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Fantasy: a smart guy would make a discreet 360 degree camera necklace which encodes objects as sounds, and features for facial expressions and signs. And traini
by aitchnyu 4y ago
Fantasy: a smart guy would make a discreet 360 degree camera necklace which encodes objects as sounds, and features for facial expressions and signs. And training would be in VR, so they can can learn about train platforms, narrow hiking tracks, dangerous footpaths, surrounded by snarling stray dogs etc in a safe environment.
- bluGill 4y agoSounds like something someone who can see thinks up for the blind. If you do any study at all on the blind you will discover that a lot of gadgets that seem like they would be great are not very helpful. None of the things you bring up are issues most blind people worry about. Train platforms are designed with bumps on the edge to the blind can feel where to go. (if your local trains station doesn't have this fire management and get it fixed). The blind mostly are not going on narrow hiking paths. There are plenty of places to hike that are not narrow, dangerous or whatever. Even when they do, the cane works much better because they can feel exactly where the obsticals are, instead of having to figure it out from your sound thing. I don't know what you are proposing to do about snarling dogs. Does this include a gun attachment to shoot them or something?