Navigation for the Blind is not easy. We developed a wearable technology that maps the space around a user. to 64 vibration motors on their body, to increase their fidelity of the world around them. A company I founded with two friends I met at the Canada Wide Science Fair.
The most prominent method of general navigation for the blind and visually impaired community (BVI) is the white cane. While users can become proficient, using other stimuli combined with this cane, effectively the BVI community is restricted to one data about one point in space at any instance in time. The question then is, can there be a way to increase the amount of information they receive about the world around them without using vision?
We first need a system that can record in real-time the important environmental around the user. This will be a system that the user wears.
We then need to combine the information we record and create an accurate environment.
Lastly, we need to communicate all of this environmental data to the user, with a higher bandwidth then the white cane.
The most prominent method of general navigation for the blind and visually impaired community (BVI) is the white cane. While users can become proficient, using other stimuli combined with this cane, effectively the BVI community is restricted to one data about one point in space at any instance in time. The question then is, can there be a way to increase the amount of information they receive about the world around them without using vision?
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