[games_access] Toyota: Mobility for the Blind/VI

[Dan Fischbach]

Hi Brandon,
I'm reminded of this:
http://m.phys.org/news/2013-08-openglass-apps-visually-impaired-video.html
and the way Google Images uses machine learning for tagging. I'm sure
Toyota can mimic the Glass project. They've got the money.

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On Mar 13, 2016 12:35 PM, "Brandon Keith Biggs" <brandonkeithbiggs at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hello,
> I think applications like this are like home robots. They are in the minds
> of people, but the technology is not yet there to make them work as
> advertised. OCR software is just not good enough yet. (There is still a
> person reading my OCRed books for school).
> But it is really nice that they are trying to do something.
> I would really like to see them send orientation and mobility specialists
> to Russia and China where there are millions of blind people who are not
> able to walk out of their rooms because they are blind.
>
> How could someone improve the effectiveness of an app such as Aipoli using
> a game? I'm sure all that is needed is just a *** load of immages in the DB.
> So what kind of game would inspire people to take pictures of stuff and
> label the images?
>
> Perhaps a 3D game where the land is featureless unless people take
> pictures of stuff and label them, then based off their labels the game will
> insert them into a location. It could be a game about anything, but just
> with the idea that people take pictures of stuff and insert them into their
> world.
>
> Another idea is that one could create a contest for people to take as many
> pictures of an object as possible and tag the picture with other words. So
> for example, if the challenge was doors, people would take pictures of
> doggy doors, fairy doors, ant doors...
>
> If one had a DB of like 1000000000 pictures that were tagged, companies
> with apps that identify items like this would really love access!
> Thanks,
>
>
> Brandon Keith Biggs <http://brandonkeithbiggs.com/>
>
> On Sun, Mar 13, 2016 at 9:08 AM, Dan Fischbach <blindwolf8 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Just saw this and I'm thinking indoor navigation for the blind and VI is
>> going to get a hell of a lot easier with this and Project Tango:
>>
>> http://www.toyota.com/usa/story/effect/index.html
>>
>> Of course, game applications are always possible. :-)
>>
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