The Gamers with Glasses Show, Episode 12: The VR and Accessibility Episode!

In this episode of The Gamers with Glasses Show, we’re joined by special guest Dr. Amanda Licastro, Emerging & Digital Literacy Instructional Designer at University of Pennsylvania. Most of our discussion is focused on accessibility, virtual reality, and alternate reality games (ARG), but we do manage to squeeze in some conversation about Subnautica: Below Zero and Superhot. We spend a lot of time talking about how to introduce students to video games, including what platforms and hardware students have access to (hint: mobile is really important!), how to get them into VR, and what we want them to get out of gaming experiences. We touch on hearing and vision impairments and how to make sure that VR and ARG experiences aren’t exclusionary and we also reflect on some of the ideologies and fantasies surrounding virtual reality (think Ready Player One).