OneCourt
I founded OneCourt after observing a blind man at a soccer match. He sat in the stands with a sighted woman, who watched the game below, and simultaneously moved his hands across a game board to represent the action on the field. It was through touch that he was able to understand and gain access to the game.
Using computer vision and haptics, OneCourt translates live gameplay into trackable vibrations, so people can access live sports with their fingertips. We extract positional data from live sports feeds using computer vision. The data is processed by our server before it’s experienced by the user as intuitive vibrations on the surface of our portable device.
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“I don’t know what the line of scrimmage looks like. A device like this would enable me to experience new details”
Garrett
Blind Since Birth, Football Fan
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“I don’t know what’s happening in real time due to the 10 second radio delay”
Jake
Blind, LeBron James FanQuote Source
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“You invest because you want to make that connection with the one fan that isn’t able to enjoy it”
Cam
Director of Marketing, University of Oregon AthleticsQuote Source
With audio alone, it can be very difficult to understand key details like ball and player positions and movements
OneCourt conveys hard-to-describe details through touch
Let Users Lead
In the video below, Vic, a blind student at UW, tests our end-to-end prototype. He created a mental grid of the motors and calls them out in real time. This prototype demonstrates how we can translate dynamic movements into intuitive haptics. We rely on Vic and others in our community to inform the development of our prototypes.
Team
Leadership
Jerred Mace - CEO, Industrial Design
Antyush Bollini - COO, MS Technology Innovation
Andrew Buckingham - CTO, Electrical Engineering
Nick Durand - MS Computer Science
Design
Kunal Mehta - MS HCDE
Business Development
Alexa Garay - Finance
Simon Dey - Economics
Bree Fraser - Tech MBA
