New Video Game Helps The Blind Navigate Using 'Virtual Maps'

When it comes to helping the blind navigate through the world, there are several options. A cane is probably one of the most useful tools. Seeing-eye dogs can also be a huge help. And there are portable GPS systems that can help as well.

But here in Boston, researchers are developing another tool to help the blind: video games.

Lotfi Merabet, a neuroscientist at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary in Boston, is developing a video game designed to help the blind find their way through a building — and it has huge potential.

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You can read more about Merabet's research in an article featured in the journal Science, here.  Our piece was produced with help from Gauthier Giacomoni.