by VR Horizons | Dec 10, 2019 | Accessibility, disability community, News, Technology
HiiDii lets you interact with computers, tablets, and smartphones just by blinking your eyes and moving your head. Whenever you do an extended blink, HiiDii sends micro-electrical signals to the glasses. It detects the action and then translates that signal to a...
by VR Horizons | Nov 26, 2019 | Accessibility, Blog, disability community, living with disabilities, Technology
Over 217 million people in the world are severely visually impaired or blind. This is also a world of continuous technologization, but it is somewhat surprising that high-tech assistance for the visually impaired took so long. Now, there’s a Bluetooth-enabled “smart...
by VR Horizons | Oct 15, 2019 | Accessibility, Blog, Technology
Show and Tell is an Alexa feature designed to help blind and low vision customers identify grocery items. With Show and Tell, blind and low vision customers can hold up an item to the Echo Show camera and ask, “Alexa, what am I holding,” and Alexa helps identify the...
by VR Horizons | Mar 30, 2018 | Blog, Technology
Apple® has proposed 13 new emojis to the Unicode Consortium, the non-profit that reviews emoji requests. Working with the National Association of the Deaf, the Cerebral Palsy Foundation and the American Council of the Blind, Apple’s request includes four categories of...
by VR Horizons | Sep 18, 2014 | living with disabilities, News, Technology
The Neurobridge is a collaborative project developed by Ohio State University, Wexner Medical Center and applied science development non-profit organization Battelle. Through combined efforts, the organizations have been working on a tool that allows the brain signal...
by VR Horizons | Aug 12, 2014 | disability community, living with disabilities, News, Technology
It is not often that the disability world gets a chance to band together and make media history. Right now, across the United States, individuals of all abilities can record their story and experience with the American with Disabilities Act (ADA) or an experience with...
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