The Microsoft Soundscape app enables anyone to hear the physical world around them. It's a powerful tool that reimagines how technology can enhance independence and mobility, and we built it with the help of Guide Dogs UK and San Francisco Lighthouse for the blind, organizations that empower the blind and people with low vision with technology, training and more. Throughout National Disability Employment Awareness Month, I have shared examples of how advances in technology can make a difference in the lives of the more than 1 billion people with disabilities around the world, and in this video, Amos Miller shows me how he uses the app to navigate our campus in Redmond. You can learn more about Soundscape here: https://aka.ms/soundscape
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Brilliant work Amos and team. I still remember some of the early trials around TVP. Great to see Trevor looking so well!
Amazing work.
Wao this is so amazing. I love the idea great.
I really hope Microsoft Soundscape will be available to add to my Smartwatch as an app so I can use it for watersports - surfing, sailing and kayaking and one day even scuba diving😁
Very Inclusive Idea. Few cents of curiosity as I am genuinely a big fan of Brand MS. I understand that the biggest strength of a visually challenged human is his/her rest of the senses. which includes hearing ability to a bigger extent while navigating. Now with an overlay of technology guiding the natural senses of a blind person, Will it not cause a possible aberration to his/her ability to perceive live natural sounds? Will it have an impact on neural processing of sound and other senses while person is on this app. It could simulate an effect similar to a constant crying of a baby while we are in middle of a serious meeting and still manage the meeting in an efficient manner. I may be thinking overly loud but will that be an end-experience? I wish not and I hope its not. Wishing a successful release of this innovative tech on mobile and by all means this will enable a deeper research for sure in future.
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5yThis is great example of giving back to the society 👍