Live demo · HapticNav wearable, in your phone
Walk somewhere without looking.
Your phone stands in for the HapticNav wearable a blind person wears on the wrist. It follows your real location and compass and talks to you only through touch: a steady heartbeat while you’re on course, taps or pulses when you drift, a buzz if you face the wrong way.
Haptic guidance
Mode Not started
Places near you
Choose one from the list, or use the big button: tap for the next place, press and hold to go.
Keep this page open with the screen on (we ask your phone to stay awake). Vibration works in Android Chrome. iPhone browsers can’t vibrate, so switch on Sound for headphones: the same rhythm, left or right.
Observer view
For people watching the demo. The walker doesn’t need it.
Silent
Guidance is off
- To go
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- GPS accuracy
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- Heading from
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- TTO
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The pulse language
| You are | You feel |
|---|---|
| On course | A gentle heartbeat every 1.2 s: guidance is on, keep going |
| Drifting left | Quick double taps (left wall). Faster and stronger the further off: come right |
| Drifting right | One long pulse (right wall). Faster and longer the further off: come left |
| Facing away | Continuous buzz: turn around |
| Turn ahead | Three quick taps = turn right; three long pulses = turn left |
| Arrived | A celebration, then a slow heartbeat that fades out |
Demo, not for real-world navigation. The guidance engine runs on your device (WebAssembly); your position and the pulses are never uploaded and this page sends no telemetry of its own. To find places and walking routes it asks Mapbox, which receives your approximate position and destination. With no location or compass (most laptops) a simulated walker takes over and is labelled as such.