Second Life and Disabilities RE-Revisited
Posted in 3D Social Networks, Avatar Photos, Science, Second Life, Web 2.0, Widgets by wayne.porter on July 22nd, 2007 Amazingly since my talk last fall with FEZ Rutherford on 2nd life and how it might simulate or emulate disabilities or physical malady. I have ran not only into avatars with many disabilities, but continue to find media mention of them. It makes perfect sense. They are liberated and can move freely. Sadly enough I have found several in stage III and stage IV cancer.
- EurekaStreet, or this piece, or his own
“his visual impairment should be based on experiences a friend of hers told her about. She provided me with some images that show how this friend sees the world (see comments on the linked post). Now I did a first prove of concept to see if one could replicate this impairment in Second Life. On the right hand you see screenshots with and without an attack. So it works…
I just have to finish the effect and then we will have a new version of 2nDisability ready
Bleys and I have both thought how to integrate the research features into the HUD and if FEZ is not around, I will see if I can find Griefer Marky E who is a very talented person at such.
And more on FEZ’s blog’s commented “Hi - I just launched a new site in SL AskPatty I support the UnitedSpinal.org Foundation and my son is a para and just started using Second Life to get the Second Life experience.”
Great work you are doing here I am going to blog about you on www.askpatty.com today!
Jody DeVere
President
AskPatty.com
“Get the Second Life Experience”? I think if you walk through a ward of little kids in end stage leukemia, pulling around IV poles with no hair. Let them play.
Again after years of being a medical professional, and having the lights turned around on me at a Summit while having a seizure I once got a bitter taste of what it is often like to walk in someone’s shoes and failed to appreciate the people’s quandry I served all those years. Maybe this will be a unique window, and who knows, maybe I can get a company to ante up some funds to help develop out these social concepts. We will see. There is goodwill out there. I truly believe it.
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