Ford's Feel the View smart window lets blind passengers enjoy the landscape
Ford has developed a "new haptic visual language" that allows blind people to experience the view through a car window.
The Feel the View smart window captures an image of the surrounding scenery and translates it into vibrations on a tactile display that a passenger can explore through touch.
A video released by the car brand describes the technology as "allowing passengers to touch the scene and rebuild in their mind the landscape in front of them".
Ford's Feel the View smart window translates images into a tactile display
Feel the View came out of a brainstorming session run by Ford of Italy with local start-ups. Ford embraced the idea and financed a prototype, which was developed by creative agency GTB Roma and Aedo Project, a start-up focused on making devices for the visually impaired. The window boasts a built-in camera that, at the push of a button, photographs the view beyond it. The photo is turned into a high-contrast greyscale image and reproduced through small LEDs embedded in the glass.
While this reproduction is invisible to the naked eye, the LEDs provide haptic feedback, vibrating at different intensities corresponding to different shades of grey ? the whiter the colour under your fingertips, the greater the intensity of vibration. There are 255 levels of vibration available.
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