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Probably more useful: a diaphragm-device you can place over each ear that reproduces audio signals via electrical voltages. So a production can have an actor say, "The stage is lit by 1000 Christmas tree lights of every color" and the person without sight can vainly try to picture color from that auditory input, instead of vainly trying to picture colors based off the simultaneous input of thousands of speakers emitting sounds around the entire periphery of the head.
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May I please request consider the production actor speaking over the diaphragm device placed over each ear powered by electrical voltages may not be able to inform the unsighted as to how to prepare dinner Re/ diaphragm devices I favor the Spendor A7 but lust after the D9.2 - Cheerio
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Something to navigate by would seem more desirable (first); where you wouldn't necessarily have to have 2 good ears. Sound / noise / pressure wave forms. Tie in the space-mapping found in AR (headsets).
"Before entering on an understanding, I have meditated for a long time, and have foreseen what might happen. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or to do in a circumstance unexpected by other people; it is reflection, it is meditation." - Napoleon I
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You are quite correct Our unsighted friend is assumed to have two good ears May I please inquire does AR not require two good eyes - Cheerio
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No ... it requires good cameras, for starters.
"Before entering on an understanding, I have meditated for a long time, and have foreseen what might happen. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or to do in a circumstance unexpected by other people; it is reflection, it is meditation." - Napoleon I
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Happy Holidays My question was in regards so called "spatial mapping" to which you referred I looked the term up on internet to learn it involves visual presentation of 3D information obtained from infrared cameras as per "HoloLens" The critical term here is "visual" which of course is of no use to our unsighted friend - Cheerio
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Space-mapping involves mapping the environment the subject travels in. "Visual presentation" is ONE type of "output"; we have MORE than one sense. How do bats navigate in the dark? Where do they get their information from?
"Before entering on an understanding, I have meditated for a long time, and have foreseen what might happen. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or to do in a circumstance unexpected by other people; it is reflection, it is meditation." - Napoleon I
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Our unsighted friend is not a bat Bats have sophisticated processing skills inherent We do not Any processing can of course be performed off board however the ultimate question remains how to present this 3D information to our human subject I can think of no other than a 2D acoustic array which presents the 3'rd D via acoustic variations to wit i.e. e.g. tone frequency , volume , beep frequency etc. - Cheerio
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Processing skills = CPU. That's why it's called "augmented".
AR cameras capture 3D information in digital form. The digital form can reproduced as visual, audio, etc.
The bat was a metaphor; more akin to your solution than you're apparently aware of.
"Before entering on an understanding, I have meditated for a long time, and have foreseen what might happen. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or to do in a circumstance unexpected by other people; it is reflection, it is meditation." - Napoleon I
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Did they not teach punctuation when you were in school?
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Yes period They did period - Cheerio
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Set it up as a pair of glasses to reflect the viewing area of a sighted person. Feeding into a set of ear plugs. I would assume the brain is wired for forward looking, bi focal vision rather than surround vision.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity -
RAH
I'm old. I know stuff - JSOP
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May I please inquire what signal would be sent via earplugs and how 3D would result Best Wishes of the Holidays
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PaltryProgrammer wrote: 2D array of small audio output devices let's say 100x100
I doubt humans hear that well.
And such a device would of course rendering hearing other things, like oncoming automobiles, difficult.
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For Cetaceans: "A Whale in a manger"
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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Is a reindeer ghost a Cari-boo?
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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I might have herd that one before.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
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Sorry you stupid. Schubert is art 
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This is a wonderful performance of Aida Garifullina - overshadows the other 2 completely ... nice, even for a metalhead like me ... 
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Very Nice Thanks Too bad the laundry was running part way Quite a voice Re/ the statue I am always stunned by the folds Re/ male voice hard to top Pavarotti imho - Happy Holidays
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I don't know how I feel about intellectual property.
I'm not sure I like the idea of it being transferable. After all it doesn't exactly make sense. If I created something using my mind, chances are I can do it again. Even if I can transfer that skill to someone else, *I still have it*. If I "sell you the rights" then I'm basically creating an artificial limit in terms of what I can create. I can no longer create the thing I sold even though I know how.
The other, perhaps more important thing is, I feel like it goes against human advancement. If we're not sharing our knowledge with each other, it is a dramatic waste of humanity's potential. I can't even imagine how much further along STEM would be if we didn't put up artificial barriers around innovation.
On the other hand, I need to eat. My intellectual creations are labor - real work, and I've earned my keep through it.
I wish I could think of a better way to skin this cat.
Real programmers use butterflies
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A popular way seems to be to publish the source code as "open-source", wait a while until enough people are hooked and have contributed, and then proclaim that there is an "advanced paid version" with all kind of nice extra features 
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I agree entirely about the "transfer" of IP. It's fine to say the new "owner" has the right to use it as they wish. It's the removal of rights from the original creator of the IP that is the issue.
I have, over many years, developed a simple application architecture (a "framework" even) that has allowed me to develop flexible, extensible web applications very quickly and reliably. The code is well-tested and robust, and I can build application-specific functionality on top easily. There are no 3rd party frameworks / tools (other than JQuery at the browser) and, being mine, it suits my style perfectly.
However I've developed and delivered a number of projects for different clients all based on that underlying framework. Each has wanted me to transfer IP rights to them, which I have. But to what extent does the IP reside in that underlying framework? When I "clone" the framework as the basis of a new project, I do tend to rename everything; or at least the name prefixes. So for instance the master page is renamed from MSLMaster.master to LPMaster.master to GPOMaster.master etc depending on if the client is MSL, LP or GPO. I do this largely for my own benefit in fact; I'm often working on multiple projects simultaneously and it can get very confusing if the same object names appear in every project. I also cling (in vain I'm sure) to the hope that since the code is "different" I'm not breaching my own IP agreements! (Thankfully my clients don't overlap functionally and knowing them all pretty well, I doubt very much if they care that I use a common code base. In fact they are aware and are pleased as it means I can deliver reliable software faster and cheaper than writing from scratch...)
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