Smartglasses CV tells flower pickers what to harvest, cutting seasonal training to zero
nptacek · x · 2026-11-05
A practical computer vision use case on smartglasses: the system detects which flowers are ready to pick and which are too early. It's used to train seasonal workers, reducing training time to zero.
The poster notes the commercial stakes: picking a day too early or too late makes a huge revenue difference, so timing decisions directly hit the bottom line.
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