Virtual Collaboration Research Inc.

Virtual Collaboration Research Inc., operating under the name Mediate, is a Boston-based research and innovation lab working at the intersection of computer vision and augmented reality. Since 2017 the team, with members previously at MIT and Harvard, has developed cutting-edge neural networks in collaboration with MIT to parse 3D spaces in real time on edge devices. Its flagship product, Supersense, is a mobile scanner app that helps blind and visually impaired users read text, currency, and objects using AI. The lab is supported by the National Science Foundation and the US Department of Veterans Affairs.