Nico Gentry, a 25-year-old manufacturing engineer from Orlando, Florida, is working in the autonomous car industry, where “they’re building the eyes for cars,” as he put it. He works at a LiDAR company called Luminar. LiDAR stands for Light Detection and Ranging; it’s a sensor technology that uses light to measure distance and detect objects, and it’s often called the “eyes” of self-driving cars.
This Talking Menu Will Help Blind and Visually Impaired Customers
Pubco Fuller’s has introduced a talking menu service to improve the experience of blind, visually impaired or dyslexic customers who want to order food.
Blind and Visually Impaired Football Fans Can Now Watch Football with ‘Footbraille’
In commemoration of Malaysia’s 62nd National Day, Digi Telecommunications has launched ‘Footbraille,’ an idea that aims to help the blind and visually impaired engage more deeply with football.
These Reality Smart Glasses Offer an Amazing 118” Screen
A new pair of mixed reality smart glasses has launched via Kickstarter in the form of GLOW which can offer a personal cinema or gaming experience for someone who is low vision or partially sighted and that can be carried with you thanks to its lightweight portable design. Watch the demonstration video below to learn more about the MAD Gaze GLOW smart glasses which offer a field of vision up to 53° and a 118 inch screen from a pair of glasses that weighs just 75grams.
How Alexa assistant Can Help You Find Your Keys in the House
As blind and visually impaired people, we’ve all lost something in the house at one point or another.
University of Alberta Students Create Brain-Controlled Video Game
A group of University of Alberta students has created a video game where players use their brainwaves as the controller, opening it up to players who aren’t able to use traditional gaming systems.
Accessibility Unlocked Offers Support to Game Developers with Disabilities
A new initiative in Australia and New Zealand has launched to better support developers with disabilities in the local games industry.
Lego Now Has Instructions for Blind and Visually Impaired Builders
All Lego sets come with visual instructions that indicate where builders should place each piece. But guidance wasn’t accessible for the blind, until now.
These Augmented Reality Glasses Can Improve Eyesight by Up to 70% for People With retinitis pigmentosa
Nearly one in 30 Americans over the age of 40 experience low vision — significant visual impairment that can’t be corrected with glasses, contact lenses, medication or surgery.
Researchers Create ‘Artificial Eye that Can Outperform Human Eyes
This past decade has been one of significant technological advancement, across several different industries. We’ve seen the rise of the modern smartphone (and tablets alongside it), a new generation of gaming consoles, medical AI innovations, and increasingly efficient and powerful computer hardware. Now, we’re seeing another major leap forward in the optical lens industry, thanks to a breakthrough discovered by a team of Harvard SEAS researchers.
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