Host: Phelan Corrimal (Kevin Feenan)
Producer: Bevan Whitfield (Elisa Butler)

In Conversation: Alice Krueger (Gentle Heron)

Found in Translation

Friday, December 1, 2017 – 3:00PM SL/PST (6:00PM EST/11:00PM UK – December 2, 12:00AM CET)
SLURL: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Rockcliffe%20Library/243/12/29

Inside The Avatar’s Studio brings together innovative leaders from the virtual technology frontier to discuss perceptions, perspectives, and predictions of what ‘being virtual’ means in today’s society.
Host Kevin Feenan and guest Alice Krueger will discuss current issues and trends surrounding the implications virtual experiences have for people with disabilities and the affordances that virtual reality opens new opportunities to redefine the question: “What is normal, anyway?”

Ms. Krueger is President of the nonprofit Virtual Ability, Inc., and the founder of the Virtual Ability community. As a woman with Multiple Sclerosis, she found it increasingly difficult to participate in her real life community as her disability progressed. No longer able to leave home to work, volunteer, or socialize with friends, she turned to virtual worlds to fulfill these basic human needs.

Our past guests have included: Robert Bloomfield, Beverly McCarter, Jessica Lyon, Lauren Weyland, AJ Kelton, Maria Korolov, Malburns Writer, Ham Rambler, Bernard Drax and Daniel Moshel,Terry Beaubois, Botgirl Questi, Doug Thompson, Gentle Heron, Dick Dillon, Chestnet Rau, Ian Hughes, Dave Levinson, Will Burns, Pooky Amsterdam, Tim “Digistar” Goree, Wiz Nordberg, Joel Foner, Chris Collins, Andrew Hughes, John Lester.. and panel topics such as Social Communications, Avatar the Movie, Virtual Frontier Panel and VWBPE…

Join our studio audience in Second Life https://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Rockcliffe%20Library/243/12/ or watch live on Rockcliffe’s YouTube channel https://gaming.youtube.com/urockcliffe (with many archived videos to revisit!)

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