While I write here mostly about technology, my interest has always been in the social impacts of all this communication technology. Here on the Today show was a fascinating story of someone who is blind using VoIP (and specifically Skype) to allow him to “see” courtesy of a remote person seeing his view and telling him what is there.
Fascinating…
P.S. Thanks to Chaim Haas for passing this along…
One response to “Inspiring video of Skype used for augmented vision”
Interesting to read this however I cannot imagine the quality of the stream would be that good & depending on the broadcast resolution there is going to be a delay of up to 3 seconds through encoding etc – which kind of makes this news feed a bit unbelievable especially as the video is showing the blind person riding a bike – taking the delay in mind + the time for the person at the other end the stream to respond – I think its early days for this technology but it will improve as processor/internet speeds increase. We specialise in building high definition business video streams. You can see a test stream during our working hours by clicking on the camera at the top of our webpage – http://www.callquality.co.uk/?page=business_video_streaming.
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