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Prototype glasses help the visually impaired avoid obstacles (engadget.com)
2 points by KD12 on May 29, 2012 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments



Similarly, an app for either AR glasses or camera glasses that pair with a phone should be able to help totally blind people navigate by providing an interface like "virtual sonar", where headphones play sounds in which pitches, amplitudes, and doppler effects encode the direction to the destination and the bearing and distance of each nearby obstacle or danger.


If someone else doesn't beat me to it, I'll release this as an app for the POV camera app glasses my startup is making, http://kck.st/redefine-reality




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