waveOut vs Seeing Assistant Go

The world's first spatial audio navigation app - See the world through your ears. Our mission is to make navigation easy for everyone. **Features at a glance: 1. Audio Augmented Reality - Virtual waypoints are placed in the real world around you 2. Spatial Audio - You can hear the waypoints as if a friend was calling 3. Navigation by Hearing - Follow the sounds until the destination. Simple and hands-free 4. Three views: descriptive cards, map view (classic) and AR view 5. Save favourite places and routes 6. Three different guiding sounds 7. Explore nearby places with “Around Me” 8. Navigate indoors as easily as outdoor **What to do -Wear headphones -Start a route -The phone’s back camera must be facing the same direction you are looking at as images of the streets and house walls are analysed locally on your phone to improve localization (data is not stored or processed for anything else). -Follow the audio: no need to look at the screen -To get the best experience, please check out our tutorials **Route planning can be done: -Directly on the app -In your (desktop) browser with the web planner at: https://app.waveout.app/map -Places and routes can saved on your account and can be user later for navigation. ** Help us improve All feedback is welcome! It is the way by which we will improve. If you have any suggestions, questions or need help, please write us at support@dreamwaves.io With your help, we create the navigation of the future! ** Free version and premium features The app has all the features in place for audio navigation and is currently completely free. In the future we will introduce premium features including higher localization accuracy and these will be part of a subscription plan. ** App details Headphones are needed to hear the waypoints. Even though we use spatial audio, any headphone model will work. For the best experience, we recommend open headphones so you are always aware of the world around you. For an amazing experience we will support selected hearables. Stay tuned! ** Behind the scenes An intuitive experience requires that the virtual content is displayed flawlessly. We use state-of-the art computer vision methods to determine the location of the user within the world. We take the latest augmented reality toolkits, global positioning advances and machine learning methods, combine them with some magic and obtain the position with incredible accuracy. **Spatial audio Spatial audio simulates the way people naturally understand sound locations. When a phone rings, or a friend calls, you immediately turn your head. Spatial audio does the same and we use this to help you find the next waypoint in the easiest way. Terms of service: Privacy policy: https://www.dreamwaves.io/impressum.html Website: https://www.dreamwaves.io Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dreamwaves.io/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/dreamwaves.io Twitter: https://twitter.com/dreamwaves_io LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/dreamwaves Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvX11E-zUioNxhqEl2PLBZg/featured

The Seeing Assistant Go app supports the spatial orientation of blind and visually impaired people. It provides information about the surroundings using synthetic speech, sounds, evibrations and pointing in the direction of the top of the phone. Useful when travelling, but also for getting to know the area of unfamiliar places you are about to visit. - Are you travelling by bus and want to know which stop it has just stopped at or how far it is to the one you want to get off at? - Which streets is the taxi taking you down? - Where is the nearest grocery shop to the guesthouse where you are going to spend your holiday? - Is the beach really as close from there as the owner claims? - Which stop is closest to the address you are going to and what is the best route to get there? - Do you want to save places that are important to you in the app so you can easily return to them? Two app modes let you customise the app to your liking: - Basic mode for beginners, without unnecessary functions that you are not going to use anyway. - Advanced mode: a lot of settings and functions, without which it is difficult to imagine a meaningful navigation app for the blind. There are a few things to keep in mind to make using Seeing Assistant Go convenient and safe for you: - The app is not a replacement for a white cane or a guide dog. It is a supplement to these rehabilitation aids. - The information in the app comes from map data, not from observation of the terrain. It may inform about closed places and ignore others that have not yet been mapped. - The routes suggested by the application do not take into account local conditions, such as pavement repairs or other temporary obstacles and impediments on the road. As with our other applications in the Seeing Assistant family, we have also included the best of what we have in the Transition Technologies team in Go: - More than a decade of experience in creating innovative software for the blind. - An uncompromising approach to maximising the product’s accessibility for screen readers. - Openness to implementing users’ ideas: we cannot guarantee that we will implement all good ideas quickly, but we will certainly do it better than anyone else!