Innovative ways to make the blind rejoice worldly pleasures
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Virtual reality for blind

Researchers from the University of Chile with counterparts from Harvard Medical School are taming three audio-based PC games to allow blind people navigate a labyrinth, a subway system and real-world buildings based on audio signals. The game built for teach blind children, works by interpreting information generated by spectral sounds like footsteps and door knocks – this in the virtual essence of real building, so that the user learns to build a spatial cognitive map of that surrounding, a navigate it easily when in the actually building in the real world scenario. Read more.

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