An Illegally Sighted Look at VR Accessibility

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Reports hands-on testing with Oculus Rift, Oculus Touch and mobile Google Cardboard and finds VR can work for low vision but most apps break accessibility when menus or tutorials are fixed at a distance. Demonstrates leaning plus a recenter button lets low-vision users read UI, and shows binaural audio and narrated tutorials help blind users. Recommends head-tracking from start to close, external pre-launch settings screen, multiple locomotion options (teleport vs free) and platform text-to-speech APIs.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 3:28INTRODUCTION TO VR
3. 6:09VR APPLICATIONS & USES
4. 7:29WHY VR ACCESSIBILITY?
5. 10:14AREAS OF VR ACCESSIBILITY FOR LOW VISION
6. 13:38CRYSTAL RIFT
7. 14:10FONT FACE, SIZE, & CONTRAST
8. 15:46OTHER VISUAL UI ACCESSIBILITY
9. 18:37LOCOMOTION/MOVEMENT
10. 22:03MOVEMENT & HEAD TRACKING
11. 24:23SETTINGS/OPTIONS OUTSIDE OF APP
12. 26:39DIFFICULTY SETTINGS
13. 29:12FUTURE OF VR
14. 33:49SUMMARY
15. 35:46Q&A AND CONTACT INFO

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