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A young boy wearing the PeopleLens sits on the floor of a playroom holding a blind tennis ball in his hands with three adults in a circle. He is playing a game in which he is orchestrating a group singing exercise by directing his attention to people. The PeopleLens is reading out the names of people that the child looks at in spatialized audio to give him a sense of the respective positions and distances of the people around. In doing so, the PeopleLens helps the child build a mental map of his immediate social environment.

Read the blog: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/peoplelens-using-ai-to-support-social-interaction-between-children-who-are-blind-and-their-peers/