translation software founded 2009 2009 1 founder otavio good 1 headquarters san francisco california u.s. number of locations 1 office area served worldwide key people otavio good programmer and ceo john deweese eric park bryan lin maia good software engineers products word lens number of employees 4 2014 website questvisual.com quest visual inc. was an american private company that developed an augmented reality translation software word lens . 1 in may 2014 the company was acquired by google inc. 2 3 4 contents 1 company 2 products 3 see also 4 references 5 external links company edit quest visual was founded by a former video game developer otavio good 5 6 7 in 2009 . 1 at the time of acquisition the company had 4 full time employees otavio good john deweese bryan lin and eric park as well as a contractor maia good . 7 the details of the acquisition have not been released . 2 3 4 8 products edit main article word lens quest visual s first product word lens 1.0 was released on december 16 2010 5 and is currently available as word lens 2.2.3 9 for apple s iphone ipod and ipad through itunes 9 as well as for a selection of android smartphones through google play . 10 at google s unveiling of its glass development kit in november 2013 translation capabilities of word lens were also demonstrated on google glass . 11 12 13 14 according to the january 2014 new york times article word lens is currently free for google glass . 15 moreover following acquisition google made all word lens language packs freely available for a limited time . 3 4 8 8 16 17 word lens capabilities were incorporated into the google translate app and released on january 14 2015 . 18 19 20 21 the company did not have any other products by the time of acquisition . 22 see also edit word lens augmented reality optical character recognition google translate references edit a b c d armstrong natalie april 19 2011 . word lens app developer builds on social media buzz . reuters . retrieved april 19 2011 . a b etherington darrell may 16 2014 . google has acquired quest visual the maker of camera based translation app word lens . techcrunch . a b c rosenblatt seth may 16 2014 . google buys word lens maker to boost translate . cnet . a b c hall zac may 16 2014 . google acquires word lens app recently featured in apple s iphone ad powerful . 9to5mac . a b tsotsis alexia december 16 2010 . word lens translates words inside of images . yes really . techcrunch . retrieved april 19 2011 . cite error invalid ref tag ; name techcrunch .2 c dec 16 defined multiple times with different content see the help page . milian mark december 20 2010 . new iphone app translates foreign language signs . cnn tech . retrieved april 19 2010 . a b olson parmy december 22 2010 . hot new word lens app is founder s first project in augmented reality . forbes . retrieved april 19 2011 . a b c winkler rolfe may 16 2014 . google tries another reality with quest visual purchase . the wall street journal . a b word lens on the itunes app store . itunes.apple.com . 2012 . retrieved january 18 2015 . word lens on the google play store . google . 2012 . retrieved january 18 2015 . gannes liz november 19 2013 . next google glass tricks include translating the world from your eyes . all things digital . honan mat november 19 2013 . google s new tools show how deep glass will embed in our lives . wired gadget lab . rosenblatt seth november 19 2013 . google glass throws open its doors to developers . cnet . lardinois frederic november 24 2013 . glass just got way more interesting . techcrunch . rosenbloom stephanie january 23 2014 . google tools for globetrotters . the new york times travel . tschorn adam may 22 2014 . say what word lens translation app is easy and free for now . los angeles times . quest visual is joining google . questvisual.com . 2014 . retrieved may 26 2014 . turovsky barak january 14 2015 . hallo hola ol to the new more powerful google translate app . google official blog . retrieved january 14 2015 . dougherty conor january 14 2015 . google translate app gets an upgrade . the new york times bits . retrieved january 17 2015 . rosenbloom stephanie january 14 2015 . updates for google translate just hold up your phone . the new york times in transit . retrieved january 18 2015 . ulanoff lance january 15 2015 . hands on with google translate a mix of awesome and ok . mashable . retrieved january 18 2015 . quest visual website . questvisual.com . 2011 . retrieved april 20 2011 . external links edit quest visual homepage word lens on itunes original video demonstration of word lens otavio good explains word lens 1.0.1 interview with reuters retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title quest visual & oldid 743699727 categories companies based in san franciscosoftware companies of the united statesgoogle acquisitionshidden categories pages with reference errorspages with duplicate reference names navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 10 october 2016 at 19 45 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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