Bat-Vision

EchoLocation for the Vision impaired

• According to WHO, 285 million people are estimated to be visually impaired worldwide.
• Some talented people can naturally use echolocation to navigate their environment without vision
  • Daniel Kish
  • Ben Underwood

Our solution

• Using the 3D depth sensing of the Tango device, we created a portable and accessible tool providing echolocation to any visually impaired individual
• Pink noise is provided as feedback to indicate the distance of nearby objects
  • This provides un-invasive feedback to the user

DEMO

references

• http://news.sciencemag.org/brain-behavior/2014/11/how-blind-people-use-batlike-sonar
• http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs282/en/
• https://www.ted.com/talks/daniel_kish_how_i_use_sonar_to_navigate_the_world?language=en