Our second accessibility event of the day! This is an apt follow up to last month's A11yVR, which explored how people with visual impairment can augment their vision. (Read the transcript <https://archive.org/download/a11yvr10/a11yVR10_TRANSCRIPT.pdf>!) but also briefly alluded to the CaneTroller <https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/enabling-people-visual-impairments-navigate-virtual-reality-haptic-auditory-cane-simulation-2/>, a white cane for virtual worlds. Incidentally, VR props to ISOC Middle East, who used Mozilla Hubs for the networking sessions <https://archive.org/download/mena2020/EN04_Internet_Society_Hub_Tour.mp4> during their recent Chapter Workshop. ISOC Live posted: "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 media" <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/a11yvr11>On *Thursday Nov 19 2020* at* 1pm EST / 18:00 UTC / 3am JST* (Fri) the *Accessibility VR Meetup <https://www.meetup.com/A11yVR/>* hosts '*Haptics for XR – How designing great haptics can support use case accessibilit*y' 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 <https://www.interhaptics.com/>* haptic composer. The session will be webcast live via a partnership with the *Internet Society Accessibility SIG* (A11ySIG). *LIVESTREAM: https://livestream.com/internetsociety/a11yvr11 <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/a11yvr11>* (open captions) *PARTICIPATE: https://hubs.mozilla.com/G6edX79/a11yvr-project/ <https://hubs.mozilla.com/G6edX79/a11yvr-project/>* (open captions) *REAL TIME TEXT: https://www.streamtext.net/player?event=a11yvr <https://www.streamtext.net/player?event=a11yvr>* *TWITTER: @a11yvr <http://bit.ly/A11yVR> #haptics <https://isoc.live/?taxonomy=post_tag&term=haptics> #XR <https://isoc.live/?taxonomy=post_tag&term=xr> @GoTouchVR* *SIMULCASTS* (open captions) *https://www.pscp.tv/ISOC_Live/ <https://www.pscp.tv/ISOC_Live/>* *https://www.twitch.tv/isoclive <https://www.twitch.tv/isoclive>* *https://youtu.be/U_zOqehH_Gs <https://youtu.be/U_zOqehH_Gs>* *ARCHIVE https://archive.org/details/a11yvr11 <https://archive.org/details/a11yvr11>* Comment <https://isoc.live/12954/#respond> See all comments <https://isoc.live/12954/#comments> *Permalink* https://isoc.live/12954/ -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +12185659365 -------------------------------------- -