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SpecialEffect celebrate 20th anniversary gaze control breakthrough
This month, SpecialEffect are celebrating the 20th Anniversary of when Dr Mick Donegan, their Founder and CEO, developed the first, ground-breaking Tobii gaze control interface with coder Kirk Ewing. This was not only a watershed moment for people with severe motor challenges all over the world, but it also helped to give Mick the confidence…
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“The impact and positive change is huge”
Every year we’re grateful for the amazing One Special Day support from the global games industry in helping to bring incredible gaming moments to physically disabled gamers across the world! With this year’s event taking place on Friday 6 October, we’re again inviting the industry to partner with us in a variety of ways, through…
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Industry takes to the skies for One Special Abseil
The UK games industry and friends will take on the Anfield Abseil on 22 September in aid of SpecialEffect’s annual One Special Day campaign! Companies and studios from across the games industry including Sony Playstation, Lucid Games, Wushu Studios, Criterion Games, Escape Technology, Ripstone, Secret Mode, Playdemic, VTime, NDreams, Amiqus, Press Engine and Xbox will…
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“We have a very happy young man here!”
Chris has doubled his gaming fun thanks to ongoing support and advice from our specialist assessment team. Chris has Duchenne muscular dystrophy, and our team first helped him with a carefully-configured adapted gaming controller setup in 2020. He’s since found gaming more difficult, so his family got back in touch to see whether we could…
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Adapted controller setup helps Angus play Peppa
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZ32V-EyUZ8 A warm welcome to the world of gaming, Angus! He has difficulty using a standard gamepad, but here he is playing console games by himself for the first time using an adapted control setup devised by our specialist assessment team. Watch the video here. Angus has quadriplegic dystonic cerebral palsy and has large movements…
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Brandon’s going through the gears to racing success
A shift from automatic to manual is giving Brandon the all-important chance to compete at a higher level in Assetto Corsa Competizione, and he’s relishing the challenge. Brandon’s left-sided weakness meant that he’d been restricted to racing with an automatic gear change – too slow to be competitive online – and he was hoping that…
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