[games_access] The New Wave: Xbox One

[Barrie Ellis]

Just caught a few bits on the new "Xbox One". Not much revealed on accessibility that I've seen yet, but...

Kinect 2 sounds promising, with better tracking and resolution. Hopes for cheap head/eye-gaze control I'm thinking. Maybe some carry over for the OAK "Air Switch" ideas.

The new joypad doesn't look like a radical departure, so hopefully as ripe for adaptation as the Xbox 360 joypad. That's good news. I wonder if Microsoft are still keeping the 3rd party controller blocks on. Hope not.



Voice control and gesture could be great, if highly reconfigurable.

Wait and see time, I guess. Microsoft got a whole slew of ideas for accessibility at the original Kinect accessibility session years back. Really hope they'll put some into action.

Barrie
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