Virtual reality can let video game players escape from the real world but ... spatial cognitive map of their surroundings. The goal was to develop audio-based gaming to help blind children develop ...

But he is blind. Wheatcroft uses the GPS fitness-tracking app RunKeeper to gauge the world around him like anybody ... Creating a mental map Using the application to measure the distance and ...

Jim Wilson/The New York Times. For some blind birders, avian soundscapes are a way to map the world around them. Increasing noise pollution is imperiling that navigation. By Alexandra Marvar Aug ...

Magario has spent two and a half years exploring the university and is developing tactile maps to assist blind students such as herself in navigating the campus. Rachel Magario once thought of ...

Previously, experts assumed that even tactile maps would prove useless because blind people have limited ... their ability to get out there in the world and do the things they want to do." ...

Gump has been considered blind his whole life, his ability to see is impacted by light. While he has some usable vision, he uses a cane to help navigate the world and he can't drive. "Growing up ...