Show HN: Touch-based Virtual Reality for the blind – Color Me Black
1–3 of 3 posts
Re: Show HN: Touch-based Virtual Reality for the blind – Color Me Black
#2We built a wearable device that can help people sense a virtual object (like a square or a map of India or a cube or an entire solar system), through a small vibrating motor on their hand by moving their hand around in the air.
This would be particularly helpful for the blind and the visually impaired as it can help them better visualize shapes, learn geography and access images like they never could before.
And I'm very proud to tell you that our team at Color Me Black (http://www.colormeblack.co.in/) won the Education themed Startup Weekend Hyderabad, India last night!
Re: Show HN: Touch-based Virtual Reality for the blind – Color Me Black
#3We built a wearable device that can help people sense a virtual object (like a square or a map of India or a cube or an entire solar system), through a small vibrating motor on their hand by moving their hand around in the air. This would be particularly helpful for the blind and the visually impaired as it can help them better visualize shapes, learn geography and access images like they never could before. And I'm…
To elaborate further, the prototype is a glove that people can wear, and when they move their hand around, an arduino onboard detects that and turns on a small vibrator-motor on the glove when their hand is at a position where an imaginary object is supposed to be, allowing them to get an understanding of what the object might be shaped like.
For example if we have the computer simulate the shape of a square, the glove-wearer would feel a vibration on their hand as they move it along it's imagined boundaries, allowing them to get a sense of it's shape.
Blind students and blind people in general have a tough time visualizing, understanding and using images, but with the help of this smart-glove, we can give them a sense of what things in the image might be shaped like, enabling them to better use that information.