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Google has announced an indoor positioning technology called a Visual Positioning System or VPS (techcrunch.com)
submitted by Lust4Me
fastfinge 8 points 6y ago
It's Google. So, in short, no systematic commitment to accessibility. This will happen in a couple buildings, and it'll be really cool. Then Google will shelve it and move on to other projects, just as they've done in the past. I just hope they open source the tech, so other folks can run with it.
Edit: no audio description, or clear description, of what the demo even does in the Google presentation. Sort of proves my point; they're willing to use the blind for PR, but don't actually have an organization wide commitment to access. Compare to Apple, that does audio describe most demo/marketing videos.
Edit: no audio description, or clear description, of what the demo even does in the Google presentation. Sort of proves my point; they're willing to use the blind for PR, but don't actually have an organization wide commitment to access. Compare to Apple, that does audio describe most demo/marketing videos.
snow671 2 points 6y ago
Apparently the video is just a montage of a girl practicing dodge ball in her back yard with a game on the VPS and then playing actual dodge ball in school.
It just sounds like it's Google's version of Oculus Rift, but with the option for AR for games similar to Pokemon Go. Neither my cousin nor myself could find a link to the demo inside Lowe's.
It just sounds like it's Google's version of Oculus Rift, but with the option for AR for games similar to Pokemon Go. Neither my cousin nor myself could find a link to the demo inside Lowe's.
Lust4Me [OP] 1 points 6y ago
From a different article:
>In a demo that Bavor said was "working today," he showed the phone directing a user through a crowded Lowe's hardware store to the precise location of a desired screwdriver. Bavor also asked the audience to "Imagine what this technology could mean to people with impaired vision."
What do you think?
source: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2017/05/google-announces-untethered-fully-tracked-standalone-vr-headsets/
>In a demo that Bavor said was "working today," he showed the phone directing a user through a crowded Lowe's hardware store to the precise location of a desired screwdriver. Bavor also asked the audience to "Imagine what this technology could mean to people with impaired vision."
What do you think?
source: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2017/05/google-announces-untethered-fully-tracked-standalone-vr-headsets/
snow671 1 points 6y ago
What does the demo video show? This would be pretty nice if some kind of built in OCR read the aisle markers to you to get you headed in the right direction.
Goatburgler 2 points 6y ago
$1. The demo they give with Lowe's has two parts. At first they're walking around the store and orange dots are appearing on what it's identifying shelves and poles and walls to be, and it shows a computer generated overhead view that shows you that they are mapping out the layout of the store. Then they show the app guiding someone through the store by taking the camera feed of the environment and adding arrows to guide them to a specific shelf.
snow671 1 points 6y ago
Thanks! It sounds like a better solution than an agent guiding someone through Google glass, but who really knows what is going to become of this.
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