Obviously most new technology doesn't meet the previous excitement... But this is really huge for blind, deaf etc. people! It's not sparse indeed, but from what i understood the encoding used is somewhat similar to nupicencoding... According to http://eaglemanlab.net/sensory-substitution there will be a book next year on the science behind it, and the vest is aimed to be a commercial product, so at a first sight I doubt it's OS...
BUT you can 'buy' the code by bagging them: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/324375300/vest-a-sensory-substitution-neuroscience-project/rewards (if you decide to do so let me know ;D ) here are some papers: http://eaglemanlab.net/publications On Jul 16, 2015 7:46 PM, "Matthew Taylor" <[email protected]> wrote: > Learning how the "sound to touch mapping" part of this system works > would be interesting, although I very much doubt the excitations it > produces are sparse. > > Do you know if the software is open source? (I haven't watched the talks > yet) > --------- > Matt Taylor > OS Community Flag-Bearer > Numenta > > > On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 10:14 AM, Pascal Weinberger > <[email protected]> wrote: > > This is reaaaally cool. > > > > A project trying to convert (for now) speach ti 'SDR' vibration patterns > on > > a Vest, that you wear and learn to 'listen' through the Vibrations. > > Imagine all the inputs you could encode and thereby get an intuition > for... > > *_* > > > > http://ideas.ted.com/how-to-hear-the-world-through-your-chest/ > > > > > https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/324375300/vest-a-sensory-substitution-neuroscience-project > > > > > http://www.ted.com/talks/david_eagleman_can_we_create_new_senses_for_humans?language=en > > > > Enjoy, > > > > Pascal > >
