One Small Device, Staggering Engineering: How OneCourt Compresses a Live Stadium Into a Tablet Blind Fans Can Feel (opens in new tab)

Here Aaron Di Blasi, Publisher for the Top Tech Tidbits weekly newsletter, takes readers inside OneCourt, the Seattle company whose "tactile broadcast" finally lets blind and low‑vision fans follow a live game in real time, by touch. Writing as both an engineer and a publisher, he walks through how a tablet‑sized haptic device taps the official tracking data the NFL, NBA, and MLB already collect, translates it in the cloud into OneCourt's proprietary "haptic language," and delivers it as vibr...