I forwarded the original post re Astrios to a star-struck friend of mine, as I did not knowif he was on this list. I think that, perhaps, he is not. I have just received a reply from him saying that it was the coolest thing ever, and he loaded it without any problems.
-------------------------------------------------- From: "Dave Allen" <dave.blindsi...@gmail.com> Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2018 2:52 PM To: "'Jewel'" <jewelbla...@kinect.co.nz> Subject: RE: A reply from the developerFw: Introducing Astreos: universal access to the cosmos Hi! I got it going today without any issue. It's the coolest thing I've found since the money reader. It is necessary to pay attention to grab any updates that come out, because test versions have a shorter life than hopefully we do, *lol* Each beta version only lives for 90 days max, but it's fun, and the price can't be beaten with a stick! Cheers, Dave -----Original Message----- From: Jewel [mailto:jewelbla...@kinect.co.nz] Sent: Wednesday, 15 August 2018 1:30 p.m. To: Dave Allen Subject: A reply from the developerFw: Introducing Astreos: universal access to the cosmos -------------------------------------------------- From: "Yuma Decius" <jamy...@gmail.com> Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2018 4:05 AM To: <viphone@googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: Introducing Astreos: universal access to the cosmos Hi harry, Sorry for the experience you had when it first crashed. We are working now to fix this ASAP. Yes, you start by hearing one of NASA's launch sequences and you are in a spaceship looking at the stars. I've had another comment about the volume not being loud enough. It was so that you can experience the app on the headphones, but speaker volume is not loud enough. This will be fixed within the next coming days with a volume slider. For now though, if you put your headhones on, you will hear everything clearly. Move the phone around and you will hear all the constellations exactly where they are meant to be in the sky. For the controls, they are actually mentioned in the test flight app along with bug fixes and features, but I will list the controls here: two finger swipe Up for planets left for manmade satellites right for moons down for constellations When you selected an object, you will feel a tic from the phone. The faster the tick, the closer you are from the object you are looking for, as you move and orient the phone around in a spherical space. Once you hear Leah anouncing the name of the object, do a pinch out gesture to focus on the object. Pinch in to zoom back out to the space ship. If you have a bit of sight left, when zoomed in, you can orbit around the object by dragging your finger around. As I mentioned in the audio demo, We haven't exposed the information for all the objects yet, as I am working on making the voice completely filtered with echo and reverb. Finally, another feature is using your voice. Double tap on the screen, and Leah will say "yes", at which point you can say things like "where's Mars" or "search for Neptune" etc. Please let me know if you have issues and I'll get back to you ASAP. > On 15 Aug 2018, at 12:33 am, 'Harry Bell' via VIPhone > <viphone@googlegroups.com> wrote: > > > I have downloaded the beta on my iPhone 7 plus running iOS 11.4.1 and on my > 2018 ipad running ios > 12 latest beta. The app opened on both devices, i gave it permissions to > access location and > microphone. The app then crashed back to home screen on both devices. > When i reopened the app, > there was a ten second pause and then i heard some Cape Canaveral-like > commentary which was almost > inaudible and a slightly louder voice naming constellations as i moved my > device. Even on full > volume, itwas a struggle to hear much. No buttons or tabs were detected by > voiceover, so i had no > instructions about what to do and i have no idea whati can do via the > microphone (as the app asked > to use my device microphone for voice commands, i assume tgere must be some). > How do i get started? > Thanks > Harry in UK > >> On 14 Aug 2018, at 11:27, Yuma Decaux <jamy...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Hi Rob, >> >> Just wanted to make sure you got the invite? It seems so far with our tests, >> the app has some >> issues with iphone 5s and 6 as the CPU architecture is older on these >> devices. Hopefully you have >> something more recent. >> >> Have a great day >> >> >>> On 13 Aug 2018, at 5:40 am, 'RobH.' via VIPhone <viphone@googlegroups.com> >>> wrote: >>> >>> OOoo!... wonderful, so very wonderful, if it can really do all that. I >>> kinda borrowed a >>> particularly good 1st year degree level >>> course notes in astro-physics years ago and still re-read it. Never saw >>> well enough to see >>> stars, just sun and moon. Not even that >>> now mind. >>> >>> But yes, this would be fascinating to try, will deal with that in a bit. >>> >>> What version of iOws will it work down to? I am Not a slavish follower of >>> versions while the >>> one I have works with what I have. >>> There's so many stories of new downloads crippling perfectly good old ones. >>> >>> Many thanks and all the best with it, BobH. >>> >>> >>> ----- Original Message ----- >>> From: "Yuma Decaux" <jamy...@gmail.com> >>> To: <macvisionar...@googlegroups.com> >>> Cc: <viphone@googlegroups.com> >>> Sent: Sunday, August 12, 2018 8:15 PM >>> Subject: Introducing Astreos: universal access to the cosmos >>> >>> >>> 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 >>>> <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 <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 <http://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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