{"id":13945,"date":"2020-12-08T07:25:50","date_gmt":"2020-12-08T15:25:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=13945"},"modified":"2020-12-09T11:00:26","modified_gmt":"2020-12-09T19:00:26","slug":"google-ml-helps-blind-runners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/08\/google-ml-helps-blind-runners\/","title":{"rendered":"Google&#8217;s wearable ML helps blind runners"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Call it AI, ML, FM (F&#8217;ing Magic), whatever: tech like this warms the heart and can free body &amp; soul. Google&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.google\/outreach-initiatives\/accessibility\/project-guideline\/\">Project Guideline<\/a> helps people with impaired vision navigate the world on their own, independently &amp; at speed. Runner &amp; CEO Thomas Panek, who is blind, writes, <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>In the fall of 2019, I asked that question to a group of designers and technologists at a Google hackathon. I wasn\u2019t anticipating much more than an interesting conversation, but by the end of the day they\u2019d built a rough demo [&#8230;].<\/p><p>I\u2019d wear a phone on a waistband, and bone-conducting headphones. The phone\u2019s camera would look for a physical guideline on the ground and send audio signals depending on my position. If I drifted to the left of the line, the sound would get louder and more dissonant in my left ear. If I drifted to the right, the same thing would happen, but in my right ear. Within a few months, we were ready to test it on an indoor oval track. [&#8230;] It was the first unguided mile I had run in decades.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Check out the journey. (Side note: how great is &#8220;Blaze&#8221; as a name for a speedy canine running companion? &#x263a;&#xfe0f;)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Project Guideline: Can Technology Help A Blind Runner Navigate?\" width=\"604\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/C_h4HnKVptk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Call it AI, ML, FM (F&#8217;ing Magic), whatever: tech like this warms the heart and can free body &amp; soul. Google&#8217;s Project Guideline helps people with impaired vision navigate the world on their own, independently &amp; at speed. Runner &amp; CEO Thomas Panek, who is blind, writes, In the fall of 2019, I asked that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13945"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13945"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13954,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13945\/revisions\/13954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}