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Re:Project Tango by evanlivingston on Thursday February 20, 2014 @04:38PM (#7273793)
Ocular implants are not the newest technology. The argument I think would be that a phone would be a cheaper alternative/more accessible. But I'm interested if the 'audio cues' that they mention in the video would be any better than the audio cues already present in most environments.
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Re:Project Tango by maxerickson on Thursday February 20, 2014 @05:06PM (#7274012)
I'm only aware of wildly experimental implants providing like 200 dots of light. They aren't by any means a deployed medical technology.

This sort of system could provide audio cues in any environment. That's already a big step up from 'most environments'.

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Re:Project Tango by yaddayadda on Thursday February 20, 2014 @08:01PM (#7274787)
Combined with something like Tactus [1] and the environment can be represented in a tactile 3d map [2].

[1] http://techcrunch.com/2014/01/10/new-tactus-case-concept-bri... [2] http://www.solidterrainmodeling.com/

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Re:Project Tango by balls187 on Thursday February 20, 2014 @05:03PM (#7273987)
Well I'd imagine using computer vision that can identify door handles, elevator buttons (even so far as reading out the numbers on the display).
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