Royal National Institute of Blind People's Twitch Livestreams Shows What It's Like to Game …

The activation from The&Partnership launches the new initiative ‘Design for Every Gamer’ (DFEG)Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB) and The&Partnership have launched a new initiative – Design for Every Gamer – to challenge perceptions and create real change in the world of gaming.To launch the initiative, RNIB and The&Partnership have joined with sighted and blind and partially sighted gamers on livestreaming platform Twitch. Together, the gamers will play popular video games and have an honest conversation about this very real issue in real-time.To make this experience as authentic as possible, VFX company, The Mill, has created five different sight loss condition filters, with the help of experts at RNIB. These filters work via cameras and respond to gaze and head tracking. The sighted gamers’ screen is hacked with these filters, so they can experience first-hand the challenges for themselves. They range from partial sight conditions like retinitis pigmentosa, to showing the experience with little to no useful vision, demonstrating the full range of issues.A study into accessible gaming, conducted in March 2022 by RNIB1, in partnership with Goldsmiths, University of London and The University of Edinburgh, found that more than 70% of game developers would like to see sharing
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