Mobile GPS Navigation Apps
What is a Mobile Navigation App ?
Mobile Navigation Apps are software applications for Mobile Devices such as Smart Phones and Tablets to guide a visually impaired person to a destination using GPS co-ordinates.
NaviLens -iOS and Android – Free.
NaviLens is a new and enhanced kind of QR code reader, but unlike existing QR codes that can only be read from a short distance, the NaviLens tag can be detected by your smart phone camera up to 60 feet away with a 160 degree wide-angle range. This means that you will now be able to detect NaviLens tags that are almost at your 9 o’clock or 3 o’clock direction, thus being simple to find if you are blind or visually impaired. For example, you will now be able to find an indoor room if you are walking down a hallway, or another destination as you are approaching a bus stop or store front. And with NaviLens, you don’t even have to aim or point your phone as precisely as before.
In addition, there are home-use NaviLens tags that are free and you can print them out on your own personal printer and use them at home, and customize them for whatever purpose you want: labeling your record or CD collection, items in your fridge or pantry, clothing or medications, Then you can find things as easy as opening up the NaviLens app on your phone. (This feature also places ‘naviLens’ in the ‘Identifier’ apps category.
NaviLens will be launching a new and more dynamic feature called NaviLens 360 Vision which gives you detailed step by step, foot by foot guidance to your destination with all kinds of really cool navigational assistance, such as audible tones to guide you left or right or straight to your destination.
- Fastet ; Reading markers with NaviLens is almost instantaneous.
- Long Distance ; Capable of reading the labels from long distances, depending on the size of the marker. A 10 inches NaviLens code can be read up to 60 feet away in 0.03 seconds, covering 160° degrees.
- No Focus ; No need for focusing, which is essential for people with visual impairments.
- Movement ; Navilens algorithm detects the tags when the user is walking or in motion while the cell phone is pointed up.
- Distance & Orientation ; Navilens accurately detects the distance between the user and the tags. In addition, NaviLens provides the relative angle of the user with respect to the tag.
- Multiple Reading ; NaviLens detects multiple tags simultaneously, efficiently communicating them to the user
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Amedia NaviRec for iOS - Free.
Amedia NaviRec is a guidance recording app developed for the visually impaired to record audio and its locations during an entire travel. The app is a combination of a voice recorder and GPS device. NaviRec has three modes: Record Mode, Replay Mode, and Guidance Mode. Record Mode and Replay Mode work just like a voice recorder. It records and replays the audio recorded during a guidance. When traveling, the user can use Guidance Mode, and the app will replay the recorded audio clip based on location, helping the user to remember the guidance, and navigate towards the destination.
Microsoft Soundscape -iOS and Android – Free.
Microsoft Soundscape uses 3D audio technology to enhance your awareness of what is around you, and thereby help you get around and explore your surroundings.
Soundscape will place audio cues and labels in 3D space such that they sound like they are coming from the direction of the points of interest, parks, roads and other features in your surroundings.
You will need a pair of stereo headsets that you feel comfortable wearing outdoors. For example, bone conduction headsets, Apple AirPods and in-ear open headphones have proven to work well.
Soundscape is designed to live in the background and provide you with effortless ambient awareness. Therefore, feel free to use it in conjunction with other apps such as podcasts, audio books, email and even GPS navigation.
- Key features:
- As you walk, Soundscape will automatically call out the key points of interest, roads and intersections that you pass. These can be adjusted and turned on and off.
- An audio beacon can be placed on a point of interest, and you will hear it as you move around. You can place an audio beacon on a point of interest that you would like to track such as your destination, a point to return to or a landmark you are familiar with.
- “My location” describes your current location and the direction you are facing
- “Around me” describes nearby points of interest in each of the four cardinal directions, helping with orientation. Try this out when getting off a bus or leaving a train station.
- “Ahead of me” describes points of interest in front of you, for example when walking down the street.
