Mark Steelman is a XR Access Working Group Member and Senior Unity Engineer at Transfr, which uses virtual reality to "train people for well-paying careers available now in high-demand fields." Steelman was at XR Access showing off some of the accessibility features of their VR training software that includes captions, height adjustments, spatial audio, and arrows as audio cues or a way to direct attention. He was soliciting feedback from XR Access attendees to add even more features to ensure that people of all abilities are able to get employed. He also facilitated a group discussion about the potential of using virtual reality for career exploration explicitly for folks who have a variety of different disabilities to be able to explore whether or not certain jobs would be accessible to them, as well as the potential future where VR training or practice-based embodied experiences could help assess someone's ability to do a job that would allow some folks with disabilities to demonstrate their competency without having to disclose their disability and potentially face discrimination. Steelman also shares some of the feedback and insights from the XR Access break-out session on using XR for career exploration that he moderated.











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