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# An audio game that teaches blind people to navigate
- URL: https://www.killscreen.com/audio-game-teaches-blind-people-navigate/
- Published: 2012-11-08T17:30:15.000Z
- Updated: 2015-11-17T14:50:15.000Z
- Description: Very cool news: The system, developed by a team led by Lotfi Merabet of Harvard Medical School and Jaime Sánchez of the University of Chile, is called the Audiobased Environment Simulator and uses only audio-based cues to allow blind users to learn about the layout of a previously unfamiliar buildin
- Author: Joseph Bernstein
- Tags: News, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-26 09:39

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/25/84/2584b75d-4bd6-4cce-8259-f1d1c65abbb5/content/images/previously/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/blindside_01.jpg)

[Very cool news](http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/09/120919190606.htm?ref=killscreen.com):

> The system, developed by a team led by Lotfi Merabet of Harvard Medical School and Jaime Sánchez of the University of Chile, is called the Audiobased Environment Simulator and uses only audio-based cues to allow blind users to learn about the layout of a previously unfamiliar building.

This system seems to operate by the same principle as BlindSide, the iOS horror game that operates purely through audio cues. Could developers commercialize a product to help blind people “see” their world better?