When computers have vision but people don’t, why not have the former help the latter? That’s the gist behind the Cognitive Augmented Reality Assistant (CARA), a new HoloLens app developed by the California Institute of Technology.
Assisted by the depth sensing capabilities of the HoloLens, the software uses a computer vision algorithm to scan the environment and identify physical objects. The app then announces the presence of objects to vision-impaired users, using spatial audio to orient users to the relative position of objects in their space.
“Imagine you are in a world where all the… more
Source: Caltech Researchers Use HoloLens to Give Directions & Object Identification to the Visually Impaired
