Description of App
RightHear is a virtual accessibility assistant that helps users to easily orient themselves in new or casual environments. Our vision is to make blind, visually impaired and other people with orientation disabilities feel much more independent by assisting them going anywhere, anytime.
Below are explanations of the app main modes and features:
Outdoor Mode:
• Current Location - Get your outdoor physical location.
• Around Me - Get outdoor nearby points of interest by turning your phone in different directions (data source is Open Street Map).
• Nearby - Lists of RighHear enabled locations and other points of interest around you.
• Record - Create your personal point of interest wherever you like and navigate there or get notify once you walk by it.
• Lens - Use object recognition tools to help you with your daily needs.
• Direction - Know the direction you are walking towards.
• Navigation - A unique RightHear navigation experience with special sound effects to keep you on track.
Indoor Mode (supported in RightHear enabled locations only):
• Current Location - Get your indoor physical location.
• Around Me - Get indoor nearby points of interest by turning your phone in different directions.
• Nearby - Lists of RighHear spots inside of the building you are at.
• Call - Get local representative assistance by phone.
• Link - A web page with additional info.
• Lens - Use object recognition tools to help you with your daily needs.
• Direction - Know the direction you are walking towards.
Demo Mode:
Simulate a RightHear location and its internal spots.
Public Transportation:
Receive a nearby list of stations, lines, and expected departures.
App Tutorials:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDOhATe8ahU&list=PLlV2Gm9qm1UiQ607bqxXuBDa-Bq9bmvOR&ab_channel=Right-Hear
Comments
Making our own routs
I live in the country and one of the houses that I go to sometimes it’s not very far from our own house and we don’t even have to go onto the road. Is there a way to possibly make a route of our own so that way we can follow that route independently later? What I mean is, someone cited, could walk you on that route And walk you back then later when you want to go there by yourself, you could go there without any assistance.
You can use the recordings feature for that
It won’t record the whole route, but the RightHear app do let you leave “bread crumbs” along the way. In other words you can leave landmarks which you record for yourself, like: “this is where I need to turn right”.
Supported locations
What does it take for a location to be a RightHear enabled location? I've been waiting for universal indoor navigation for years. I'd love to have an app that can guide me through an airport so I don't require wheelchair assistance, or around a complicated hotel or conference center so I don't need to hire a sighted guide. But every time an app like this comes out, it seems to require some significant mapping or data entry work, and as a result, the vast majority of indoor complexes are unsupported. Please tell me this app is different.
Wasn't this app called…
Wasn't this app called something else at one time?
It takes an hour, a minimal budget and mostly awareness
Paul, I spoke with the RightHear's developers recently, and one of the main advantages they mentioned, again and again, is the simplicity of turning a space into a RightHear-enabled one (they even encouraged me to put this statement to a test by recommending a location in my area to have it). My understanding from them is that it takes about an hour for a space the size of McDonald's to be accessible and a very minimal fee on the facility side (free to us of course).
The main challenge they are facing is awareness of the problem and their solution and they hope that users will help them with it.
Troy, they never had a different name, it is the same one for over 5 years now.