Google will soon roll out its new app Lookout to help visually impaired and blind Global Edition

Google has announced the development of its new Android application'Lookout' with the motive to help blind and visually impaired people, assisting them to learn about their surroundings. The app will be available to the Play Store in the US this year and will aid visually impaired by giving auditory cues as they encounter objects, text, and people around them. After opening the app, and selecting a mode, Lookout processes items of importance in your environment and shares information it believes to be relevant--text from a recipe book, or the location of a bathroom, an exit sign, a chair or a person nearby Lookout delivers spoken notifications, designed to be used with minimal interaction allowing people to stay engaged with their activity. There are over 253 million blind or visually impaired people in the world. To make the world more accessible to them, we need to build tools that can work with the ever-changing environment around us, the company blogged.