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Outlines in the dark

Right now, if you're visually impaired – or just driving at night – your options for knowing what's around you are headlights and hope. Meanwhile, lidar and night-vision cameras can already trace the edges of objects in real time.

So what if we projected those outlines directly over your glasses, or built them into AR glasses? Low-vision users get a layer of the world back at exactly the hours it disappears, and night driving gets meaningfully safer for everyone else.

Reach out if you know optics, lidar, or AR hardware – or you've felt this problem from the driver's seat.

ariyan.patel@yale.edu