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Leveling Up Accessible Video Game Features: How New Technology is Making Gaming More Immersive and Inclusive for People with Vision Loss
For decades, people with vision loss had limited options when it came to accessing video games. Aside from screen magnification and text-to-voice tools, gamers who are blind or visually impaired didn’t have many ways to play their favorite titles. But in recent years, the same cutting-edge technology used to create games has been used to also make them more accessible for people with vision impairment.
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A Celebration of Sound and Song: Music Tech Shines the Spotlight on Musicians with Vision Loss
Marcus Roberts, Stevie Wonder, Ray Charles, and even Louis Braille (who invented the Braille Music Notation system still used today) prove that musicians who are blind or visually impaired have made profound impacts on our musical landscape.
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Ambient Computing and Voice Assistants: From Your Home to the Stars
David Frerichs, Principal Engineer, Alexa Experience at Amazon on the aging and accessibility team, shares his design philosophy for making voice assistants more inclusive, and the preferred mode of engagement for every user.
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New Approaches in Access: Smart Tools for Indoor Navigation and Information Transfer
This podcast is about big ideas on how technology is making life better for people with vision loss.
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AI Revolutionizes Vision Tech, Ophthalmology, and Medicine as We Know It
In 1997, Gary Kasparov lost an epic chess rematch to IBM’s supercomputer Deep Blue, but since then, artificial intelligence has become humanity’s life-saving collaborator. This episode explores how AI will revolutionize vision technology and, beyond that, all of medicine.
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Balancing Innovation and Ethics: Who is Protecting the Early Adopters?
Innovations in implant technology are advancing at lightning speed, profoundly impacting the lives of people who are blind or visually impaired. In ON TECH AND VISION, we’ve profiled some amazing new implant technologies that have the potential to restore people’s sight. But in this episode we pump the breaks — because we need to address a critical part of the innovation process: the ethical frameworks that protect participants in early clinical trials.
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Tools for Success: Tech Convergence and Co-Designed Products Close Gaps for Children Who are Blind
People who are blind or visually impaired know all too well the challenges of living in a sighted world. But today, the capabilities of computer vision and other tech are converging with the needs of people who are blind and low vision and may help level the playing field for young people with all different sensory abilities.
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Innovations in Intraocular Pressure and Closed Loop Drug Delivery Systems
Max Ostermeier, CEO and Founder of Implandata Ophthalmic Products out of Hannover Germany, has reimagined the remote management and care of patients with glaucoma. Max and his team developed the EyeMate system, a microscopic implantable device and micro sensor that measures intraocular pressure throughout the day.
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Restoring Vision: Code Breaking and Optogenetics
Until recently, no one knew the code the retina used to communicate with the brain to create sight. Our guest Dr. Sheila Nirenberg, a neuroscientist at Weill Cornell, and Principal and Founder of Bionic Sight has — using input-output mapping — cracked the retina’s neural code, enabling her to recreate the electric signals to the brain that could restore sight in people with retinal degeneration.
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Seeing with Sound: Using Audio to Activate the Brain’s Visual Cortex
In this episode, we’ll explore how, through sensory substitution, audio feedback can, in some cases, stimulate a user’s visual cortex, allowing a user to — without sight — achieve something close to visual perception.
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