A blog dealing with sensory substitution and other esoteric concepts and technologies like speech-recognition and chaos theory
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A quick reader’s note: This is the first post where I have used AI to generate image descriptions. I have tested a 100% automated workflow such that I give a script the images I have taken. The script gets descriptions from an ai model, does the necessary processing and uploads the images to a draft […]
Those of you who have read the Ranger’s Apprentice series by John Flanigan or The King’s Ranger Series by A.C. Cobble will know the importance of staying still and observing movement. The basic idea is that you stay still and watch your surroundings. The thing you are tracking will eventually move which is when you […]
I was walking around in the gated community where I live. Checkout this interesting image I took. It primarily shows different buildings. I was on the upper deck of a swimmingpool area where there was a pond and was surrounded by buildings. This layer’s soundscape is distinct and is potentially handy to know when you […]
Video conferences have proliferated especially after COVID. These days, you are expected to be on camera. This applies even if you are blind and are dealing with sighted people. I do not have a problem with this per se since it represents equality in a way. Ensuring your face is centered is easy enough with […]
There has recently been a plethora of video glasses purporting to help the blind. I will list as many as I know about at the end of this article. It is important to distinguish between those glasses that help the partly sighted. I address this post to the makers of the glasses that are designed […]
I had to receive my cousin at the airport. Her flight was landing at 23:45 IST. I have always been concerned about the reaction of security personnel to my video glasses. This time, I was not going inside the terminal building therefore, decided to wear my Vuzix M400 device and take a chance. I need […]
My father died on 17 August in hospital. I am not going to elaborate on my emotions in this post. I wanted to experience every minute of his last physical journey. He was placed on a stretcher which was probably made of bamboo. I rode with his body in the hearse. ‘ I do have […]
Until fairly recently, image accessibility was a no go unless you could print them in tactile form. If you had the source data, you could generate them by assigning labels which again needed human intervention. In some cases, you could use sonification which is still the case and indeed, it remains the only way to […]
The Chandrayaan- 3’s landing on the moon is old news. Many of us rushed to the television to watch the live feed from ISRO. Like most Indians, it was a proud moment for me given that landing on the south pole of the moon had not been accomplished before. I wanted to watch a clean […]
The start of 2023 has been a rocky one with Sacheta and I being hurled into the low vision world like never before. She has always had low vision thanks to glaucoma, but it has reduced further due to damage to her optic nerve. I am not going to talk about the causes behind the […]