How the Xbox Adaptive Controller will change the lives of millions of players with disabilities on PC

How the Xbox Adaptive Controller will change the lives of millions of players with disabilities on PC

6 years ago
Anonymous $CLwNLde341

https://www.pcgamer.com/how-the-xbox-adaptive-controller-will-change-the-lives-of-millions-of-players-with-disabilities-on-pc/

Back in the late 90s, Ultima Online was one of the hottest games on PC, an online game like I'd never played before: it was a place where I could create another life. As someone with a profound disability, I was destined to fall in love with MMOs on PC. These persistent online worlds gave me a chance to experience an existence where I wasn’t held back by a body that wouldn’t listen to my commands. Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA), the disease which eliminates my physical abilities over time, started making Ultima Online harder to play. I began using a dental tool to reach keys on the keyboard that I couldn’t reach with my fingers, and eventually resorted to using two hands to move my mouse.

Those were some scary times. I didn’t know if technology would keep up with how quickly I was losing abilities or if the technology that would allow me to continue experiencing life through the lens of virtual worlds would ever exist . But if you can’t use a keyboard and you can barely use a mouse, how do you play games on PC?