Summary The app which goes by the name of Color Binoculars, makes use of the phone's camera.
SAN FRANCISCO (Dunya News) – Microsoft has introduced a unique app for colorblind people.
The new app lets colorblind people see the world a little clearer and differentiate between various colors.
The app which goes by the name of Color Binoculars, makes use of the phone’s camera to adjust colors in such a way that a colorblind person can see whatever’s in the frame in the same way a non-colorblind person would.
It is a free 14.6MB iOS app that consists of a translator and is being released through the Microsoft Garage.
“It’s an app that helps colorblind people distinguish color combinations that they would normally have trouble telling apart,” Tom Overton, the creator, said in a Microsoft blog post.
“For example, since I have difficulty distinguishing between red and green, our app makes reds brighter and greens darker so that the difference is more obvious. It replaces difficult color combinations, like red and green, with more easily distinguishable combinations, like pink and green.”
The app offers three modes, one for each of the three most major types of colorblindness: red/green, green/red, and blue/yellow. There’s also an option to turn off the color correction, so you can easily swap between what you normally see and what a non-colorblind person sees and contrast the differences.
