a11yvr

6:25 pm on December 10, 2020 · a11y (127), a11ysig (75), a11yvr (32), vr (24)

Why 97.81% of the World Hasn’t Tried VR Yet – Pablo Cardenas

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livestreamOn Thursday Dec 10 2020 at 7pm EST / 00:00 UTC / 9am JST (Fri) the Accessibility VR Meetup hosts ‘Why 97.81% of the World Hasn’t Tried VR Yet‘ on Mozilla Hubs. Presenter Pablo Cardenas has spent the last 6 years learning and creating virtual worlds in 3D using computer generated graphics. He will discuss ways of making VR accessible to those with limited resources, both financial and ability. The session will be webcast live via a partnership with the Internet Society Accessibility SIG (A11ySIG).

LIVESTREAM: https://livestream.com/internetsociety/a11yvr12 (open captions)

PARTICIPATE: https://hubs.mozilla.com/G6edX79/a11yvr-project/ (open captions)

REAL TIME TEXT: https://www.streamtext.net/player?event=a11yvr

TWITTER: @a11yvr   #VR

SIMULCASTS (open captions)
https://youtu.be/aFrBL0CJWjM
https://www.pscp.tv/ISOC_Live/
https://www.twitch.tv/isoclive

ARCHIVE https://archive.org/details/a11yvr12

3:19 am on November 5, 2020 · a11y (127), a11yvr (32), haptics (1), vr (24)

WEBCAST NOV 19: Haptics for XR – How designing great haptics can support use case accessibility – Eric Vezzoli

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On Thursday Nov 19 2020 at 1pm EST / 18:00 UTC / 3am JST (Fri) the Accessibility VR Meetup hosts ‘Haptics for XR – How designing great haptics can support use case accessibility‘ on Mozilla Hubs. Hand interaction with virtual content in XR is mainly mediated by controllers equipped with haptics actuators. Haptics can play a strong role for accessibility through sensory substitution, which means deliver through the sense of touch information otherwise mediated by sound or vision. Presenter Eric Vezzoli will focus on haptics design guidelines for XR, and a practical approach on how to implement and realize them via the Interhaptics haptic composer. The session will be webcast live via a partnership with the Internet Society Accessibility SIG (A11ySIG).

LIVESTREAM: https://livestream.com/internetsociety/a11yvr11 (open captions)

PARTICIPATE: https://hubs.mozilla.com/G6edX79/a11yvr-project/ (open captions)

REAL TIME TEXT: https://www.streamtext.net/player?event=a11yvr

TWITTER: @a11yvr #haptics #XR @GoTouchVR

SIMULCASTS (open captions)
https://www.pscp.tv/ISOC_Live/
https://www.twitch.tv/isoclive
https://youtu.be/U_zOqehH_Gs

ARCHIVE https://archive.org/details/a11yvr11

6:34 pm on October 22, 2020 · a11yvr (32)

Designing Augmented Reality Systems to Empower People with Low Vision

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livestreamOn Thursday October 22 2020 at 7pm EDT / 23:00 UTC / 8am JST (Fri) the Accessibility VR Meetup hosts ‘Designing Augmented Reality Systems to Empower People with Low Vision‘ on Mozilla Hubs.

Low vision is a visual impairment that falls short of blindness but cannot be corrected by eyeglasses or contact lenses. Unlike people who are blind, low vision people have residual vision and extensively use their vision in daily activities. However, prior research has mainly focused on providing only audio and tactile feedback for blind users, overlooking low vision people’s residual vision and unique needs. To address this gap in low vision accessibility, Yuhang Zhao, a postdoctoral researcher at Cornell Tech, seeks to leverage the residual vision that low vision people have, and design intelligent augmented reality (AR) systems that provide direct visual augmentations according to the users’ visual abilities and tasks.

LIVESTREAM: https://livestream.com/internetsociety/a11yvr10

PARTICIPATE: https://hubs.mozilla.com/G6edX79/a11yvr-project/

REAL TIME TEXT: https://www.streamtext.net/player?event=a11yvr

TWITTER: @a11yvr  @YuhangZhao1

SIMULCASTS:
https://youtu.be/xwWx5B_W0AI

https://www.pscp.tv/ISOC_Live/
https://www.twitch.tv/isoclive

ARCHIVE
https://archive.org/details/a11yvr10

12:00 pm on September 24, 2020 · a11y (127), a11ysig (75), a11yvr (32), altVR (1), virtual reality (3)

WEBCAST TODAY: Inspiring Accessibility Solutions from Today’s Virtual Reality Experiences – – Thomas Logan @TechThomas @KingstonCreates @AltspaceVR #a11y @A11ySIG #VR

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On Thursday September 24 at 6pm EDT / 22:00 UTC / 7am JST (Fri) the Accessibility VR Meetup hosts ‘Inspiring Accessibility Solutions from Today’s Virtual Reality Experiences‘ in AltVR. Presenter Thomas Logan will highlight specific implementation examples from VR experiences that demonstrate a design solution that works for people with disabilities.

The session will be webcast live via a partnership with the Internet Society Accessibility SIG (A11ySIG).

LIVESTREAM: https://livestream.com/internetsociety/a11yvr9

PARTICIPATE VIA AltVR: https://bit.ly/2HtQ0i1 (AI Captions)

REAL TIME TEXT http://streamtext.net/player?event=a11yVR (human)

TWITTER: @a11yvr  @TechThomas @KingstonCreates @AltspaceVR #VR #a11y

SIMULCASTS:
https://youtu.be/IGTAprVOsnY
https://www.pscp.tv/ISOC_Live/
https://www.twitch.tv/isoclive

6:04 pm on August 27, 2020 · a11ym VR (1), a11yvr (32), human interfaces (1)

WEBCAST TODAY: A11yVR – The Way for the #VR World : FOR EVERYONE! – Nicolas Perret @a11yvr @SurFuFu1 @3dRudder

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LivestreamOn Thursday August 27 2020 at 6pm EDT / 22:00 UTC / 7am JST (Fri) the Accessibility VR Meetup hosts ‘The Way for the VR World : FOR EVERYONE!‘ on Mozilla Hubs. Presenter Nicolas Perret is an engineer who has developed several successful video game interfaces. He will discuss novel ways of accessible VR interaction.

LIVESTREAM: https://livestream.com/internetsociety/a11yvr8

PARTICIPATE: https://hubs.mozilla.com/G6edX79/a11yvr-project/

TWITTER: @a11yvr @SurFuFu1 @3dRudder #VR

SIMULCASTS:
https://youtu.be/bBP_MiWvLUY
https://www.pscp.tv/ISOC_Live/
https://www.twitch.tv/isoclive

7:26 pm on July 16, 2020 · a11yvr (32), hacking (2)

WEBCAST TODAY: From Hack to Product Feature – how to leverage R&D at work through hackathons – Roland Dubois @A11yVR @AllySIG @rolanddubois #WebXR #XRAccess #XR #a11y

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livestreamOn Thursday July 16 2020 at 7pm EDT / 23:00 UTC / 8am JST (Fri) the Accessibility VR Meetup hosts ‘From Hack to Product Feature – how to leverage R&D at work through hackathons‘ on Mozilla Hubs. Creating open-source projects in hackathons to test the viability of an idea/concept, as well as user-test for accessibility, is a great way for team leaders to empower their employees to grow, take ownership and make better products. Hackathons are naturally competitive and creative environments that are time capped, exerting positive pressure on the participants to deliver results and win prices. Roland Dubois will show  accessible XR concepts that he built at the MIT Reality Hack in January 2020 and how it would convert into a new product feature at the SaaS company. The session will be webcast live via a partnership with the Internet Society Accessibility SIG (A11ySIG).

LIVESTREAM: https://livestream.com/internetsociety/a11yvr7 (open captions)

PARTICIPATE: https://hubs.mozilla.com/G6edX79/a11yvr-project/ (open captions)

REAL TIME TEXT: https://www.streamtext.net/player?event=a11yvr

TWITTER: @a11yvr  #WebXR @rolanddubois

SIMULCASTS
https://youtu.be/k16kIyFsviM
https://www.pscp.tv/ISOC_Live/
https://www.twitch.tv/isoclive

ARCHIVE
https://archive.org/details/a11yvr7

7:04 am on July 2, 2020 · a11y (127), a11ysig (75), a11yvr (32)

WEBCAST THURSDAY: Improving Mobility by Assisting Cognition: A Case Study w/ Romain Delgrange @A11yVR @AllySIG @romain_dlg #cognitivescience #XRAccess #XR #a11y

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livestreamOn Thursday July 1 2020 at 7am EDT (11:00 UTC) the Accessibility VR Meetup hosts ‘Improving Mobility by Assisting Cognition: A Case Study‘ on Mozilla Hubs. To date, existing navigational aids (mobile apps, GPS) remain weakly adapted to the cognitive needs of human beings. This is especially true for people with cognitive disabilities, who face specific difficulties when it comes to finding one’s way in the city. Romain Delgrange will present a new study assessing the effectiveness and usability of a prototypal aid designed to meet the needs of people with cognitive disabilities. The session will be webcast live via a partnership with the Internet Society Accessibility SIG (A11ySIG).

LIVESTREAM: https://livestream.com/internetsociety/a11yvr6 (open captions)

PARTICIPATE: https://hubs.mozilla.com/G6edX79/a11yvr-project/ (open captions)

REAL TIME TEXT: https://www.streamtext.net/player?event=a11yvr

TWITTER: @a11yvr #cognitivescience @romain_dlg

SIMULCASTS (open captions)
https://www.pscp.tv/ISOC_Live/
https://www.twitch.tv/isoclive
https://youtu.be/ro7DmEcAxE4

ARCHIVE
https://archive.org/details/a11yvr6

6:52 pm on June 18, 2020 · a11y (127), a11ysig (75), a11yvr (32), XR (11)

WEBCAST TODAY: Ideas for A11y Programs in XR Tech Companies w/ Bill Curtis-Davidson @A11yVR @AllySIG @BCurtisDavidson #XRAccess #XR #a11y

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livestreamOn Thursday June 18 2020 at 7pm EDT (23:00 UTC) the Accessibility VR Meetup hosts ‘Ideas for A11y Programs in XR Tech Companies‘ on Mozilla Hubs. Various community-driven efforts are actively working to define accessibility user requirements, practices, and guidance for XR technologies and experiences. Presenter Bill Curtis-Davidson will outline how XR technology companies can engage with these efforts and put in place accessibility programs to help make sure their products, content, and experiences are usable by the broadest number of users. The session will be webcast live via a partnership with the Internet Society Accessibility SIG (A11ySIG).

LIVESTREAM: https://livestream.com/internetsociety/a11yvr5 (open captions)

PARTICIPATE: https://hubs.mozilla.com/G6edX79/a11yvr-project/ (open captions)

REAL TIME TEXT: https://www.streamtext.net/player?event=a11yvr

TWITTER: @a11yvr #XRAccess @BCurtisDavidson

SIMULCASTS (open captions)
https://www.pscp.tv/ISOC_Live/
https://www.twitch.tv/isoclive
https://youtu.be/ajh_re9hows

6:42 am on June 4, 2020 · a11y (127), a11ysig (75), a11yvr (32)

WEBCAST TODAY: Designing a participatory design workshop w/ Indira Knight @A11yVR @AllySIG #gameChangeVR @HHCDesign @RCA

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livestreamOn Thursday June 4 2020 at 8pm JST (11:00 UTC) the Accessibility VR Meetup hosts ‘Designing a participatory design workshop‘ on Mozilla Hubs. When working on the design of gameChange, a VR program to help people with psychosis presenter Indira Knight, a healthcare researcher at the Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design at the Royal College of Art, developed a series of participatory design workshops to include people with lived experience of psychosis in the design process. In this workshop she will talk about some of the decisions that were made when designing the workshops, the development of the workshop materials and how they were run. The session will be webcast live via a partnership with the Internet Society Accessibility SIG (A11ySIG).

LIVESTREAM: https://livestream.com/internetsociety/a11yvr4

YOUTUBE: https://youtu.be/IYL_cK19ad8

PARTICIPATE: https://hubs.mozilla.com/G6edX79/a11yvr-project/

REAL TIME TEXT: https://www.streamtext.net/player?event=a11yvr

TWITTER: @a11yvr #gameChangeVR

6:16 pm on May 21, 2020 · a11y (127), a11ysig (75), a11yvr (32)

WEBCAST TODAY: @A11yVR – VR Interactions – A comparison between Gaze, Controller and Hand w/ Sam Qorbani @HSamarQ

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livestreamToday, Thursday May 21 2020 at 7pm EDT (23:00 UTC) the Accessibility VR Meetup hosts ‘VR Interactions – A comparison between Gaze, Controller and Hand‘ on Mozilla Hubs. Object selection and manipulation are an essential part of any Virtual Reality (VR) experience, and several studies are done every year to explore this area of technology. For the person(s) with a temporary or permanent physical disability, virtual reality (VR) means the potential to try activities which they usually cannot do in real life. However, the use of a controller can be challenging for certain users with limited hand/finger dexterity. Sam Qorbani will talk about how he is exploring object selection and manipulation using gaze-based/head tracking for Immersive Virtual Reality (IVR) environment using the Oculus Quest device. The session will be webcast live via a partnership with the Internet Society Accessibility SIG (A11ySIG).

LIVESTREAM: https://livestream.com/internetsociety/a11yvr3 (open captions)

YOUTUBE: https://youtu.be/fhtBit-O4YY (open captions)

PARTICIPATE: https://hubs.mozilla.com/G6edX79/a11yvr-project/ (open captions)

TWITTER: @a11yvr | #VRinteraction