Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ogicse!milton!esdvt@esdvt.esd.sgi.com From: esdvt@esdvt.esd.sgi.com (ESD DVT) Newsgroups: sci.virtual-worlds Subject: Re: VR and the handicapped Message-ID: <9961@milton.u.washington.edu> Date: 25 Oct 90 00:03:50 GMT Sender: hlab@milton.u.washington.edu Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc., Mountain View, CA. Lines: 11 Approved: hitl@hardy.u.washington.edu Why wouldn't people who are visually handicapped just have the dead nerves or whatever was failing bypassed by hardware so they could "see" I think that as stuff like socketing in prosthetics becomes more viable this sort of thing would be possible? any flames/comments/support? Ben Pappas pigboy%esdvt.esd@sgi.com I have no opinions, neither does Silicon Graphics