Kinect Haptic Belt Helps the Blind to Navigate Obstacles

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Kinect Haptic Belt Helps the Blind to Navigate Obstacles

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The viSparsh belt developed by Young India Fellows Rolly Seth, Jatin Sharma and Tushar Chugh in New Delhi with guidance by Rahul Mangharam of the University of Pennsylvania, is a computer vision assisted haptic feedback system that uses a Microsoft Kinect to detect objects near the wearer and notifies them through an array of vibration motors across the belt. [via /.]

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