Near future
Contact us
  • Home
  • Tech
  • Health
  • Environment
  • Architecture
  • energia
  • Transportation
  • Spazio
  • AI
  • concepts
  • Gadgets
  • Italy Next
  • H+
July 2 2022

Coronavirus / Russia-Ukraine

Near future

News to understand, anticipate, improve the future.

No Result
View All Result

News to understand, anticipate, improve the future.

Read in:  Chinese (Simplified)EnglishFrenchGermanItalianJapanesePortugueseRussianSpanish

The 3D touch display for the blind makes the shapes 'feel'

A Stanford team works on a way to show blind people 3D information such as shapes and objects thanks to a special touch display.

Gianluca Ricciodi Gianluca Riccio
in Technology
Share201Pin10Tweet29SendShare8ShareShare6
touch display
November 1, 2019
⚪ Reads in 3 minutes
A A

The use of a computer with specific software, or in accessible mode, is a starting point for blind people who want to get informed and communicate. However, there are things that cannot yet be transmitted, such as the image of three-dimensional objects.

A team from Stanford University works on a way to show blind people 3D information, such as three-dimensional figures from a CAD or modeling program. A touch monitor, yes sir. The studies led to the creation of a 3D tactile display prototype made up of tactile "pixels" (Taxel?) That rise or fall according to the shape to be represented.

The research project is a collaboration between the head of the Stanford Scientific Laboratory Sean Follmer and students Alexa Siu e Joshua Honey. The touch screen is intended to develop common spaces in which blind people can widen their working autonomy by also carrying out tasks that would have required viewing.

touch display
Here is the prototype of the touch display, vaguely resembling a pipe organ

The touch display

The device is a rectangle with 12 rows of 24 small rounded columns that can move up and down with great precision (from a few millimeters to a few centimeters) taking the form of three-dimensional objects. The movements of the system are fast enough to provide real-time representations of the shapes and their variations.

Maybe you are also interested

Dot Pad, the tablet that translates the web into Braille with AI

Scientists invent the fabric that turns clothes into displays

Super Bowl 2022, a 1000-ton Infinity Screen suspended on the lawn

Biped: the autonomous driving technology applied to the blind

“The project will allow blind people to be operators of design software, and not just users. They can create their 3D objects, and maybe use a printer to make them, " says Miele, co-author of the project and blind person, in a Stanford release.

Here it is while showing the functions of the device:

3D or 2.5D display?

Siu calls the capacitive display "2.5D," because obviously it does not allow to represent an object "in midair", totally detached from the ground. Part of the space is taken up by the display base, after all. Yet, despite careful observation, the display represents an object in an excellent way and provides the blind with all the necessary information on its shape.

Little steps

The "problem" of the display for Blind at this point it is the resolution, which must be absolutely improved to offer an increasingly precise perception. Other research teams around the world are working on similar solutions, and it seems that this field is proceeding more slowly than others, probably for the smaller "catchment area".

The touch display needs more work before it can be marketed. The dimensions of the tactile pixels must be reduced and the execution speed increased.

The group, however, is very determined and says he is convinced that the improvements will be made at a fairly high speed. Follow the various developments, if you like, on the official website of the Stanford laboratory , or wait for the updates that I will give you from time to time.

tags: 3dblind Blind
Previous post

The flexible display is a second skin

Next Post

Obtained the most detailed human brain scan ever

COLLABORATE

To submit articles, disclose the results of a research or scientific discoveries write to the editorial staff

    archive

    Have a look here:

    Mojo Vision unveils the prototype of contact lenses with augmented reality
    Technology

    Mojo Vision unveils the prototype of contact lenses with augmented reality

    Read information, watch a movie, get directions directly in the eyes. Even if they are closed. Smart contact lenses, bright future.

    Read More
    cell phones revolution

    Mobile phones, the new look of the Revolution

    A Google Maps map of the human body is coming

    A Google Maps map of the human body is coming

    provide

    The Pentagon tests an AI capable of predicting events "days in advance"

    The army of DIY 3D printed weapons is growing

    The army of DIY 3D printed weapons is growing

    The daily tomorrow

    Futuroprossimo.it provides news on the future of technology, science and innovation: if there is something that is about to arrive, here it has already arrived. FuturoProssimo is part of the network ForwardTo, studies and skills for future scenarios.

    Subscribe to our newsletter

    Environment
    Architecture
    Artificial intelligence
    Gadgets
    concepts
    Design

    Staff
    Archives
    Advertising
    Privacy Policy

    Medicine
    Spazio
    Robotica
    Work
    Transportation
    energia

    To contact the FuturoProssimo editorial team, write to [email protected]

    Chinese Version
    Édition Française
    Deutsche Ausgabe
    Japanese version
    English Edition
    Edição Portuguesa
    Русское издание
    Spanish edition

    This work is distributed under license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International.
    © 2021 Futuroprossimo

    No Result
    View All Result
    • Home
    • Tech
    • Health
    • Environment
    • Architecture
    • energia
    • Transportation
    • Spazio
    • AI
    • concepts
    • Gadgets
    • Italy Next
    • H+