[games_access] SIMVIZ

[Barrie Ellis]

Wow. You're always on the cutting edge of some really cool access ideas,
Eelke. I'd never heard of Google Cardboard before. All over eBay in cheap
kit form I see.

That would be such a brilliant thing to enable people to cheaply build a
simulator for sight conditions. Can you say why it would be a problem to
release? Licensing issues or hardware inconsistency?

Best wishes,

Barrie



On 24 August 2014 00:21, Eelke Folmer <eelke.folmer at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Barrie,
>
> Thanks for mentioning this project. I also made an app version for Google
> Cardboard <https://cardboard.withgoogle.com/>, which you can use with any
> Android smartphone, though I am not sure if I will be able to release that.
>
> best Eelke
>
> Dr. Eelke Folmer
> Visiting Scientist - Google Research
> Assoc. Professor HCI - Computer Science - University of Nevada
> http://eelke.com
>
>
>
> On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 2:02 AM, Ian Hamilton <i_h at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>>  Looks fantastic
>>
>>  Also for in the field when this kind of thing isn't feasible, a tool
>> I've found really useful is colorblindness simulators for smartphones, eg.
>> https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.SeewaldSolutions.ColorBlindnessSimulator&hl=en_GB
>>
>>  Also +1 for Cambridge's equipment, the gloves are a bit of a pain to
>> get set up properly but the glasses are great (and relatively cheap), great
>> enough that people keep stealing mine!
>>
>>  Ian
>>
>>
>>
>> ----- Reply message -----
>> From: "Barrie Ellis" <barrie.ellis at oneswitch.org.uk>
>> To: "IGDA Games Accessibility SIG Mailing List" <games_access at igda.org>
>> Subject: [games_access] SIMVIZ
>> Date: Thu, Aug 21, 2014 09:00
>>
>>  Just seen Eelke Folmer's latest video:
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQ6fehkula8
>>
>>  What a brilliant idea. Using an adapted Oculus Rift, you can simulate a
>> range of sight impairments/conditions almost as if you had them.
>>
>>  Great one to add to the Cambridge Simulation Gloves repertoire, etc. to
>> get across some of the game design barriers disabled people are facing.
>>
>>  (Few more links to that kind of stuff here:
>> http://switchgaming.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/game-accessibility-event-resources.html -
>> and I know people have been doing this for decades, but maybe not enough in
>> gaming).
>>
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