Technology recently has been greatly developed for humans’ lives. Its exponential advancement always amazes us again and again. Humans become a society that is passionately keep looking for new things without satisfaction. It may ease their lives but at the same time it is also giving a negative impacts for the society, and even sometimes used for bad activities such as phone prank, portnographic web, gun, online fraud, etc.
However, there is one specific society which is not up to and unable to enjoy this excitement of technology – the visually impaired society. Their lifestyle is still not influenced much by technology due to their incapability. Eventhough they want to, they can use it because the technologies we have now always use visual to interact with; being left out.
Hence, this project brings technologies to this unfortunate society so that they can keep up and live together with the global ones without social gap.
ViiO Travel Aid helps visually impaired people to travel independently with absolute confidence, just like general society. By incorporating the latest technologies into this set of two devices, Viitect and Viirect, it acts as smart and innovative navigation locally and globally to find direction during traveling which is very crucial for visually impaired individual.
"ViiO redefines the way the world looks at blind people, and the way blind people look at the world.