Virtual Concert Experience with Wizard Apprentice
January 14th 2021
6pm-7pm
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Wizard Apprentice (pronouns she and/or they) is a songwriter, performer, and video artist who co-runs an experimental music label, Ratskin Records. She and her labelmates are designing a mixed reality events venue that centers accessibility. There’s still a lot of fundraising, testing, and design work to do before the venue can actually serve the diverse range of physical, emotional, psychological orientations of event goers. In the meantime, those who can access the first iteration of this on-going project are invited to check it out. Wa Na Wari is hosting a performance and exhibit by Wizard Apprentice which will take place in a virtual venue created in Mozilla Hubs, which can be experienced via laptop, smartphone, or Occulus VR headset. If you’ve played Animal Crossing or Minecraft, Mozilla Hubs is similar. Wizard Apprentice will orient you and take you on a tour of the space. There’ll be opportunities to explore, mingle, and attend a musical performance by Wizard Apprentice.
Wizard Apprentice and Ratskin Records are sharing this venue prototype with the intention of attracting more attention and funding. As the project budget increases, we can pay accessibility experts and web designers to create a more accessible space. Please feel free to contact us with any questions or feedback regarding access. Ig: @wizard.apprentice email: bossabot@gmail.com
Access Info:
-Attendees can choose an avatar and name that will allow them to enter the space. Some attendees may be anonymous.
-The site allows attendees to communicate with each other. You have the choice of speaking through the laptop and smartphone microphone or typing in a text box.
-Wizard Apprentice will use both spoken and written text to communicate with attendees.
-Performances will be captioned.
-Mozilla Hubs has built-in navigation features for blind and visually impaired users, however, Wizard Apprentice is new to web design and probably isn’t using those features correctly at this stage of the project. That means the venue is not likely to have effective image descriptions and may have competing sounds that make navigation difficult or unenjoyable.
-Laptop users: The current version of the venue requires the use of the keyboard (to move left/right/forward/back) and the mouse (to rotate the view, to move objects, and to click on links). Smart phone users: requires swiping left/right/up/down (to look or move in those directions) and swiping thumbs towards and away from each other to move closer or further from an object. VR Headset Users: The venue has not yet been tested using VR headsets. Feel free to try it out but at your own risk.
-There will be no strobe effects.
REGISTER
6pm-7pm
REGISTER
Wizard Apprentice (pronouns she and/or they) is a songwriter, performer, and video artist who co-runs an experimental music label, Ratskin Records. She and her labelmates are designing a mixed reality events venue that centers accessibility. There’s still a lot of fundraising, testing, and design work to do before the venue can actually serve the diverse range of physical, emotional, psychological orientations of event goers. In the meantime, those who can access the first iteration of this on-going project are invited to check it out. Wa Na Wari is hosting a performance and exhibit by Wizard Apprentice which will take place in a virtual venue created in Mozilla Hubs, which can be experienced via laptop, smartphone, or Occulus VR headset. If you’ve played Animal Crossing or Minecraft, Mozilla Hubs is similar. Wizard Apprentice will orient you and take you on a tour of the space. There’ll be opportunities to explore, mingle, and attend a musical performance by Wizard Apprentice.
Wizard Apprentice and Ratskin Records are sharing this venue prototype with the intention of attracting more attention and funding. As the project budget increases, we can pay accessibility experts and web designers to create a more accessible space. Please feel free to contact us with any questions or feedback regarding access. Ig: @wizard.apprentice email: bossabot@gmail.com
Access Info:
-Attendees can choose an avatar and name that will allow them to enter the space. Some attendees may be anonymous.
-The site allows attendees to communicate with each other. You have the choice of speaking through the laptop and smartphone microphone or typing in a text box.
-Wizard Apprentice will use both spoken and written text to communicate with attendees.
-Performances will be captioned.
-Mozilla Hubs has built-in navigation features for blind and visually impaired users, however, Wizard Apprentice is new to web design and probably isn’t using those features correctly at this stage of the project. That means the venue is not likely to have effective image descriptions and may have competing sounds that make navigation difficult or unenjoyable.
-Laptop users: The current version of the venue requires the use of the keyboard (to move left/right/forward/back) and the mouse (to rotate the view, to move objects, and to click on links). Smart phone users: requires swiping left/right/up/down (to look or move in those directions) and swiping thumbs towards and away from each other to move closer or further from an object. VR Headset Users: The venue has not yet been tested using VR headsets. Feel free to try it out but at your own risk.
-There will be no strobe effects.
REGISTER