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What Does a Blind Person Think about Virtual Reality?
Katsutoshi Tsuji joined our virtual reality (VR) accessibility research and provided a lot of insightful feedback. You can read what he shared in Virtual Reality Accessibility: 11 Things We Learned from Blind Users After he tried the Equal Entry virtual reality environment, we interviewed him to gain insights on virtual reality from his perspective as a person who is blind.
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Virtual Reality Accessibility: 11 Things We Learned from Blind Users
The current platforms and systems used in virtual reality (VR) technologies cannot be used by people who are blind. Equal Entry believes that VR should be accessible to all people with disabilities.
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Accessibility Virtual Reality: Accessibly (Re)Creating the Past
The reason Deb Mayers calls this (re)creation of the past is that we can't ever be sure exactly what the past was like. The (re)construction with the parentheses around the "re" bit shows that things weren't ever truly authentic, but are copies in their own right.
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Designing for Bodies: Accessibility in Virtual Reality
Designing For Bodies: Accessibility in Virtual Reality is about the challenges developers and designers face in building accessible XR experiences when the nature of XR is an embodied experience, and many standard methods of interaction and interface require complex bodily movements.
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Adding Alt Text in Social Virtual Reality
Imagine trying to navigate a virtual space without being able to see the objects in it. If a host tells everyone to move to the outside space and you can't see where is outside and where is inside in the virtual world, then how do you do that?
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Top 6 Things to Ensure Your Virtual Reality App Is Accessible
Thanks to the crisis, virtual reality growth is multiplying. Global spending on extended reality including virtual reality and augmented reality headsets, software, and services have climbed in 2020, a 50% increase from 2019 according to IDC.
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How Can a Blind Person Use Virtual Reality?
Virtual reality is a very visual medium. It might surprise you to learn there are people who are blind or have low vision who enjoy virtual reality
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Accessibility Virtual Reality Meetup: What Is It Like in Spatial?
Accessibility Virtual Reality (A11yVR) Meetup has held many of its meetups in Mozilla Hubs. We've had one in AltspaceVR
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How Virtual Reality Can Be More Accessible with WalkinVR
Imagine you're wearing a virtual reality headset and sitting in a chair or wheelchair. You start playing Job Simulator
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