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I can see use for the beacons in an unfamiliar very large
environment. However, if it is a commonly visited place and you
have the time and help you could just go to places within the
site and record a label and then the app would recognize it from
then on when you visit again. When I tried it it actually got
me within a few feet if I missed it. I am considering using it
for when I am working in the yard. I can drop a tool or bag of
tools or whatever. I can then record the label for that
location and if I need to get back to that bag of tools I can
rotate the phone until I hear "bag of tools" or whatever I
labeled it and then walk to it.
Since I have taken to using my cane in the yard to avoid the
toys and other debris my grandchildren move around getting
within a few feet should allow me to find the item with my cane.
Interesting app indeed.
Dan Beaver
On 7/1/2019 9:17 AM, 'Sandy Tomkins'
via VIPhone wrote:
hi Tali,
Thanks for jumping in here. It seems to me that there are, at least, 2 possible use options for RightHear. 1. in large public spaces, airports, railway stations, hospitals, hotels etc. 2. Domestic use, as expressed here, labelling the post box, a particular tree as a landmark, gates etc. Could you comment on how this latter option might be acquired by some of us? I, for example, live on an acre of land, in rural ireland, and would love to be able to label and find different landmarks outside of my house, would this be possible?i might also want to take these same labels with me on holiday and use them there, with new info recorded on them, would this be something I could easily do? Also, what kind of range will they cover and are they weatherproof?
Sorry if this puts pressure on you, but i am very interested in the answers!!
Sandy.
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On 1 Jul 2019, at 12:56, Tali Sarnetzky <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi everyone.
I have the pleasure of working with these developers on the Right Hear
app and, as said before, it works with beacons within buildings to
provide information. It also shows a list of places that have this
accessibility feature in them, allows you to get directions to the
place or use an Uber-like service to get to an accessible venue, and
call someone for help if you are lost within the venue.
They work ceaselessly on making it a better app and always welcome
suggestions and feedback from users. They also hope to venture out of
Israel and offer accessible venues in other countries. (This is
getting implemented as we speak.)
Cheers,
Tali
On 7/1/19, Richard Turner <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi Sandy,
Thanks for the explanation and the belief that I'm not often confused,
grin.
Sieghard had found information on their web site, which I didn't think to go
investigate. I kind of assumed that it would have been in the app store
description.
But, yes, bluetooth beacons have been around for several years now.
I just wish all the different approaches would come together into one
standard.
Blind Square was one of the earlier apps that I recall having worked out
navigating this way for indoor navigation, though there were others before
them.
Now the American Printing House for the Blind is working on them and these
Right Hear folks, etc.
I know mainly that the United States is way behind other countries in
adopting this kind of technology.
However, some airports have begun using them.
I had read about San Francisco having 500 beacons in one of their terminals
so that a person who is visually impaired with the right app, (no memory of
which app) could even find an outlet to recharge their devices.
I think this would be perfect for places like museums, etc. I know some
malls have them, and maybe one day they will be more wide spread.
Later,
Richard
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On Jul 1, 2019, at 3:24 AM, Andrew J. LaPointe
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Hi all, this Righthear App, how far can you be to locate an object?? I
just came home from the deep woods of New Hampshire and this may have been a
good tool for me to have. How would this differ from a wireless door bell
system? Andy and Shubert
From: 'Sandy Tomkins' via VIPhone<mailto:[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, July 01, 2019 4:55 AM
To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
Subject: Re: the right hear app
Richard, (the often confused? Close brackets never!
I understand that the labels are real and not virtual. if I remember
correctly, as I was researching this about a year ago, but got distracted
by other technologies along the way, The initial idea was to implement
these tags by way of consenting businesses/services et cetera, to make
public spaces more navigable. I asked them if I, as an individual, could
obtain beacons and implement them for myself. they thought this would be
possible, but then I moved onto other things and forgot about it. by the
way, my current and most favourite toy is the Sunu band. this works with
Sonar rather than Bluetooth. but back to RightHear, they are very
approachable, and seek to get new partners to work with, in different
countries. I will take a trawl through my zillions of old emails, never
deleted, and see if I can find some of my old correspondence. but the main
thing is this, in theory at least, this solution is much more accurate and
is much more suitable for micro navigation, such as that which was raised
in the original email, to find trees, postboxes, gates et cetera, Than GPS.
We do seem to be in a particular point in time when many potential solutions
abound, but none are quite perfected. Potential is exciting, but actuality
is much more satisfying!
Sandy.
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On 1 Jul 2019, at 00:28, Richard Turner
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Maybe Sandy will chime in on this. I also downloaded it and there are no
physical tags, so maybe I misunderstood her and the label was a virtual one,
and not a physical one.
Richard, the often confused
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On Jun 30, 2019, at 1:31 PM, Dan
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
I downloaded and installed this app and tried it out. It doesn't seem to
allow stationary labels that the app will track. What it does is allow one
to record a voice and text label for a given GPS location. After doing that
it includes that location in its list of near by locations. Using these
recorded locations I think it would get a person to within a few feet of the
spot from what I can tell after trying it.
It also looks like you have to be at a given location in order to record a
label for that location.
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