The first app that teaches the blind to visualize with sound

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Brian Bushway

The idea of blindness is worse than the reality - you just do not understand our full capacity of what our senses can do.

Humans can see with sound - sound reflects off of objects and the human brain can image what they are, where they are. So, few people can do this. And, so, we have taken the principles of echolocation and made it accessible to all.

Nick Gomberg

As someone who was born without eyes, I wanted to design an app that could allow blind people to visualize the world.

Eyedar is a free app that digitizes the principles of echolocation. It uses LiDAR, a #D mapping technology available on the latest smartphones. This technology creates an image of a person’s environment and then translates them into a 3D soundscape of their surroundings. As you move close to an object, changes in pitch and volume communicate size, shape, distance, and direction.

Eyedar users start with basic object recognition and through sequential training, progress through more complex tasks- training the brain and enhancing visualization abilities, giving them the skills they need to navigate the world with confidence and precision.

Brandon Shin

Being blind, people don’t expect anything out of you. They’ll set the bar low, they won’t expect you to go any higher than that. I’ll make my own expectations. I want to prove to myself and the world that there isn’t anything that I can’t do.

Echolocation Echolocation

Eyedar is based on the principles of echolocation.

In the absence of sight, the brain can use the ears to map our surroundings, an ability called echolocation.

Echolocation can enhance spatial awareness in people who are blind and lead to greater independence.

Only 1% of people who are blind can actively echolocate

Eyedar is here to make echolocation accessible to the blind community

IT’S A FREE APP THAT DIGITIZES THE PRINCIPLES OF ECHOLOCATION, MAKING IT A LEARNABLE SKILL FOR THOSE WHO ARE BLIND.

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Eyedar uses LiDAR 3D mapping technology built into the latest iPhones to scan a user’s surroundings.

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Eyedar translates these scans into soundscapes that convey the size shape, distance, and direction of objects.

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Echolocation between person with the eyedar app and a chair Echolocation between person with the eyedar app and a chair

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