A ‘Fun-Bloody-Tastic’ Way for the Blind to Play Soccer
- Posted on November 11, 2011 at 12:30am by
Liz Klimas
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Before Daniel lost his eyesight, he used to play football (soccer) all the time. Naturally, this ability became impossible when his vision was lost, but Pepsi has created a program that allows the blind to “see with sound” and play the sport again.
Watch how the technology works, using sound and tracking devices to help these men sense others around them and position of the ball and goal:
Here the players explain why they wanted to participate in this experiment – one of whom says it is to avenge his childhood football coach who thought those who were visually impaired shouldn’t play — and how they felt about it after testing.
To allow the players to sense all the parts of the game, the technology uses 3D sound, which is based on different angles depending on where the sound is around the players head. This gives the player a sense of how far away something is and in which direction.
Watch the technologist explain more about how “see through hearing” works:
[H/T Business Insider]
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Chi-Fawn
Posted on November 11, 2011 at 2:17pmOh neat! Beep ball comes to Soccer. It’s about time that happened. It’s already been done forever with Baseball and Basketball
Report Post »Sicialian Eyeball
Posted on November 11, 2011 at 8:16amBlind soccer.. In the words of Dirty Harry Callahan,”A man’s got to know his limitations”. Catching a ball off the face wont be too much fun. For the spectators- Hilarious
Report Post »Sugabee
Posted on November 11, 2011 at 8:23amIf you’re attempting to spell “Sicilian” in your user name, it’s wrong. As to the rest of your post – whatever, dude.
Report Post »ozchambers
Posted on November 11, 2011 at 9:38amBlind soccer….that DOES sound bloody and fun.
Report Post »Eleutheria
Posted on November 11, 2011 at 12:57amAll hail the undeniable POWER of capitalism!!!
Report Post »MR_ANDERSON
Posted on November 11, 2011 at 7:26amThis is just another reason why Pepsi > Coke.
Another reason…they use Red, White, & Blue representing freedom on their cans, while Coke uses Red for communism and sometimes polar bears.
Report Post »One Man Progressive Wrecking Crew
Posted on November 11, 2011 at 12:46amVery interesting and good to see things like this being done with this advanced tech. Oh but I guess OWS ‘ers will be enraged that big business and sickening capitalists came up with the dough which I’m sure was and is exorbitant for the ‘experiment’ right?
Every second their entire argument and premise is revealed as more and more disconnected from reality. I‘m sure they’d rather Big government do it, which means You and Me which we already do more than they with our willing and voluntary donations throughout the years.
Report Post »One Man Progressive Wrecking Crew
Posted on November 11, 2011 at 12:48am“Conservatives more Charitable than Liberal Scrooges” http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=40857
Report Post »Eleutheria
Posted on November 11, 2011 at 12:58amAmen my progressive eviscerating brother ;)
Report Post »loriann12
Posted on November 11, 2011 at 6:53amI’m sure progressives believe that this could have happened through government intervention. I remember in the 80′s…I left a computer on campus that had a phone connection, to computers in the Navy that took up whole rooms. Yea, government and innovation are cousins…..right.
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