KNOWWARE--VIRTUAL REALITY MAPS FOR BLIND PEOPLE

知识——盲人虚拟现实地图

• 批准号: 2165336
• 负责人: MYRON W KRUEGER
• 金额: $ 10万
• 依托单位: ARTIFICIAL REALITY CORPORATION
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 1995
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1995-05-01 至 1996-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/2165336
• 关键词: KNOWWARE; VIRTUAL; REALITY; MAPS; BLIND

The purpose of this project is to develop an unencumbering means for the blind to access computer-based two dimensional information that offers them the advantages that electronic media provide to the sighted. The user's hands will rest on a physical desktop. The image of their hands will be picked up by a video camera and superimposed on a virtual desktop. Using the VIDEODESK technology invented by Dr. Myron Krueger for virtual reality applications which has been under development for the last quarter of a century, the computer will know instantaneously where the user's fingers are pointing in the virtual image. It can then display the feature being touched with sound. It can speak its name or play back a sound code that illustrates the type of feature being touched. Because the representation is completely electronic, blind computer users will be able to pan, zoom, and control the level of detail for the first time. The result is a highly dynamic interactive system that can provide the blind community with a new way to access spatial information. The same technology will have significant appeal for the sighted as well. Phase 1 will focus on map-based information. PROPOSED COMMERCIAL APPLICATION: The VIDEODESK will be sold to the blind community, but has tremendous potential to be used by the sighted in everyday office applications.

该项目的目的是为 盲目访问基于计算机的二维信息 他们将电子媒体提供给视力的优势。 用户的手将放在物理桌面上。他们的手的形象 将由摄像机捡起并叠加在虚拟桌面上。 使用Myron Krueger博士发明的Videodesk Technology虚拟 上一季度正在开发的现实应用 一个世纪的计算机将立即知道用户的位置 手指指向虚拟图像。然后可以显示功能 被声音感动。它可以说出名称或播放声音代码 这说明了要触摸的功能的类型。 因为表示形式是完全电子的，所以盲目的计算机用户 将能够平移，缩放和控制第一个的细节级别 时间。结果是一个高度动态的交互式系统，可以提供 盲人社区具有新的访问空间信息的方式。相同 技术也将对视力有很大的吸引力。 第1阶段将重点关注基于地图的信息。 拟议的商业应用：Videodesk将出售给盲人 社区，但有巨大的潜力被视线使用 日常办公申请。