The vOICE

Blind people obviously cannot see, but usually they can hear. So if blind people could learn to mentally reconstruct the visual content carried by these sounds, then they might be able to “see” through sound.
This knowledge converted into the design of the vOICe enables blind people to see, thereby bringing them the gift of a new sense they have formerly been forced to live without. Being able to see on their own provides the formerly blind people an independence and freedom they have never experienced before in their life. Thus, the vOICe is revolutionary for blind people and might even give them a feeling of being more complete. The vOICe design provides the blind user with live visual input from a head-mounted camera by capturing and converting this live video on-the-fly into closely corresponding “visual sounds” that convey the visual content. The blind user learns to mentally interpret the complex sounds as visual views.
The vOICe can improve life for the visually impaired and is highly modular. Its many combinations of commercially available hardware can be used in individual trade-offs between factors like cost, size, weight, ruggedness and convenience.