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Indian Engineers Modify Kinect To Help the Blind Walk With Confidence

Posted by Soulskill on from the paging-geordi-laforge dept.

New submitter albinobee writes "The Kinect for Xbox 360 isn't only about gaming; it can also be used to help compensate for impaired vision, as a team of Indian engineers is working to prove. A device called viSparsh, still in its nascent stage, is a motion sensing belt that can help alert the blind to obstacles that lie in their path."

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  1. Seems rediculous but... by hellkyng · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The more I hear about Kinect the more it makes it seem like one of the more revolutionary products that Microsoft has ever come out with...

    1. Re:Seems rediculous but... by timeOday · · Score: 4, Interesting

      I don't find that ridiculous. What's ridiculous is that some people thought it was comparable to the wiimote. Kinect won't displace gamepads, but cheap depth-field sensing is too useful to go away.