MobiHealth News April 25, 2024
The ODU-led team will assess the commercial viability and feasibility of digital environments for people who are visually impaired.
Old Dominion University, Washington-based HaptX and Georgia Institute of Technology won a grant to further virtual reality development for the visually impaired using glove-based streaming of braille characters and digital images.
The project will explore how visually impaired people experience virtual environments by using HaptX gloves to interact with streaming digital images and objects.
HaptX G1 glove technology simulates touch sensation with microfluidic actuation for use in VR and robotics. The company’s haptic gloves fit like conventional work gloves and can be used in a variety of settings.
The goal of the project is to create a virtual Braille...
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