A chilly visit to Alberta inspired Oak Bay resident Keith WellsB次元官网网址� latest tech offering to preserve precious memories.
Wells was already looking to craft an app when he attended an uncleB次元官网网址檚 funeral in Edmonton this January. He also founded B次元官网网址 Ltd., now the No.2 provider of digital sports highlights in the United States and No. 1 in Canada.
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The death in the family inspired ImbueApp, a hot topic of conversation during the morning coffee crew at Starbucks on Oak Bay Avenue.
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The ImbueApp preserves family memories. It uses machine learning from the Google Cloud Vision API to identify items. Stories and memories are then permanently connected to the items, in the cloud.
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This secure app allows someone to organize and share stories about special items and treasures or heirlooms and even a voice on one secure permanent memory place.
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Victoria design and development studio Freshworks is developing the ImbueApp for iOS and Android.
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While they explore the opportunities and Wells is already Imbuing locations.
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ImbueApp also has a , with a $20,000 goal by Oct. 20.
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