Teaching blind children navigation via a game

In this new episode of TU Delft TV, Florine Reijndorp interviews Bas Dado and Olivier Hokke about their project that teaches blind children navigation skills via an audio based game. It is often still an issue for blind children to navigate through a space and that makes it scary to go outside for them.

The audio game works with virtual reality glasses and 3D sound simulation to help the children navigating themselves through a space. The virtual reality glasses has head tracking abilities, which means that it monitors how much the children turn their head while playing the game. The character in the game interprets this movement and moves the exact amount. The 3D sound simulation enables kids to distinguish where the sound is coming from and how far it is away.