• Tech and Disability: What VR Offers the Disabled Community with Sunny Ammerman

  • Mar 19 2024
  • Length: 1 hr and 10 mins
  • Podcast

Tech and Disability: What VR Offers the Disabled Community with Sunny Ammerman

  • Summary

  • Monica Michelle is joined by artist and disability advocate Sunny Ammerman


    Sunny lives with Septo-optic dysplasia, panhypopituitarism, Optic Nerve Hypoplasia, and is missing a membrane in the brain called the "septum pellucidum".


    In this episode, Monica and Sunny discuss:

    • Sunny’s complex disorders and how she copes with them
    • Everything VR provides from accessible gaming, social platforms and the potential for better online education.
    • Various VR/AR games and their gameplay
    • Sunny’s VR support group




    TIMESTAMPS

    00:45 - What VR/AR offers for chronically ill and disabled folks

    11:57 - Sunny’s conditions and how she copes with them

    17:55 - Features that make VR games accessible or inaccessible as well as different games and their play experiences

    37:13 - The social aspects of virtual gaming

    51:32 - What opportunities VR has for the future

    1:04:49 - Sunny’s VR support group


    The full transcript and all links mentioned can be found on the episode page on invisiblenotbroken.com


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