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A virtual "guide dog" for navigation


February 2, 2016

Low-power chip processes 3-D camera data, could enable wearable device to guide the visually impaired.

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A new device lets visually impaired users carry a mechanical Braille interface developed at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, which conveys information about the distance to the nearest obstacle in the direction the user is moving.

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