<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">You might <a href="https://appleinsider.com/inside/xros">have read</a> how Apple changed it's plan to call its VR operating system xrOS to visionOS. It was probably because of the strong existing XROS community. Here we see three of their projects</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"></div><br><div class="msg4329213681607864675"><u></u>
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<p style="font-family:-apple-system,system-ui,blinkmacsystemfont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,Oxygen-Sans,Ubuntu,Cantarell,"Helvetica Neue",sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-weight:400;margin:0;line-height:1.7;padding:0;color:#101517;margin-bottom:24px"><a href="https://isoc.live/16739" style="color:#007117;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank"><img src="https://isoc.live/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/a11yvr31-300x169.png" alt="isoc live" width="300" height="169" style="max-width:100%;margin-bottom:24px;clear:both;float:right;margin-left:1em;padding:4px;background-color:white;border:1px solid #ccc"></a>On <strong>Thursday, August 17, 2023</strong> at <strong>11:00 EDT / 15:00 UTC / 00:00 JST (Aug 18)</strong> the <strong><a href="https://www.meetup.com/A11yVR/" style="color:#007117;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">Accessibility VR Meetup</a></strong> hosts '<strong><a href="https://www.meetup.com/a11yvr/events/294791838/" style="color:#007117;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">Report on XR Access XR Open Source Projects</a></strong>' with three presentations from the <strong><a href="https://xrosfellowship.ficci.in/" style="color:#007117;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">XROS Fellowship Program</a></strong> involved in open source projects done in collaboration with <strong><a href="https://equalentry.com/" style="color:#007117;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">Equal Entry</a></strong> and <strong><a href="https://xraccess.org/workstreams/prototype-for-the-people/" style="color:#007117;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">XR Access's Prototype for the People</a></strong>.</p>
<p style="font-family:-apple-system,system-ui,blinkmacsystemfont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,Oxygen-Sans,Ubuntu,Cantarell,"Helvetica Neue",sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-weight:400;margin:0;line-height:1.7;padding:0;color:#101517;margin-bottom:24px"><strong>1. Developing an Open Source Caption System for XR in Unity</strong><br><strong><a href="https://savi.ooo/" style="color:#007117;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">Savio Menifer</a></strong> shares his insights on using Chirp, an open-source caption system for extended reality projects developed in Unity.</p>
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<p style="font-family:-apple-system,system-ui,blinkmacsystemfont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,Oxygen-Sans,Ubuntu,Cantarell,"Helvetica Neue",sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-weight:400;margin:0;line-height:1.7;padding:0;color:#101517;margin-bottom:24px">The session will be webcast live via a partnership with the <strong><a href="https://a11ysig.org" style="color:#007117;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">Internet Society New York Chapter Accessibility SIG</a></strong> (A11ySIG).</p>
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