New Technology Lets Blind Gamers Play Racing Video Games

A PhD candidate in computer science at Columbia Engineering has developed a powerful new piece of software that allows the blind and visually impaired to play racing video games.The technology, known as racing auditory display (or RAD), was designed by PhD candidate Brian Smith to allow those with a visual impairment to play racing video games at the same speed and intensity as those who are sighted.RAD works by essentially creating an auditory ‘picture’ of the video game and wh