The VR Accessibility Kit: Tech Demo
Channel: Alex Legg
Date: 23/10/2019

The VR Accessibility Kit is prototype concept for a series of tools that provided low vision and blind accessibility for VR. This is a research project from my Master of Design degree. Features include:

Near Touch, a haptic representation of the subtle change of air movement as your hand (or other body parts)  gets closer to an object.

Audio Haptic Materials. Creation of different materials haptically and audibly. Dragging your hand across a surface also produces different results.

Audio Description. Reaching out and touching an object give you an audio description. 

Active Echo Location.  Similar to sonar or Motion Tracking, you have the ability to detect how far away objects are, the closer they are the more frequent the beeps and haptics are.

Raindar. Professor John Hull said "If only rain could fall inside a room, it would help me to understand where things are in that room, to give a sense of being in the room". Raindar does just that, the acoustic properties of rain can be summoned, bringing a room to life, acoustically. 

Dynamic Room Modelling. Set up and modelling of rooms for accurate acoustics, so the audio reflections can be accurately represented,  to offer an acoustic understanding and some navigation abilities.