There are estimated to be over 30 million blind and partially sighted persons in Europe. Visual impairment causes problems that are not fixable by usual means like glasses. It also reduces a person’s ability to meet personal, social or occupational demands. The EU-funded TIRESIA project will focus on children. It will develop an innovative technology that extends residual sight using augmented reality (AR). As such, it will boost vision automatically, delivering socially relevant and supportive visual information. It will design special visual filters for AR glasses. The long-term goal is to promote social inclusion and improve quality of life for visually impaired individuals.