The apps.
Two apps from Third Eye Worldwide: the Third Eye Kit app, which works with the kit, and Third Eye World, a voice-first place to meet other blind and visually impaired people.
The Third Eye Kit app
Planned. The kit app is not released and there is nothing to download yet. Here is what it is being designed to do.
The app lives on the wearer's own phone. It is never in the warning path: the kit warns with no phone and no internet, and the app adds what a phone does well.
What it is being designed to do
Practice that travels with you
The touch simulation from this site, built into the app, so you can practise the signals anywhere before and after you wear the kit.
Planned.
What is around you, described
With a phone camera on a chest mount, the app describes the scene on the phone itself. The camera is your choice: your phone, a low cost camera module, or none.
Planned.
Tell my family where I am
Your live location sent home with one action, the way the first generation sent it with a simple phone call.
Planned.
Your kit, your settings
Pair the kit, check its battery, and set how it speaks to you in games and practice worlds. In the street the bands always speak the same three laws.
Planned.
What you can use today
Real now. The touch simulation runs in your browser now, on a phone or a computer: open the Simulation.
Why the phone carries the camera and not the kit: the phone as the brain, in the research.
Third Eye World, the voice app
In development. A first test build for Android exists for testers. It has not yet been tested with blind and visually impaired testers, and it is not in an app store.
Third Eye World is a social app for blind and visually impaired people where every post is a short voice message. You can like it, answer it, or skip it, and that is all. There is no ranking and no follower count, and the feed ends instead of scrolling forever. It is built against loneliness, not for time spent in the app.
How it is being built
- Sound is the medium, not an extra. Voice first, never voice only.
- Every action works three ways: the phone's media buttons, your voice, and the screen reader menu.
- No timed or precise gestures.
- Your voice is treated as personal data, and moderation is visible and can be appealed.
- Blind people govern it.
Two ways to listen are being built side by side, a radio that plays one message after another and a deck you move through one card at a time. Blind and visually impaired testers will choose which comes first.
Want to test it? Write to us.