this black and white, which does seem like a bit of an odd choice.

08:10But in any case, here we go.

08:11We have this black and white.

08:13And we can obviously then zoom in and out as necessary.

08:16All of that works as you would expect.

08:18But we do have a little trick here.

08:20Are you getting better?

08:21So, when we were in the magnifier, the color mode, and you zoomed in a little bit, you

08:24were getting some blurriness.

08:26Is it better in this grayscale?

08:30Yeah, that's a good question.

08:31It does appear to be better.

08:32But also, I've taken off my glasses now to see if the headset's a bit more comfortable.

08:36And the headset definitely is a bit more comfortable with my glasses off.

08:40I will say, though, it could do with a bit more padding around the forehead and a bit

08:44more padding on the nose as well.

08:46That's for my face, at least.

08:47You know, everybody's different.

08:49We do have a little trick here, though, which is kind of cool.

08:51We do have built-in OCR.

08:53And this is optical character recognition.

08:55We can have text read aloud to us through the OCR.

08:58And in order to do this, we're going to look at the document.

09:01And we're going to hold the magnification up button.

09:03That will put us in the OCR mode.

09:05Let me try this now.

09:07I'm going to hold it for four seconds.

09:10OCR mode.

09:11Select text in viewer and release button to read.

09:14Tells you what to do.

09:15Put the text in the viewer and then release the button to read.

09:17So I'll release the button now.

09:23HS51,777C9.

09:24Cup-resistant safety gloves.

09:26These comfortable gloves are made of tough stainless steel and cup-resistant...

09:30Ooh, comfortable gloves.

09:31Safety.

09:34And I stopped it by pressing the mode button on the side.

09:36Now, I have to say, the OCR actually did a really good job there.

09:39It was very accurate in its reading, which was nice to see.

09:42Very easy to do as well.

09:44The only downside, and I think you'll agree, Corey, is the quality of the voice isn't the best.

09:48Yeah, I'd be curious.

09:49I don't know if the settings allow you to change the voice, but it is not.

09:53You're right.

09:53It's not the greatest quality.

09:55I mean, the quality of the OCR was pretty good.

09:59Yes.

10:00I didn't make any mistakes at all.

10:02And I find it interesting.

10:03A lot of wearables are going away from OCR.

10:06We're seeing that removed from a lot of devices.

10:09So it's interesting to see VisionBuddy sort of sticking with OCR and still offering it.

10:14Yeah, it's always a nice feature to have.

10:16I do think the speaker's a little tinny and the voice isn't the best quality.

10:18You can plug headphones in, though.

10:20I should point that out.

10:20And there is also a volume control as well for adjusting the OCR.

10:24All right.

10:24So that was the reading mode.

10:26The OCR stuff is pretty cool.

10:27A bit weird that the reading colors have been chosen as black and white.

10:31If I hold my hand out here, we can see that pretty clearly that my hand is in grayscale.

10:34But all in all, it does what it says on the tin.

10:38So, Corey, with that being said, shall we take a look at the next feature?

10:41One of the big features for VisionBuddy since they started, the television mode.

10:45Let's do it.

10:46All right.

10:46We can watch some Stranger Things.

10:47Let's not do it.

10:49Next section.

10:50Skip.

10:51Skip.

10:54OK, so on to television streaming mode.

10:57Now, this has been a big selling point for the VisionBuddy since the original model.

11:01And since then, other companies have copied what they have been doing.

11:04But these guys are the OGs.

11:06And basically, the idea is that you can stream wirelessly television to the headset.

11:12And so the headset becomes your television, basically, Corey.

11:15Yeah, it's kind of cool the way they do it.

11:17They have a streaming box.

11:19I think what's the coolest part that I always liked about it is it allows you to watch TV

11:25or a movie with family.

11:27And you can magnify it without affecting what's showing on the TV in your living room or whatever.

11:35Yeah.

11:36So with the streaming box, basically, there are two HDMI ports.

11:39One is an HDMI in.

11:40And you would plug your television service into that, for example.

11:43A Fire Stick, an Apple TV, a cable box, whatever.

11:45And then there's an HDMI out that would go to the regular television.

11:49So people in the room with you can still watch the regular television.

11:52But in the meantime, the streaming box is sending the signal to the goggles, to the Vision Buddy headset.

12:00And as a user, then, you're wearing the headset.

12:03You're seeing the image in the headset.

12:04You're hearing sound through the headset.

12:07And that's all happening wirelessly.

12:08So you're seeing that in the headset.

12:10The family's watching it on the TV.

12:11And everybody, Corey, is happy.

12:14Everybody's happy.

12:14Unless they're watching Stranger Things Season 5.

12:17Then they're not happy.

12:18Then they're quite sad.

12:20So let's see this in action.

12:21I do have this hooked up at the moment on the television.

12:24Over to my left, we do have one of our previous videos all ready to go.

12:28And when I put the headset on, I will be able to see that in the headset.

12:31So I'm going to put the headset on here.

12:33Okay.

12:34I'm in the magnification mode.

12:35I'm going to use the mode button to get to the television mode.

12:38Reading mode.

12:41Television mode.

12:41And in a second, I should see the image here.

12:43There it is.

12:44And Corey, if you could start playing the video, please.

12:48An exciting episode of TechConnect.

12:53That's right.

12:54We are showing the latest assistive technology.

12:56And today we are showing assistive access.

13:02All those pesky icons just so small.

13:06All right.

13:07Let's pause it.

13:08So one thing I noticed right away.

13:10And I think there's probably a couple solutions you could do here is that not only were you, I assume

13:16you were seeing it inside the goggles, but you were also getting the audio.

13:20I was.

13:20And that could be a little, a bit of an issue, but that is.

13:24Well, you should say, you should say why that could be an issue.

13:26Because there's a bit of lag in between the Google and the TV.

13:30It was less about the lag that I think is the issue.

13:32But if I was a family member sitting next to you, I'm annoyed by hearing that.

13:37Okay.

13:37So you could fix that in a couple of different ways, right?

13:39Well, number one, you could wear headphones.

13:41Indeed.

13:41The Vision Buddy Mini does have headphones, so that would clear that up.

13:44Or I thought the lag was, well, and I don't know, maybe, maybe as some, you would have to do

13:49it, test it yourself and find out.

13:51The lag was not that much that you might be able to just turn the volume down on your VB

13:56Mini and listen to the audio from the TV.

13:58Although you wouldn't be, again, there was a tiny lag, but I don't know, something to test out to see

14:03how you would want to do it.

14:04Yeah, so the signal, both the video and the audio signal in the headset is slightly delayed compared to the

14:09signal going to the TV.

14:10And so you are seeing and hearing things slightly after they are appearing on the television.

14:15Now, if you did, for example, turn down the audio on the headset, which you could do, and just listen

14:21to the audio on the television,

14:22there will be a desync then in between the image you're seeing in the goggles versus the sound that you're

14:27hearing.

14:27But that, you know, it was a very short delay.

14:30They seem to have improved that quite a lot, that delay issue.

14:32So, yeah, maybe that would still be feasible.

14:35As I was wearing the headset, Corey, I was zooming in on the image.

14:38And just to show how that works, and we captured some footage of that, you can zoom in on the

14:42television image.

14:43And basically, you end up having this giant screen in front of you.

14:46Imagine that you're sat in a cinema, you have this huge screen in front of you.

14:49That's kind of the experience.

14:50It's really cool.

14:51And the nice thing is we're not looking at the actual television.

14:54It's just being sent to the headset.

14:55So we're not losing image clarity by looking at the television through a camera and through another screen.

15:01We're just getting the direct image of the TV.

15:03And I've often found, Corey, that that gives us the best quality image.

15:06Yeah, and it allows you to continue to sit in your chair.

15:09Exactly.

15:10You don't have to get really close.

15:11You don't have to change all that.

15:13To get sitting in a chair, Corey, I'm lying on the bed.

15:15That's, you could do that.

15:16Or on the toilet.

15:18You can do it wherever you want to.

15:19Exactly.

15:20All right.

15:21So the television stuff works just as well as you would expect from Vision Buddy.

15:24And in fact, even a little bit better than I was expecting because the lag has been reduced even more

15:29than previously.

15:30Exactly.

15:30So good stuff, Corey.

15:31Let's jump into the next section and take a look at the computer link and the CCTV camera.

15:39All right.

15:40We're going to be moving on to the next section here, but we were going to talk about the camera,

15:45but we have one other feature mode that we want to talk about, and that is the computer mode.

15:50The VB Mini can be connected directly into your computer, and then your VB Mini becomes the display.

15:59So basically, you're using an HDMI to USB-C cable, and then your computer display is sent into the Vision

16:07Buddy Mini, and from there that becomes your computer display.

16:10And then you can use the controls on the side of the Vision Buddy Mini to adjust magnification so you

16:16can zoom in and zoom out.

16:18So forget ZoomText, forget your Windows magnifier.

16:22The VB Mini is your new magnification computer tool.

16:27All right.

16:27There you go.

16:28Yeah.

16:28I mean, the advantage is you've got this screen right in front of your face, and it's pretty large.

16:32Yeah.

16:33So you've already got this large screen, and you can zoom in to make it even bigger.

16:36Pretty cool stuff.

16:37Now, unfortunately, we can't demo that, per se.

16:39Well, there isn't a whole lot to demo.

16:41That's what we just talked about.

16:42So why don't we move on to camera that we can demo?

16:44Indeed, we can.

16:45Now, we can't record footage of this, but we can at least show how it works.

16:48So I have here the Vision Buddy Camera.

16:51I'm not sure if this has a fancier name, but I'm going to call it the Vision Buddy Camera.

16:55It's the VB Cam.

16:55The VB Cam.

16:56Okay.

16:56There you go.

16:57VB Cam.

16:57Now, this thing is really nice.

16:58It's got a very weighty base to keep it nice and stable.

17:01It's well-articulated arm with the camera on the end, so you can adjust it to whatever position that makes

17:07the most sense for you.

17:08And on the base, there are a few buttons.

17:10Now, this camera, as far as I can tell, it does need to be plugged in.

17:14Although maybe it has a battery built in.

17:16This is a good question.

17:16I'm going to unplug it and we'll see what happens.

17:18Are we ready?

17:18All right.

17:19Are we ready?

17:19Here we go.

17:20I unplugged it and it turned off.

17:21So I'm going to say it does have to be plugged in.

17:23Or the battery's not charged.

17:24Or the battery's not charged.

17:26And the way that we connect the VB Mini headset to the camera is with that same USB-C to

17:33HDMI cord that Corey had referenced for connecting to your computer.

17:37So it's the same type of cord.

17:39And of course, this comes with the headset.

17:40So it plugs into the bottom of the headset.

17:44And then the HDMI end is going to plug into the VB cam.

17:48And we'll go ahead and do that now.

17:51Now, at this point, we are able to receive a direct image from the camera here into the headset.

17:58So basically, we have a CCTV solution where we are using the VB Mini as the screen for the CCTV.

18:06What advantage does this have, Corey?

18:09Well, I think it takes up a little less space, especially if you're traveling or for work.

18:14You're already going to maybe bring your VB Mini with you.

18:18So now you're just throwing this camera in and now you've got yourself a pretty good reading and writing.

18:24And it gives you good hands-free.

18:28Ah, yes.

18:28So it's pretty easy to do more than just reading and writing.

18:32I could imagine you being able to do craft or woodworking or even some self-care, your nails, whatever it

18:38might be.

18:39All that good stuff.

18:40Indeed, yeah.

18:40And of course, we could just read using the VB Mini without the camera just by looking at the document.

18:45But that can be tricky because when you're holding the document and your hands are moving a bit and your

18:49head's moving a bit,

18:50and it can kind of make it a little tricky to read effectively.

18:54But with this, we don't have to worry about it because the camera is static.

18:57And so the image is static even if I move my head.

19:00So I'm going to go ahead and put on the VB Mini here and we'll go into the correct mode.

19:07Television mode. Computer mode.

19:10And here we are in the computer mode.

19:12And I am seeing the image from the camera and I have my document underneath.

19:18And at this point, I can just move my document under the camera as I read.

19:23And it's going to allow me then to go through the text, read the text there.

19:27And of course, I can utilize magnification either on the left side of the headset or using the buttons on

19:32the camera itself.

19:33We also have a handy focusing button on the camera base there to focus the text if necessary.

19:39So all in all, a really cool feature.

19:41It definitely makes the headset more usable for reading for those people who might have struggled in the past trying

19:46to read with a wearable.

19:47This is a fantastic solution. And because we are connected directly with HDMI, there is zero lag and that makes

19:53the whole process just work that much better.

19:56So all in all, a really cool feature. And as far as I know, Corey, nobody else is doing this.

20:01So let's give Vision Buddy two thumbs up. Are you ready? On the count of three.

20:06Well, you already didn't know.

20:07No, nobody saw that. Go.

20:08Three, two, one.

20:10Two thumbs up.

20:11You said on the count of three and then you counted down from three.

20:14You just can't put two thumbs together.

20:16All right. With that being said, let's go ahead. Did we finish all the sections?

20:20We did. We're going to head to our wrap up.

20:22Let's wrap this up. Goodbye.

20:27Stranger Things.

20:28Yes.

20:29Still very sad about it.

20:30But you know what I'm not sad about?

20:32What's that?

20:32The Vision Buddy Mini.

20:34Because when it came to season five of Vision Buddy Mini, they did not let us down.

20:40Well, I actually think theoretically this might be season four, depending on how you look at it.

20:44Or we could just go with the joke and...

20:47Well, the other reason I say that is they have a Vision Buddy 4 Max as well at the same

20:52time as the VK.

20:52I hear you. Okay.

20:54Okay.

20:54Anyway, the point is, it's a good headset, Corey. I'm a fan of this thing.

21:00Yeah.

21:00Okay. Now, it's not the most comfortable I've ever worn, but that will probably vary depending on your head shape.

21:06And could potentially be fixed with some pads that could be sent out that you could put on the nose.

21:11That is true.

21:12So, at least, you know, I mean, I feel like that's a potential easier fix than saying something like the

21:19picture quality is horrible or...

21:21Well, that's a good point.

21:21You know what I mean?

21:22Yeah.

21:22They do nail the important things.

21:24We've got good picture quality.

21:25Yes.

21:26We have got a slim design.

21:29Yes.

21:29Good range of magnification.

21:31Good.

21:31Color mode is a little bit disappointing.

21:33The reading mode, just because we only get the grayscale.

21:35Sure.

21:35But OCR.

21:36OCR worked quite well.

21:37Yeah.

21:38Television streaming works as well as it has done in the past.

21:41Which is one of the strong suits of Vision.

21:43Yeah.

21:43That was kind of their unique selling point originally.

21:45But this CCTV camera, I have to say, Corey, this is my favorite thing of all.

21:49I know.

21:49It was hard to get us to move on to the next section because you were having fun playing with

21:53it.

21:53I was.

21:53And unfortunately, the sad thing about it is we can't really demonstrate it that great in this video.

21:59But it just works really great.

22:02Like you get a really good quality image from the camera.

22:05There's no lag.

22:06And it's so much easier to read when you've got the static camera versus trying to read with the camera

22:12in the headset.

22:13Is it also something you like because you may have been the one who thought of this idea to get

22:19from the get-go?

22:20I'm going to say that I was the inspiration behind this idea, but it's never been confirmed by the Vision

22:25Buddy team.

22:26Sure.

22:26There's no proof.

22:28There is no proof.

22:28Except I was there, but I guess we don't.

22:32It was never trademarked.

22:33No.

22:34Or patented.

22:35We mentioned something and it was implemented.

22:38And, you know, internally, I take the credit for that.

22:41I sleep better at night knowing that you came up with this idea.

22:46Maybe that's the only reason that I like it so much.

22:48We've got a bunch of videos on wearables, so check out the channel because we have good stuff on this

22:55channel.

22:55We like to think so.

22:56And if you agree with us, then we would love for you to subscribe and go ahead and hit that

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23:07Talking about getting out the videos, we have a learning management system.

23:10And at the moment, we have a great series on how to use a screen reader, which will take you

23:13through from basic principles all the way up to internet browsing skills.

23:17Now, at the moment, we just have a couple of the courses out.

23:19We have basic Windows skills and then we also have file management.

23:24That's correct.

23:25Yeah.

23:25So those are our two courses at the moment.

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23:43and get even goofier than we are here.

23:46Indeed.

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23:51You'll find that podcast.

23:52So we got a bunch going on.

23:54So stick with our channel.

23:56We will always release only the best information for you.

24:01That's a true story.

24:02With that being said, me, you and our new buddy, it's time for us to get out of here.

24:06So we'll see you all in the next video.

24:08VB Mini out.

24:09So we'll see you next time.

24:14So we'll be right back, right?

24:17See ya.

24:18See ya.

24:23Bye.

24:23Here everyone.

24:27Bye.

24:29Bye.

24:32Bye.

24:33I'm a computer, we can't.

24:36Maybe hold the CCTV a little closer to the camera.

24:39I'll do whatever the hell I want to do, Jonathan.

24:41I said maybe.

24:43I didn't say do it.

24:45It made me think about it.

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