[Njtechdiv] feeling fireworks

[Tracy Carcione]

Cool!  I love fireworks.  It would be neat to be able to feel something about them, as well as enjoy their sounds.
Tracy


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Disney Creates Low Cost Solution For Blind To ‘Feel Fireworks https://coolblindtech.com/disney-creates-low-cost-solution-for-blind-to-feel-fireworks/

by Nelson Régo
  On October 24, 2017

Imagine feeling the dazzling Disney fireworks display — when you cannot see them.

Disney Research is working on a way to share the fireworks experience with the blind and visually-impaired.

The system uses water jets that spray onto a screen, which are synced up with the show in the sky.

Feeling Fireworks is aimed at making fireworks more inclusive for blind and visually impaired users, in a novel experience that can be shared by all. Tactile effects are created using directable water jets that spray onto the rear of a flexible screen, with different nozzles for different firework effects.

It is low-cost and allows for dynamic tactile effects to be rendered with high spatial resolution. A user study demonstrated that the tactile

effects are meaningful analogs to the visual fireworks that they represent, with sighted users able to label the correct correspondence of tactile-to-visual effects by a large margin over chance. Beyond the specific application, the technology represents a novel and cost-ffective approach for making large scalable tactile displays, with the potential for wider use.

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