A Second Life viewer tailored to the disabled is also in the works. Donna Davis, … from the University of Oregon, and her colleague Tom Boellstorff, an anthropologist from the University of California, Irvine, have a National Science Foundation grant to build one that will improve the experience for the blind and the deaf.

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