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NReal Light Augmented Reality Glasses.
I recently read an article on these new low-profile 1080p glasses and had an idea that might be suitable for their platform. I have a Amateur Radio Operator friend that lives near by that is nearly blind. He has a hard time locating things around his house when he puts them down in a hurry or busy doing something else. Finding where he left something is a painstaking matter of groping around until he can "feel" whatever it is that's missing.
But I think these glasses might offer a great solution for him.
For vision impaired people. There are a class of people that have partial vision - just enough that they can get around in a lighted environment. However locating objects is extremely difficult. By tagging desired objects (cell phone, keys, and so on) with a reflective tape (sticker) these glasses would be ideal to give logical/coarse left-right-up-down indicators for a general idea on where the object may be laying around the house. The tape would respond to a high intensity infrared emitter with sensors to narrow down the direction the reflection is coming from. The user would just have macro concepts due to their handicap, but it would be a visual version of marco-polo or hot-cold searching. This would help them narrow down a objects location to first the room, then a surface, floor, etc. It is reasonable that different shaped stickers or stickers with different spectrum properties could further identify objects to their particular type.
nreal augmented reality glasses
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These are the first AR glasses I have seen that actually have promise for field developement and practical applications for purposes other than pure entertainment or game - etc. I can image these for tracking things in most of my imaginations. Could be anything. One thought is a way to control robotic movement. It would an ideal amendment to joystick or auto movement. Just look where you want the robot to travel, and confirm. But I think my first application would be for vision impaired people.
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Note - These are still in development and the company that has made them are looking for developers at this time.
I will fill out this section as time goes on - in the event I can get a developer kit for the glasses.
Until then I will check out some tech on bouncing light off colored/reflective stickers to see what kind of results I might be able to get in the short term. I know of astartup a few years back that had some great success with department of transportation technology for reflective tape.
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CODE WHEN AVAILABLE:
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