3D exhibit helps blind veterans experience war history
- Museums can be difficult for visually impaired people to navigate
- A new exhibit is designed to let these people experience 3D photographs
- The exhibit is going around the United States
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(NewsNation) — Many of America’s veterans have difficulties visiting museum exhibits because they are blind or visually impaired.
That’s a problem former war photographer John Olson wanted to address when he teamed up with the company Tactile Images to create a traveling exhibit titled “Tet and the Battle of Hue.”
It uses 10 different 3D images created from his 1968 photographs of U.S. Marines in Vietnam.
The photographs have touch-activated sensors that provide audio interviews with the Marines documented in each photo.
The Chicago Lighthouse, which serves disabled veterans, recently took a group of veterans to the exhibit.
“We are well-rounded. We want to provide opportunities for Veterans. Not only work opportunities, but life opportunities. Some of our Veterans were part of the Vietnam War, the Iraqi conflict – they want to learn more about it – they may not have seen the whole picture being in one division of the armed services,” said the group’s CEO, Janet Szlyk.
“It gives me goosebumps because I think this is something that the whole world should see,” said one veteran who visited the exhibit.
