Blind Burners (‘BB’ ) is a UK-registered Community Interest Company founded with a mission to catalyse change across the creative industries, focused initially on video games, Virtual Reality, and creator tools such as Unity and Unreal Engine.
Sponsorship
We would be delighted to speak with companies in the creative industries and technology sector about possibilties for becoming a corporate sponsor of Blind Burners.
Accessibility Consulting
Our members have considerable experience in digital accessibility consulting, as well as lived experience of the consequences of design choices that exclude input from disabled users. If you would like to get a professional insight into how well you website or apps are performing from an accessibility perspective, we would be delighted to speak with you.
Technology Projects
Our team’s expertise in digital accessibility is boosted by our own innovative tech projects, in which we’ve seen first hand the challenges of maintaining accessibility in digital platforms.
Recent Virtual Reality projects include:
- Blind Burners Art World – the world’s first VR art gallery showcasing audio-described art by blind artists
- Blind Burners Playa Experience – a pioneering experience in which participants learn to use sound to navigate a journey from Earth to the outer planets, and back to the Sun, represented by an interactive gong bath.
Altspace VR, the platform on which we built these experiences, closed down in March 2023. We are evaluating alternatives and will restore our worlds as soon as possible, so that we can resume onboarding blind and low vision communities, and educating our friends in the tech industry.
Developing Careers
Blind Burners projects in the physical world include:
- London pilot for a global network of monthly in-person gaming and VR meetups focused on connecting sighted and non-sighted gamers around shared interest in gaming, new technology, art, sound and dance.
- Delegations of blind and low vision gamers to industry events – EGX 2022 and in July 2023 Brighton Develop.
BB believes that fundamental change in accessibility and inclusion will be driven by blind and low vision gamers entering the games industry. Blind talent will drive innovation across engineering, design, management, sound design, art and VFX. Ultimately, we envisage an award-winning commercial game studio driven by innovative play mechanics that bring together sighted and non-sighted audiences together.
