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Disney researchers are working on fireworks you can ‘feel’
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If you’re visually impaired or blind, fireworks can feel a little exclusive to those with full sight.
“Feeling Fireworks” is a new project attempting to make fireworks more inclusive for people with low or limited vision, or who are blind — yep, they’re fireworks you can “feel.”
A new project by Disney Research and ETH Zurich’s Dorothea Reusser, Espen Knoop, Roland Siegwart and Paul Beardsley, it’s a large-scale tactile firework show in which water jets are directed onto a flexible screen.
Users put their hands up against the other side of the screen, a rear-mounted Kinect detects the user, and they will be able to feel “tactile fireworks that are directly analogous to physical fireworks happening in the sky.” Read more…
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