Re: Steam might have just revolutionized VR for visually impaired people.

Re: Steam might have just revolutionized VR for visually impaired people. But like I stated VR has been around since, in one form or another, 1990 at least with the infamous Nintendo Virtual Boy, a console that pretty much may have actually ironically contributed to blindness with its

Re: Steam might have just revolutionized VR for visually impaired people.

Re: Steam might have just revolutionized VR for visually impaired people. Valve might also come across this and threads like this, see the page long poorly spelled bitch fests and get turned right off. Justsayin. VR tech might have also stood a better chance if Oculus and others hadn't

Re: Steam might have just revolutionized VR for visually impaired people.

Re: Steam might have just revolutionized VR for visually impaired people. WellVR's been around since the Vitual Boy (and what a flop that was) so it's nothing new honestly, and with Oculus's recent legal troublesand HTC being backed by ValveI'm not sure a new startup is going

Re: Steam might have just revolutionized VR for visually impaired people.

Re: Steam might have just revolutionized VR for visually impaired people. @ironcross32Yes and no, the defining characteristic of VR/AR is that its visually! immersive, purely audio based applications have different requirements and would be both simpler and less expensive as all you'd need

Re: Steam might have just revolutionized VR for visually impaired people.

Re: Steam might have just revolutionized VR for visually impaired people. Regarding valve giving no shit to client accessibility: It's  absolutely expected. It's how business and  technology work. Basically, instead of  rant posts  such as post 3 We would need to have more video games

Re: Steam might have just revolutionized VR for visually impaired people.

Re: Steam might have just revolutionized VR for visually impaired people. The thing being is that you need a computer with hardware being able to render a constant 90 FPS for VR or the experience not only becomes unsteady, but sighted people get really screwed up over it. But we'd probably

Re: Steam might have just revolutionized VR for visually impaired people.

Re: Steam might have just revolutionized VR for visually impaired people. never mind vr, this could be the kind of thing that makes an audio game sound really... really good. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=299412#p299412

Re: Steam might have just revolutionized VR for visually impaired people.

Re: Steam might have just revolutionized VR for visually impaired people. The library isn't dependant on Steam to use, so it could be used just by itself, with Occulus or any other VR headset independant of Steam. Course, the whole VR scene's kind of screwed up, they're trying to push

Re: Steam might have just revolutionized VR for visually impaired people.

Re: Steam might have just revolutionized VR for visually impaired people. Yeah cool and all but Valve don't give a shit about us, never have and I don't see it changing any time soon, so who's gonna buy the hardware just to fight with accessibility issues with the client. URL: http

Re: Steam might have just revolutionized VR for visually impaired people.

Re: Steam might have just revolutionized VR for visually impaired people. [[wow]], how not cool!Not cool?Who is going to shell out the expence for vr tech when valve shows no interest in making the client even accessible.True we can jump through hoops to make it but its hit and miss

Re: Steam might have just revolutionized VR for visually impaired people.

Re: Steam might have just revolutionized VR for visually impaired people. Good gosh the part where it sounds like it's coming from above, and also, in the second, the one where it's echoing from very far away! URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=299357#p299357

Steam might have just revolutionized VR for visually impaired people.

Steam might have just revolutionized VR for visually impaired people. (I've just found this from a video gaming community forum, cheers to them for posting it)Steam just introduced Steam Audio, an SDK that in my opinion will bring  us much, much more closer to VR technology!Brace