Sandy! If you are on "the dark side of the moon" how is it that I am recieving
your emails? If radio and light waves can't get through, what kind of waves
transport emails?
Jewel
From: 'Sandy Tomkins' via VIPhone
Sent: Monday, August 13, 2018 10:18 PM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: Introducing Astreos: universal access to the cosmos
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/
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