08-17-2017 04:07 AM
12-16-2019 06:17 AM
I too am
badly partially sighted and love VR
and also developing in VR the problem is reading any text in VR like the menus
or in game.
I can only
get around this by one of two things.
1. I stream the Quest to a tablet or
ChrimcastV3 to a TV and someone reads to me what I am seeing and maybe want to
click or setup.
2. I use an adb command to capture a
screenshot and then zoom into that picture on the pc.
All very bad and accessibility discriminating. Think about all android
phones now, they have TTS, zoom and are user friendly. This has to come somehow
to VR, so Oculus come on and change the game and be the first to help the
disabled.
A very simple way to just get us in for the beginning would be to let us
use a fly-around the menu camera and be able to get really close.
At the moment with tracking we can move ourselves physically towards the
menu, get closer to read but then you decided to fade out because we are
getting to close. Don’t fade, let us get as close as we like. Best would be lit
us fly.
Nicer would be to actually activate TTS, so that menu items or even text
in games can be read out to us. Android can do this already but you can’t.
Another way would be here as mentioned. Zooming in to your text in the environment.
This would just be actually being able
to move the camera around where you like while holding a button. That way I don’t
have to move myself closer to the text.
I can already do all that in my own unity project using some plugins but I cannot use your home screen. So let me build my own home screen .
Also being able to change all the Quest settings in the Android app or
PC app would be great too.
I am going to keep at this and post to other forums and pray that
something better can be done for people with bad eyesight or like me with
really bad eyesight.
Thank you all for any help or
suggestions here. I will try anything.
12-16-2019 12:20 PM
Yahoo, yes and yes. I have just tried out the oculus link cable mode (pc stream to Quest) and this is
a slightly different menu but as partially sighted you can pull the menus and settings
bar towards you and place them as you like. You can even overlay them and pin
them around you if you want. I can even pull them like a few millimetres in
front of my nose. I can see now a lot more and can orientate myself around the
menus and settings, but I am extremely partially sighted and could still do
with a bigger text or when so close just click the text and TTS should read it
back to me. That would be a game changer for me and others but also a bit of
magic.
This makes it for the very first time for someone with sight problems to
actually pull the menu closer and read them.
This however does not work yet in the standard home screen but I will
write to Oculus and beg them to carry on with this super new feature that
actually helps the disabled to use Oculus Quest and maybe other products from
Oculus.
Thank you Oculus and please listen when I write to you soon.
I will be making a complete video tomorrow of this and how I use VR with
Oculus as a nearly blind person. And yes there still needs to be more done but
I know now that Oculus are on the way just like Xbox is.
I will post the video link here tomorrow
12-25-2020 12:26 PM
so many years later and Just as I thought
facebook is not interested in helping with making the oculus accessible to
partially sighted people.
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05-07-2021 03:17 AM
I don’t get this. It is soo simple to add a zoom feautre or bring the screen closer in quest 2, but nothing has been done. This angers me on a deep level. It feels like we have been left to suffer. Shame on oculus for not adding any Zoom accessibilities.
05-07-2021 03:23 AM
Give us zoom accessibility.