Who's not a Star trek fan?
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On 10/31/2020 1:31 AM, Sieghard Weitzel wrote:
Forget it, I want at least Geordi La Forge's visor if not his ocular
prosthetics, a silly iPhone 12 Pro won't cut it.
And for those who are not Star Trek fans, Geordi is one of the main characters
in Start Trek The Next Generation, he was blind from birth, but became Chief
Engineer on the Enterprise under Captain Jean-Luc Picard.
From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of karuna
Chopra
Sent: Friday, October 30, 2020 10:22 PM
To: ViPhone <[email protected]>
Subject: iPhones can now tell blind users where and how far away people are
Hi! This sounds quite promising! What is everybody’s view on its practical use
for us?
The lidar in the iPhone 12 Pro shows up in this infrared video. Each dot
reports back the precise distance of what it reflects off of.
First, it tells the user whether there are people in view at all. If someone is
there, it will then say how far away the closest person is in feet or meters,
updating regularly as they approach or move further away. The sound corresponds
in stereo to the direction the person is in the camera’s view.
Second, it allows the user to set tones corresponding to certain distances. For
example, if they set the distance at six feet, they’ll hear one tone if a
person is more than six feet away, another if they’re inside that range. After
all, not everyone wants a constant feed of exact distances if all they care
about is staying two paces away.
The third feature, perhaps extra useful for folks who have both visual and
hearing impairments, is a haptic pulse that goes faster as a person gets closer.
Last is a visual feature for people who need a little help discerning the world
around them, an arrow that points to the detected person on the screen.
Blindness is a spectrum, after all, and any number of vision problems could
make a person want a bit of help in that regard.
Read the full article here
https://techcrunch.com/2020/10/30/iphones-can-now-tell-blind-users-where-and-how-far-away-people-are/
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