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<generator>Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/</generator><item><title><![CDATA[Virtually leading the blind]]></title><link>http://massively.joystiq.com/2009/04/03/virtually-leading-the-blind/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://massively.joystiq.com/2009/04/03/virtually-leading-the-blind/</guid><comments>http://massively.joystiq.com/2009/04/03/virtually-leading-the-blind/#comments</comments><description><![CDATA[<p>Filed under: <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/betas/" rel="tag">Betas</a>, <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/culture/" rel="tag">Culture</a>, <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/news-items/" rel="tag">News items</a>, <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/opinion/" rel="tag">Opinion</a>, <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/second-life/" rel="tag">Second Life</a>, <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/virtual-worlds/" rel="tag">Virtual worlds</a></p><div align="center"><img vspace="4" hspace="4" border="1" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/massively.joystiq.com/media/2009/04/tan-max-the-vhh-virtual-guide-dog1-580.jpg" alt="" /></div>
<p>Virtual environments are an extraordinarily useful piece of technology, being that they possess most of the qualities of the atomic world (obviously barring physical substance and fine granularity) at an infinitesimal fraction of the cost of the real thing. As a primarily visual medium, however, what do you do if you're blind or significantly visually impaired yet still want to use <a href="http://secondlife.com/"><em>Second Life</em></a>?</p>
<p>Well, one option is <a target="_blank" href="http://textsl.org/">TextSL</a>, but then there's Max. Max is a virtual guide-dog to allow the visually impaired to interact more readily in what is primarily a visual environment.</p><p><a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/2009/04/03/virtually-leading-the-blind/" rel="bookmark">Continue reading <em>Virtually leading the blind</em></a></p><p style="padding:5px;background:#ffffcc;border:1px solid #ffff99;clear:both;"><a href="http://massively.joystiq.com"><img src="http://massively.joystiq.com/media/feedlogo.gif" alt="Massively" style="float:left;padding:0 5px 5px 0;" /></a><a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/2009/04/03/virtually-leading-the-blind/">Virtually leading the blind</a> originally appeared on <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com">Massively</a> on Fri, 03 Apr 2009 09:00:00 EST.  Please see our <a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/">terms for use of feeds</a>.<br style="clear:both;"></p><h6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"></h6><a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/2009/04/03/virtually-leading-the-blind/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry">Permalink</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/forward/1506966/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email">Email this</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/2009/04/03/virtually-leading-the-blind/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry">Comments</a>]]></description><category>accessibility</category><category>betas</category><category>blindness</category><category>chade-villota</category><category>charles-mountain</category><category>culture</category><category>opinion</category><category>second-ability</category><category>second-life</category><category>textsl</category><category>virtual-guide-dog</category><category>virtual-helping-hands</category><category>virtual-worlds</category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Tateru Nino]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2009 09:00:00 EST</pubDate></item></channel></rss>
