Smart Glasses See the World
Auralink glasses are equipped with high-resolution wide-angle cameras and depth sensors that continuously capture everything in front of the wearer: obstacles, signage, people, steps, and more.
Camera + Depth Sensing
NovaUCD Competition Winners · Fighting Blindness Ireland
Your world, narrated
in real time.
Auralink uses AI-powered smart glasses to give blind and visually impaired people real-time navigation, hazard detection, and audio guidance, so they can move through the world with confidence and independence.
Prototype live · Ireland launch 2026
AUDIO GUIDANCE
Turn left in 20 metres.
As seen in
295 million people. Afraid to step outside.
"Every time I leave the house, I feel like I'm walking into the unknown. The fear isn't the darkness; it's not knowing what's coming."
"I stopped going to the corner shop alone two years ago. One bad fall and you lose confidence completely. You start to shrink your world."
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visually impaired worldwide
1 in 0
never leave home alone
€0B
accessibility tech market
Current assistive tools, white canes and guide dogs, provide no real-time hazard information and rely entirely on memory. In a world of scooters, construction, and digital navigation, they haven't changed in 70 years. We can do better.
How It Works
From sight to sound in 50 milliseconds.
Three seamless steps. Designed to feel invisible, so wearers can focus on living, not on their technology.
AI Processes in Real Time
Our on-device AI engine, trained on millions of real-world scenes, identifies hazards, reads text, recognises faces, and plots navigation paths in under 50ms. No cloud. No latency. No data leaving the device.
Edge AI · <50ms latency
Audio Guidance, Instantly
Crystal-clear directional audio is delivered through bone-conduction speakers built into the glasses frame, keeping the wearer fully aware of their surroundings while receiving precise, natural-language navigation cues.
Bone Conduction Audio
Live AI Demo
See what Auralink sees.
This is the view from Auralink glasses walking through Dublin city centre, with real-time AI detection identifying every hazard, landmark, and cue.
Audio
🚶 Pedestrian ahead: move slightly right
Object Detection
200+ object classes identified in real time
Edge Processing
All AI runs on-device with zero cloud dependency
Natural Audio
Human-paced voice guidance in 14 languages
Official Demos
Don't take our word for it. Watch it work.
Real footage of the Auralink prototype: the same working demo that won the NovaUCD Student Enterprise Competition.
Real users. Real independence. With Vision Ireland.
A blind member of the Vision Ireland community trying Auralink for the first time in a safe environment. This is the moment the technology stops being a prototype and starts being independence.
More from the prototype
Walking through town
Auralink guiding a walk through a real town centre, with live hazard detection and clear audio cues, exactly as the user hears them.
Buying a Luas ticket, independently
Auralink narrates a Luas ticket machine screen step by step, from selecting a destination to collecting the ticket.
Why Now
Three forces converging.
The technology, the market, and the urgency have never aligned like this before.
AI is finally fast enough.
Edge computing breakthroughs mean full scene understanding now runs in under 50ms on a device the size of a thumbnail. Two years ago this was impossible. Today it's Auralink.
<50mson-device inference
Smart glasses are going mainstream.
Meta, Ray-Ban, and Google have proven that people will wear AI-powered glasses daily. The hardware platform exists, the consumer acceptance is proven, and we are building the software layer for the 295 million who need it most.
14M+smart glasses sold in 2025 · 140% YoY growth
No solution exists yet.
The global accessibility tech market is worth €25 billion and growing rapidly, yet no company has built a real-time, AI-native navigation system for the visually impaired. The gap is enormous. The moment is now.
0direct competitors at scale
Traction & Credibility
Built with Ireland's best.
We're proud to be supported by institutions that share our vision of a more accessible world.
Nova Competition Winners
NovaUCD
University College Dublin
Auralink won the NovaUCD Enterprise Competition, UCD's most prestigious programme for startups with the potential to scale globally. Beating out a highly competitive field of early-stage ventures, the win puts us alongside Ireland's top founders, investors, and expert mentors at one of Europe's leading research universities.
Winners of UCD's most competitive startup programme
Research & Community Partner
Fighting Blindness Ireland
Ireland's leading sight loss research charity
Fighting Blindness Ireland is our anchor partner for research, community access, and clinical credibility. They connect us directly with the visually impaired community, ensuring every product decision is grounded in real user needs. Their backing gives Auralink both the trust of the community we serve and the scientific rigour our technology demands.
Connecting us with the community we serve
The winning moment
🏆 Accepting the One to Watch prize
NovaUCD Student Enterprise Competition 2026
🏆 Demoing the prototype at NovaUCD
University College Dublin, June 2026
Press coverage
Silicon Republic
Students behind assistive tech start-up win NovaUCD contest
“The Dublin-based venture stood out for its mission-driven approach to solving a real-world accessibility problem using cutting-edge AI.”
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ThinkBusiness
Dublin start-up building AI assistive tech named 'One to Watch'
“Auralink is developing smart glasses that use AI to give real-time navigation and hazard detection to people with visual impairments.”
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Business Plus
Start-up using AI to assist visually impaired wins NovaUCD Student Enterprise Competition
“The team impressed judges with a working prototype and a clear path to commercialisation in the growing assistive technology market.”
Read article →
Our Progress
Feb 2026
V1 Prototype Built
First working Auralink prototype with real-time object detection and audio guidance
Mar 2026
Fighting Blindness Partnership
Formal partnership established with Fighting Blindness Ireland for research and community access
May 2026
🏆 Won NovaUCD Competition
Beat a highly competitive field to win the NovaUCD Enterprise Competition at University College Dublin
In ProgressLIVE
Pre-Seed Raise
Actively raising pre-seed funding to accelerate development and build key partnerships
- Feb 2026
V1 Prototype Built
First working Auralink prototype with real-time object detection and audio guidance
- Mar 2026
Fighting Blindness Partnership
Formal partnership established with Fighting Blindness Ireland for research and community access
- May 2026
🏆 Won NovaUCD Competition
Beat a highly competitive field to win the NovaUCD Enterprise Competition at University College Dublin
- In ProgressLIVE
Pre-Seed Raise
Actively raising pre-seed funding to accelerate development and build key partnerships
The Team
Built by people who care deeply.
We're not building Auralink for a pitch deck. We're building it because the world needs it, and because we believe we can.
Scott Nagle
Co-Founder & CEO
Drives Auralink's strategy, fundraising, and key partnerships. Scott brings a founder's relentlessness and a deep conviction that technology should serve people first, especially those who need it most.
StrategyFundraisingPartnerships
Jake Fang
Founding Engineer
The builder behind Auralink's core product and prototype. Jake translates complex AI research into reliable, real-world hardware and software, making the prototype not just work, but work brilliantly.
Product BuildPrototypeFull-Stack
Suyun Zheng
Co-Founder & Medical Lead
Brings ophthalmology expertise and clinical rigour to everything Auralink builds. Suyun ensures our technology meets the real needs of visually impaired users: safely, accurately, and with clinical integrity.
OphthalmologyClinical ResearchMedical Affairs
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