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what will it be like when you can one day help visually impaired people solve their life difficulties through a mobile app?

recently, app Be My Eyes it went viral on social platforms. netizens shared their experiences in Be My Eyes his experience of helping the visually impaired, helping them check the shelf life of food, adjust the temperature of air conditioners... these actions have infected more people, and everyone has downloaded the software, hoping to become the eyes of others.

on an ordinary day

become a stranger's eyes for a short time

in the apple store, the introduction to this software states: people who are blind or have low vision can use Be My Eyes connect with volunteers around the world, available 24 hours a day.

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in fact, this software has been around for many years, and you can even find reviews from five or six years ago in the app reviews. based on real feedback from users, the working logic of the software is that visually impaired people make video calls, and volunteers on the other end of the phone can provide services based on the video footage and the needs of the visually impaired people.

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entering the app interface, more than 700,000 visually impaired people and nearly 8 million volunteers have successfully registered. after setting the commonly used languages ​​and determining the role, both blind people and volunteers can make and receive calls at any time, and it will be free forever.

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some netizens said that they actually received a call for help. a visually impaired man wanted to eat a bowl of spicy hotpot, and the volunteers on the opposite side accompanied him through video for a long time. it was indeed a warm and wonderful experience.

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"help her adjust the alarm clock, ringtone, date, and volume

we spent two hours with each other”

it is difficult for anyone to imagine the hardships that visually impaired people may encounter in life. volunteers who receive the call will be like didi drivers grabbing online orders, taking orders and solving the requests on the other side of the screen. as for what the request is, it varies.

some netizens posted the whole process after receiving the call. the guy opposite wanted to know the shelf life of the ham sausage, so he called for help.

"you wanted to turn it around, but you took it backwards."

"it was held upside down, held upside down."

"it's a little blurry, a little hard to see."

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just looking at the shelf life of a food product, the volunteer communicated with the little brother who was in trouble for a long time, and finally saw the answer he wanted on the packaging. "it is so difficult for them to do something as simple as checking the shelf life."

when a blind man wanted to cook, a netizen found that the room was too dark and used his own mobile phone to turn on the flashlight of the other person's mobile phone. after successfully helping others cook, i later realized that it wasn't that the room was too dark, but that blind people didn't need to turn on the lights at night.

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there are also family members of visually impaired people who help download this app, hoping that volunteers can provide help when they are not around. "he is always embarrassed to trouble others, and he always thinks that i am too busy and does not want to trouble me. god knows how much he has suffered from this."

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"it took us two hours to help her adjust the alarm clock, ringtone, date, and sound volume. even for such a small thing, we spent two hours on each other." a netizen shared his experience. we only need to move our fingers and it can be done in one minute. i can't imagine how they usually accomplish it.

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a very meaningful app and a group of caring people. some netizens feel that these warm stories can become reading comprehension materials on english test papers. immediately, some netizens came out to confirm that this article actually appeared in the english reading comprehension a section of the high school mock exam in nanjing.

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he even posted photos of the test papers:

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according to public information, the developer of this app is hans jørgen wiberg, a visually impaired dane. hans has clearly felt that his eyesight is deteriorating since he was 25 years old.

with this original intention in mind, hans collaborated with danish software studio robocat to develop be my eyes.

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many netizens use this app to learn about a completely unfamiliar world - the world of the blind.

the blind people are anxiously waiting for a stranger to answer their call in the app. the stranger opposite lives in another world, and his world is full of light and kindness.

currently, netizens can also download be my eyes in china, but due tothe number of volunteers is much higher than that of visually impaired friends, so it is even harder to receive calls for help on this app than it is for didi drivers to grab orders.

but this doesn’t exactly mean that we are the only ones helping others in the world, aren’t we?

comprehensive report by xiaoxiang morning news reporter liu zhongyu