Google's Project Guideline helps visually impaired run, play sports; here's how it works

Google Inc. is developing a techlogy that could help blind people run and play outdoor sports with safety. Called ‘Guideline’, project involves assisting visually impaired people using camera on ir smartphones. project, which is undertaken in collaboration with American guide dog training school, is currently in its test phase.

“Project Guideline is an early-phase research project, created with and for people who are blind and low vision. To start, we collaborated with n-profit organization, Guiding Eyes for Blind and ir CEO, Thomas Panek”, Google wrote in a statement.

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How does it work ?

Guideline project uses machine learning and requires a smartphone, headphones and a yellow coloured guideline painted on ground in order to enable a user to follow a fixed itinerary. While smartphone is tied at blind athlete’s wrist, it’s camera approximates user’s position and delivers audio feedback via headphones to help keep m on guideline.

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In or news, Google, on vember 21 launched a new chat feature on its SMS initiative RCS (Rich Communications Services) for users worldwide to enhance standard messaging experience. As many as 27 carriers and device manufacturers introduced upgrade to RCS after Google shared latest update on its communication app. Google’s messaging will allow users to share high-resolution photos, receipts, and end to end encryptions in future apart from already available features such as video calling and Smart Reply to outdo spams. 

In an attempt to beat Apple’s iMess and Facebook’s WhatsApp that function on over--top (OTT) services, Google introduced advanced chat feature on RCS replacing traditional messaging system that doesn’t need a ‘separate account’. RCS will function across all networks, phones, laptops, and operating systems globally. “We’ve completed our global rollout of chat features to make this modern messaging experience universal and interconnected for everyone on Android,” Google said in a statement. “w anyone using Messs around world has access to modern chat features eir from ir carrier or directly from Google,” it added.