Hi. I’m new and came across this post. Genuinely curious, however, about whether SpecialEffect were consulted on Logitech’s and Microsoft’s accessibility controllers? I can’t find any concrete information. Thanks in advance.
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I'd love to see some sort of chest/shoulder-controlled switches. Ideally these could be adjustable in 3D to be most usable, and also not need to be made custom for each individual to keep the cost down, and thus get to more people.
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I would love to see specialeffect develop Adaptive triggers that offer levels of resistance to give people with physical disabilities a more realistic gaming experience
I'd like to see something that would help with repetitive strain injuries, I feel like those deserve to be talked about more!
I'd love to see you guys develop an app or a game or something that we can all use on our mobile devices!
Awesome things y'all at Special Effect are doing! I remember the first time I saw Rocky NoHands playing and was in awe. I think the possibilities with mouth or eye tracking will open up gaming even more to everyone. Gaming has been huge in my life, as well as, many in this forum, so let us know if you need retweets or exposure. I look forward to seeing everything you guys accomplish.
This is such a great charity! They are helping so many people! Love it
Maybe a way to play using breathing or eye movement.
Maybe a way to play using breathing or eye movement.
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A wonderful initiative overall. Hopefully, we see more efforts at making current and future gaming consoles and PC gaming peripherals more adaptive and useable for everyone, especially those with accessibility challenges.
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This is a great cause. I would love to see continued work being put into VR setups for people with varying levels of physical ability.
they already done plenty by making this hobbie more accessible to this category of people but keep up the good work
I'd love to see them develop some type of controller for people who only have use of one arm or some kind of VR environment for physical therapy.
We need a breakthrough in the price/performance ratio of PC components in general. A recent example of this being needed is the recent 2000 series Nvidia video cards.
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