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Lookout app (self.Blind)
submitted by Simply_Limeade
Has anyone given the Lookout app a go yet? What are your personal experiences if so?
If you are unaware of what it is. It's an assistive seeing app similar to be my eyes but less peopley and more automated.
Personally I find the text reading helpful. And the rest of it amusing. I've apparently come across many diverse animals via the explore mode.
If you are unaware of what it is. It's an assistive seeing app similar to be my eyes but less peopley and more automated.
Personally I find the text reading helpful. And the rest of it amusing. I've apparently come across many diverse animals via the explore mode.
DHamlinMusic 2 points 1y ago
i use it as it's really the best app for that type of stuff on Android, idk why MIcrosoft does not have their apps on it. I keep it installed but do not have reason to use it often.
thebrightworker -1 points 1y ago
i havent no but it sort of reminded me of something sort of related.
the other day i had learned that there's a pair of bluetooth earbuds that have a sensor in to figure out the orientation of the wearers head. part of some colaboration with microsft and their soundscape app. the idea seemed pretty cool at least. audio based maps where it knows where youre heading without having to point the phone around in a certain way.
the other day i had learned that there's a pair of bluetooth earbuds that have a sensor in to figure out the orientation of the wearers head. part of some colaboration with microsft and their soundscape app. the idea seemed pretty cool at least. audio based maps where it knows where youre heading without having to point the phone around in a certain way.
TechnicalPragmatist 1 points 1y ago
What earbuds are these that sounds really interesting.
thebrightworker 1 points 1y ago
$1
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below is wordy description of how they look in case you care:
visually they are like two circular plastic pieces that are side by side, creating a vague figure of eight shape. one of those circular shapes is more like a sphere. the other is more flat but has some thickness still. in the middle of that flatter one is a hole with a metalic trim around it. i think that metalic trim is actually shaped into a dome, with a hole in the middle, because it can sit in your ear and let normal ambient sound pass through that hole into your ear but also sounds from the earbud is generated inside and projected out through to the metalic trim and bounced into the ear. the side with the metal is what sits in the ear canal area and the spherical section rests against the the ear. i think it resembles sports earbuds where they get a little bit of clamping force by pushing against the shape of the ear by the concha.
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below is wordy description of how they look in case you care:
visually they are like two circular plastic pieces that are side by side, creating a vague figure of eight shape. one of those circular shapes is more like a sphere. the other is more flat but has some thickness still. in the middle of that flatter one is a hole with a metalic trim around it. i think that metalic trim is actually shaped into a dome, with a hole in the middle, because it can sit in your ear and let normal ambient sound pass through that hole into your ear but also sounds from the earbud is generated inside and projected out through to the metalic trim and bounced into the ear. the side with the metal is what sits in the ear canal area and the spherical section rests against the the ear. i think it resembles sports earbuds where they get a little bit of clamping force by pushing against the shape of the ear by the concha.
TechnicalPragmatist 1 points 1y ago
Hmm. That’s interesting.
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