well I actually tried sl with the radigast client today, and to be honest I'm not at all sure what exactly to do. I mean, is all you do on sl wandering around the locations that were created, maybe attending the occasional event?

Well, I tried it long time ago and I was stuck too so I can see nothing is changed. I know some users who are playing using other (probably official client) with objects like a cane etc cause SL originally contain sounds, ambiences etc so with this client you are missing so many features.

I find it so far quite not very efficient. Basicly to use something as far as I know, you got to use the object menue, and then press application key, pick an action, go to chat menue and see if it worked.

Apparently Radegast can interact with HUDs now. But I mostly agree.

Hi.
I was on SL for some time and learned a bit about the, well, should we call it a game or a simulator?
Because for the disabled comunity on there it's not like a game, it's their second life. You create an avatar and have to create clothing and styles for every ocasion. For example if you go out, sit at a camp fire and chat with others, or do what ever you want.
Good, I tackled the problem by one of the VI officials giving me a lion as an avatar, yeah, this is a thing. But you need sighted help from some of the members for example when you want to look at the textures of a room or location, if you want to move somewhere you have to follow someone, you can pritty much say that this is a game where you depend on the sighted folk dedicated to the VI Group.
Greetings Moritz

Hi.
I also tried SL long time ago, and got quite far. I don't remember much on how to do the various things in the simulator. Yes, you can travel around, talk to people, explore the huge world etc. But it have a very huge learning curve. You need sighted help to do some of the activities, but I never came that far. I only needed sighted help to get dressed.
SL is quite cool indeed, accept for people never talk about it anymore. But, I think, if we ever have to get any success in this simulator, the blind people in there who know how to do the various things needs to get on this forum, and tell us about their experiences. Then, we really need a guide on how to get started, what we can do on our own and what we need some help with. Then, it's up to people to decide if it's worth it or not, and if we think we can do enough on our own, or if we need too much help from others.
I agree that if we can't at leased do the basics on our own, then it's not worth it. Then, we can just go out in the real life, take the train to an unknown area and ask for help.

Radegast does have a graphical viewer in it, but its slow and not good. Also, when you move to a place, you end up teleporting, not walking. You can enter commandd into radegast to walk a few steps, but yeah.

It's just too visual for us to really work well in that environment without getting lots of help, which I'm not into. It is cool though, no question, I just don't see how we can really be successful in that environment.

I tried it, but I wasn't able to figure out how it worked. Sad, because I wanted to live a second life

I do love SL for all the stuff it offers, but I go in there, and I feel disabled, where in the real world, I don't.

Seconded, no pun intended.

my thought here is that, from what I remember from an introductory video about second life, the creators simply made an island with some trees and water on it, and the residents, that is, the players did the rest. They built out the world on their own, cutting down the trees and building with them. I'd like to see something very similar done here. In fact, I think we all ought to bounce this idea off of Joseph and see how he responds. I think if anyone out here currently could even remotely pull something like this off, he'd be our man. He's given us a hero's call, what would it hurt to at least ask him? the wurst thing that could happen is he says no. You know if I had the knowledge, I'd do this myself but we all know that I couldn't code my way out of a home security system. What are your thoughts on this? am I just dreaming out loud? or does this seem like something we could achieve with enough hard work and asking around.

we could actually create our own thread for this topic, yes. We could call it something like a virtual world for the blind or something along those lines and discuss our thoughts and opinions along with ways to very hopefully pull this off as well as things that we could include in our virtual world. Running in real time definitely should be a must. In other one day in real time is one day in the world. Seasons, Etc, you know the drill. Or should we even have seasons. I don't think second life does, we all know how survive the wild does with temperature changes and things, I don't think we'd have to go quite that far actually because you're not really surviving in our world, you're quite literally living another life. So it's not so drastic as being a matter of life and death so much.