Cornell University students Lucy Jiang, Ria Gualano, and Kexin Zhang are conducting a research study on invisible disability representation via avatars in social VR. They are looking for folks who identify as having an invisible disability to participate in this study, which consists of an hour-long interview, in exchange for a $20 Amazon gift card.Continue reading “Study Researching Invisible Disability Representation in Social VR Seeking Participants”
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Spatial.io is our New Home
The news of Altspace’s closure hit us hard, but it is our very nature as spoonies to adapt and persevere, and we have selected Spatial as our new home!
Introducing the SpoonieVR Podcast!
This is the introductory episode for the new SpoonieVR podcast!
Horizon Worlds Lacks Accessibility for Deaf & Hard-of-Hearing
This is an open letter to please add live automated speech recognition (ASR) to display captioning in Horizon. The technology exists but I am seeing comments that it is just not considered a high priority for the full release of this app. Can we petition to change this?
A Spoonie’s Guide to VR
The majority VR games require movement, and I know that can really whittle away at spoons fast. Throughout my time in VR, I’ve explored as many experiences and games as I could get my virtual hands on, and I thought it might be useful for my fellow spoonies to have a reference guide of reviews for each of the games I’ve tried, complete with a rating of 1-5 spoons indicating how much energy a game takes to play.
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