Hi Rob, Just wanted to make sure you got the invite? It seems so far with our tests, the app has some issues with iphone 5s and 6 as the CPU architecture is older on these devices. Hopefully you have something more recent.
Have a great day > On 13 Aug 2018, at 5:40 am, 'RobH.' via VIPhone <viphone@googlegroups.com> > wrote: > > OOoo!... wonderful, so very wonderful, if it can really do all that. I > kinda borrowed a particularly good 1st year degree level > course notes in astro-physics years ago and still re-read it. Never saw well > enough to see stars, just sun and moon. Not even that > now mind. > > But yes, this would be fascinating to try, will deal with that in a bit. > > What version of iOws will it work down to? I am Not a slavish follower of > versions while the one I have works with what I have. > There's so many stories of new downloads crippling perfectly good old ones. > > Many thanks and all the best with it, BobH. > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Yuma Decaux" <jamy...@gmail.com> > To: <macvisionar...@googlegroups.com> > Cc: <viphone@googlegroups.com> > Sent: Sunday, August 12, 2018 8:15 PM > Subject: Introducing Astreos: universal access to the cosmos > > > 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 >> >> <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 <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 <http://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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