He is the original author of Word Lens, the first augmented reality translation application that replaces printed text into the desired language in video without connection to the Internet.

[4][5][6] Because of its potential impact on international travel, Word Lens received significant amount of attention[7][8][9][10][11][12][13] following its release on December 16, 2010,[4] including Wired,[14] The Economist,[15] CNN,[5][16] The New York Times,[17][18] Forbes,[6] The Wall Street Journal,[19] and MIT Technology Review.

[2] To develop Word Lens, Otávio Good founded Quest Visual Inc., which was acquired by Google, Inc. in 2014,[20][21][22][23][24][25] leading to the incorporation of the Word Lens feature into the Google Translate app in 2015.

[31] Word Lens feature was expanded from 7 to 27 languages of the Google Translate app in 2015,[32] and then to both simplified and traditional Chinese in 2016.

[1][3] In 2011, Otávio Good led the team All Your Shreds Are Belong to U.S. that won the DARPA Shredder Challenge 2011.