[vip_students] Re: wii experience

Hi Joe and all,

Happy new year. You may find these 3 you tube videos of interest. They are a 
young guy named Chase who is blind describing and demonstrating the Wii and how 
a blind person may be able to use it. There are 3 videos, the first 2 go 
through the device itself and the hardware etc. and the third video is of Chase 
playing Wii Fit Tennis on the device. The first 2 videos start with an 
introduction from him which is the same in both videos just in case you think 
you've hit the same link twice. I can tell you from the you tube comments Chase 
has left that he does not have any useful vision. He has light perception level 
of vision, and some shadows. Everything he does to run the Wii is done by using 
sounds. I think they are interesting videos.

This is the first link describing the console.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrvKcd5ARVU


This is the second video describing the remote control.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6IoK7sRQBU&feature=channel

This is the third video demonstrating Wii Fit Tennis.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_Sl1KxcMpU&feature=channel

All the best,

Francis.
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: joe bollard 
  To: vip students 
  Sent: Monday, January 04, 2010 11:58 AM
  Subject: [vip_students] wii experience


  hello friends, and a happy new year to all on the list, perhaps i might get 
my legs slapped for this message, but it is about technology,and apologies if 
the message is somewhat long, over the christmas period i had my first 
experience with wii, to make a long story short, we had a christmas party at my 
son's house, he has two children, one aged ten and a little genius aged five, 
he is a computer wiz kid he was given a wii play station for christmas, this 
included a games section, during dinner he was telling me all about these 
wonderful games that one can play with wii, so after dinner we headed for the 
playroom, he explained to me about the games, "you couldn't play tennis 
granddad, because you can't see the ball bouncing but you could play golf,",, 
he then proceeded to explain to me about how the golf was set up, you have a 
piece of equipment like a remote control that is the golf club, when the screen 
is set up for golf you swing the remote and bring it through, you can
  hear the club hitting the ball, and it is here that you need sighted 
assistance, to tell you where the ball is situated, after a while ai grasped 
the idea, and eight of us started a golf tournament, putting  on the green 
requires a little skill, but i finished up fifth of eight in the tournament, 
but then we turned to ten pin bowling, fantastic, again using the remote as a 
bowling ball, [you don't let go of it when you bowl] you can hear the ball 
rolling down the lane, and hitting the skittles, there are ten skittles, and 
once again it's here you need sighted assistance to tell you how many skittles 
are left standing, my grandson then explained to me how you can bowl the ball 
down the right or left side of the lane, there arrow keys at the top of the 
remote, if you want to knock the left skittle down you press the left arrow 
wait for it, i finished second of eight in the bowling tournament, and  it was 
fantastic to be able to join in the games with the rest of the sighted p
 layers now i am interested in taking a look at the wii fit, it's a keep fit 
programme  and i want to see if it's blind friendly i need to get rid of some 
excess weight provided by mince pies, christmas pudding, chocolates etc, but 
this wii experience was a great bit of fun, has anyone on the list had any 
experience of it, sorry for the long narative, take care, travel safely, joe.

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