Hi, I am very interested in beta testing the app. This app sounds interesting. My 8 year old, who is legally blind, is very interested in astronomy.
Donna > >> Hi Everyone, >> >> A quick introduction of myself. >> >> I am a blind software engineer, studying mahematics at UQ in Brisbane, >> Australia. >> >> I am also a passionate sci-fi, space, physics and astronomy fan. I am not >> partially sighted, I am stone cold blind. But I wasn't always like that. I >> still remember summer nights when the sky was clear enough to see the Milky >> Way, the planets through the lens of a telescope, and the first images of >> constellations with their beautiful nebulas came out. >> >> So I decided to write an app that allows me, blind, to find the exact >> position of all these objects in the sky using 2 sensory dimensions, with an >> attention to those who are partially sighted too, wherever I am located on >> earth. if I look for the sun, the phone will orient me to its exact location. >> >> Astreos is the concatenation of Astrius, god of dusk, and Eos, goddess of >> dawn. >> >> As the app is a complete 6 degree of freedom experience to find planets, >> moons, manmade satellites and fragments, comets, asteroids, near earth >> objects, constellations, major stars and find information about them all, I >> thought it appropriate to put both gods of the sky in the same name. >> >> This app uses connections to NASA's APIs, including the Horizons system >> which follows in mission critical precision all objects within the confines >> of the solar system, and updates itself automatically for the more than >> 118000 stars which are visible to the naked eye, 220000 other objects, >> including far away galaxies, their names, categories, how they look, what >> chemical elements or spectrum they have, super novas, and much more, through >> the largest astronomical database, the Vizier catalogue. >> >> The app is still in beta and I and my team are working hard to put more and >> more content to the app, but more importantly, finding new ways to allow >> those of us who are blind to access such information, and really have a >> sense of where all of this is in the sky. >> >> My personal experience for this has been to better understand where a lot of >> stars remain almost static, how some constellations are named and why, when >> they apear in the sky at what time, using my exact location. I spend a lot >> of time reflecting on how to make this magic better using either visual, >> sound, touch or voice. >> >> You can listen to the frequencies coming out of every planet, and get a 3D >> audio experience of major stars in the 89 constellations interpreted as >> chimes, with higher pitches representing newborn stars, and clangy metallic >> chimes those older stars which are cooling down. Novas are thunder rolls >> coursing through the 3D space, and i am thinking of other ways to represent >> those stars and their properties. >> >> >> The official video will be coming out soon, but here's a quick demo audio of >> me playing around with it: >> >>> https://www.dropbox.com/s/yj184tgvzr481p8/Input%20Device%20Recording%2020180812%200638.mp3?dl=0 >> >> >> If you are interested in testing the beta, I invite you to leave me your >> email at the following link: (don't expect it to be completely stable yet >> but it works fine on devices such as iPads and iPhones down to the 6 without >> issues). >> >> https://www.oseyeris.com/contacts >> >> >> Since this is a beta, I am interested in getting your feedback, ideas and >> requests, and I will do my best to put them in the app. >> >> have a great week y'all, >> >> Yuma Antoine Decaux >> OSS (Operating System Stack) >> Oseyeris >> www.oseyeris.com >> Skype: Shainobi1 >> twitter: @triple7 >> linkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/yuma-decaux-2756284/ >> -- >> The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. >> >> If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if >> you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or >> moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. >> >> Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor. 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