Hallo Matthew!
I'm BlindSquare developer and to answer your question I would start by
saying "This is something else". It's kind of swiss army knife app for the
blind. I had initial idea how to do augmented reality app for the blind but
within 6 months I have done 4 major releases implementing ideas what users
have requested. Some feature requests still are under planning and I'm not
going to break it by introducing complexity. It should be super easy to use
for everybody.
You can find this from this chain but I'll repost what I wrote earlier.
About what BlindSquare does: It reports automatically street addresses
while you walk, next street crossing, automatic pedometer reading
("you have walked 700 meters in 7 minutes") and reporting of nearby
places by categories (it automatically picks most popular places
within selected radius, based on foursquare check-ins). This all
happens just by launching the app so it takes no time to start using
the app, even if you don't use FourSquare yourself.
If you take phone out of the pocket, you can search categories, set
reporting certain category on/off, "look around" (you get information
what kind of places and what street crossings are in different
directions), search with free search term, view information of places
(name, address, phone number, www-site, twitter feed), start
navigation to the place or do foursquare check-in.
When you jump into the bus, BlindSquare automatically notices it and
starts reporting street crossing while bus is making a turn so you can
keep track where you are.
You can also add placemarks for yourself. They are synced to iCloud so
if you have several devices (for example iPad + iPhone), you always
get informed when you get near that place. Some users use this to give
warning about bus stop they need to get off.
On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 4:32 PM, matthew Dyer <matthewdyer...@msn.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> What is this blind square? Is this a gps app? Thanks.
>
>
> On Nov 1, 2012, at 11:58 PM, keith weatherly wrote:
>
> > hello, i just bought the blindsquare app today and i was just wondering
> how do i get it to tell me how to get from one point to the next point? for
> example when i come out of my apartment and want to walk to the store
> across the street from the apartment complex or maybe the church a little
> ways down the street. Are there certon settings that i need to use? I was
> riding in the car with a friend and it did anounce when he was at the
> diferent streets as well as the stores in view. I just want to know how i
> can use it for walking and get constent prompt to my destonation. Thank you
> in advance.
> > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ilkka Pirttimaa" <
> ilkka.pirtti...@gmail.com>
> > To: <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com>
> > Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2012 10:13 AM
> > Subject: Re: Best GPS for me?
> >
> >
> >> Yes, just open "App Store" on your iPhone and search "blindsquare".
> >> Here is link too:
> https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/blindsquare/id500557255?mt=8
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