The team from the Garage also “stayed with us patiently the first times our participants tried it,” Karni says. (Two of the five Microsoft Israel R&D Center engineers who worked on the cockpit also are licensed commercial pilots.) The Garage also enlisted a volunteer group of commercial pilots to help guide participants during their flights. Staff from the Garage in Israel made sure that didn’t happen, giving occupational and physical therapists at House of Wheels a demonstration of the cockpit and teaching them how it works. “But at the same time, we were afraid that our participants wouldn’t be able to enjoy it, or even worse, they would feel an experience of failure trying to fly.” “The minute that we heard about the opportunity to receive the cockpit, we were thrilled,” says Karni.
A prototype of the adaptive cockpit in the office of the Microsoft Garage in Israel. The goal for each creator: To make Microsoft Flight Simulator, which lets players simulate piloting a plane just about anywhere around the globe in real-time weather conditions, more accessible to everyone. Three team members from the Microsoft Garage in Israel and five engineers from Microsoft Israel R&D Center created the cockpit. That includes the recent addition of an adaptive cockpit that enables House of Wheels participants like Wanda to play “Microsoft Flight Simulator,” enjoyed worldwide by real-world pilots, flight enthusiasts and virtual travelers. From left, Hila Yanay, House of Wheels manager of ‘Wheels and Wings’ day center, Yaniv Wanda, House of Wheels CEO Yonatan Karni and Netanel Gvili. Participants master various abilities, but most importantly, they are taught “the maximum self-confidence and the tools of social interaction that can help them live their lives,” says Yonatan Karni, House of Wheels CEO. The life skills center is a welcoming place for those who rely on their own wheels, as in wheelchairs – whether because of cerebral palsy, muscular dystrophy or other physical disabilities. He calls House of Wheels his “second home”– he’s a regular, there almost every day. Yaniv Wanda is studying law and he’s certified to teach guided meditation at the program he participates in, House of Wheels, in Herzliya, Israel.
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