yuma, Your app sounds absolutely gorgeous! your presentation of it was absolutely excellent! I shall try and download the beta version a little later today. I think, we are only just beginning to explore the possibilities 3-D sound skates. thanks for creating something so beautiful and immersive.
from Sandy, in Ireland. Sent from The dark side of the moon > On 12 Aug 2018, at 20:15, Yuma Decaux <jamy...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi Everyone, > > A quick introduction of myself. > > I am a blind software engineer, studying mahematics at UQ in Brisbane, > Australia. > > I am also a passionate sci-fi, space, physics and astronomy fan. I am not > partially sighted, I am stone cold blind. But I wasn't always like that. I > still remember summer nights when the sky was clear enough to see the Milky > Way, the planets through the lens of a telescope, and the first images of > constellations with their beautiful nebulas came out. > > So I decided to write an app that allows me, blind, to find the exact > position of all these objects in the sky using 2 sensory dimensions, with an > attention to those who are partially sighted too, wherever I am located on > earth. if I look for the sun, the phone will orient me to its exact location. > > Astreos is the concatenation of Astrius, god of dusk, and Eos, goddess of > dawn. > > As the app is a complete 6 degree of freedom experience to find planets, > moons, manmade satellites and fragments, comets, asteroids, near earth > objects, constellations, major stars and find information about them all, I > thought it appropriate to put both gods of the sky in the same name. > > This app uses connections to NASA's APIs, including the Horizons system which > follows in mission critical precision all objects within the confines of the > solar system, and updates itself automatically for the more than 118000 stars > which are visible to the naked eye, 220000 other objects, including far away > galaxies, their names, categories, how they look, what chemical elements or > spectrum they have, super novas, and much more, through the largest > astronomical database, the Vizier catalogue. > > The app is still in beta and I and my team are working hard to put more and > more content to the app, but more importantly, finding new ways to allow > those of us who are blind to access such information, and really have a sense > of where all of this is in the sky. > > My personal experience for this has been to better understand where a lot of > stars remain almost static, how some constellations are named and why, when > they apear in the sky at what time, using my exact location. I spend a lot of > time reflecting on how to make this magic better using either visual, sound, > touch or voice. > > You can listen to the frequencies coming out of every planet, and get a 3D > audio experience of major stars in the 89 constellations interpreted as > chimes, with higher pitches representing newborn stars, and clangy metallic > chimes those older stars which are cooling down. Novas are thunder rolls > coursing through the 3D space, and i am thinking of other ways to represent > those stars and their properties. > > > The official video will be coming out soon, but here's a quick demo audio of > me playing around with it: > >> https://www.dropbox.com/s/yj184tgvzr481p8/Input%20Device%20Recording%2020180812%200638.mp3?dl=0 >> > > > If you are interested in testing the beta, I invite you to leave me your > email at the following link: (don't expect it to be completely stable yet but > it works fine on devices such as iPads and iPhones down to the 6 without > issues). > > https://www.oseyeris.com/contacts > > > Since this is a beta, I am interested in getting your feedback, ideas and > requests, and I will do my best to put them in the app. > > have a great week y'all, > > Yuma Antoine Decaux > OSS (Operating System Stack) > Oseyeris > www.oseyeris.com > Skype: Shainobi1 > twitter: @triple7 > linkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/yuma-decaux-2756284/ > -- > The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. > > If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if > you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or > moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. > > Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor. 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