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Wayfinder

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This single-player VR game provides an impaired-vision experience, using tactile and auditory feedback from a virtual “guide cane”, to navigate through mazes. Players experience up to five different (and increasingly difficult) visual impairments and sharpen their senses of touch and sound to complete the mazes. Players also observe “vision” in the way that millions of people around the world with visual impairments do, creating opportunities to empathize with those who deal with such visual impairments on a daily basis.

Game Overview

Seeing your way through the mazes isn’t an option. In Wayfinder, players sharpen their tactile and auditory senses (using haptic and auditory feedback) to complete the mazes. Along the way, players “walk a mile in another’s shoes”; they gain perspective about the way millions of people who suffer from significant visual impairments get around on a daily basis, developing empathy in the process.

The player is challenged to navigate five mazes, using progressively more difficult visual impairments each time.

Wayfinder is intended primarily for a general audience without visual impairment. However, people who are experiencing vision loss, especially at the early stages of a known progressive condition, may benefit significantly from Wayfinder’s emphasis on sharpening tactile and auditory sense skills, as these skills could be necessary as their visual impairment progresses.

The main goal of Wayfinder is for the player to experience five visual impairments, and to test their skill at using non-visual feedback to complete the maze. If players want to compete against themselves and improve their skills, the timer will reflect achievements through faster completion times.

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