New Samsung app will help visually impaired see better using VR

New Samsung app will help visually impaired see better using VR

PanARMENIAN.Net - A product of C-Lab, Samsung’s in-house incubator of sorts that gives employees a canvas to develop new ideas away from their core duties, Relúmĭno was first showcased alongside a handful of other VR / AR projects at Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona earlier this year. The app works in conjunction with the Gear VR, meaning the user plugs their Galaxy smartphone into the headset, with the phone serving as the display and processor.

Relúmĭno effectively brings a new level of clarity to TV, books, artwork, and other real-world objects. The rear camera on the smartphone is the “eyes” of the Gear VR (and thus the person wearing it), and the app can magnify specific points a user wishes to focus on, highlight an image outline, or adjust color contrasts and brightness. Though it could work in an outdoor setting, Samsung cautions against this for safety reasons, VentureBeats says.

Those without peripheral vision, or tunnel vision as it’s often referred, Samsung said that users are able to set the parameters of their blind spots so that Relúmĭno can remap “unseen images to place in visible parts of the eye.”

C-Lab projects normally have a lifespan of around a year before they’re either would down or spun out into a standalone company, but Samsung said that it plans to keep Relúmĭno running as it currently is and develop new related features and products. Indeed, part of this will entail “glasses-like products” that don’t stand out like a sore thumb as VR headsets do in the real-world — so what we’re likely talking about here are wearables that don’t scream “LOOK AT ME.”

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