V irtual reality (VR) is emerging as a powerful tool to boost confidence, independence, and social participation for visually impaired...

I magine you slip on a VR headset and suddenly you’re inside a busy shopping mall. Now picture navigating that mall without clear vision....

I n today's blog, we will discuss a review paper: "Two Decades of Touchable and Walkable Virtual Reality for Blind and Visually Impaired...

V irtual reality promises to revolutionize the way we shop, offering immersive, three-dimensional experiences far beyond the flat screens...

B efore we talk headsets and haptics, it helps to remember that visually impaired shoppers have already spent years negotiating...

W hen a product page is covered in images, star-ratings and long comment threads, blind or low-vision shoppers have to sift through every...

I n this blog, we will discuss a recent study by Wedoff et al.[1] that introduces Virtual Showdown, a VR adaptation of the “Showdown”...

A trip through a virtual supermarket is only empowering when every shopper can move with confidence. For blind and low-vision consumers,...

Fig: The first image presents the original scene, while each subsequent image shows how the scene appears after a single tool has been...

S hopping malls are still a major destination for leisure and everyday purchases, yet their layout, lighting, signage and payment systems...

E veryday tasks like choosing groceries and cooking can be deceptively complex when vision is impaired. A study by Kostyra et al. (2017)...

Shopping is a routine activity for many, but for visually impaired people (VIP), it involves navigating a complex web of challenges that...

Figure: Overview of BrowseWithMe, which converts multimodal information (text and images) on a product web page into a structured...

In this blog, we explore a research article titled "The Barriers to Online Clothing Websites for Visually Impaired People: An Interview...

Today we will discuss a research article titled “I Bought This for Me to Look More Ordinary”: A Study of Blind People Doing Online...

Revamp System implemented as a browser extension for Amazon.com In our previous discussions, we presented the summary of significant...

In the last two blogs, we talked about the offline shopping and the online shopping journey of VIP. Building on that foundation, we now...

In our previous blog, we explored the offline shopping journey of visually impaired individuals (VIPs) and the challenges they face, from...

This is our first blog post sharing our learning from a few research papers we have studied and analyzed. We will be publishing detailed...

The dawn of the metaverse presents a transformative era for e-commerce, offering immersive and interactive shopping experiences that...