Observed arrival · 2026-10-11
NaviGuider leaves the crossing decision to the traveler
NaviGuider is an engineering-stage walking guide for blind and low-vision travelers, combining route directions and obstacle awareness from a chest-mounted iPhone.
- For
- Blind and low-vision travelers evaluating walking guidance
- Worth noticing
- The demo says depth may stop returning at 3.6 m on wet, absorptive surfaces; NaviGuider labels that unknown and slows.
Field notes
The page presents an interactive walk-through with separate examples for route guidance, obstacles, people crossing, uncertain surfaces, curbs, and crossings. Its cue demo exposes controls for hazard type, distance, side, pulse rate, and tone. The page says depth stopped returning at 3.6 m on a wet, absorptive surface, so the system labels the surface unknown and slows rather than guessing; it also says the proposed haptic shoes have not been built or evaluated.
Observed signals
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