{"id":56101,"date":"2024-02-23T14:13:14","date_gmt":"2024-02-23T14:13:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/?p=56101"},"modified":"2024-02-23T14:37:29","modified_gmt":"2024-02-23T14:37:29","slug":"city-museum-showcases-inclusive-new-way-to-play-best-seller-minecraft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/index.php\/2024\/02\/23\/city-museum-showcases-inclusive-new-way-to-play-best-seller-minecraft\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: City Museum showcases inclusive new way to play best-seller Minecraft"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

For the past two weeks, Sheffield’s National Videogame Museum<\/a>, located in Castlegate in the city centre, has been exhibiting a new exciting way to game. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Called Eye Gaze, the technology was originally created to make gaming more accessible to those with severe disabilities. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Eye Gaze has been giving visitors the opportunity to control the best-selling game Minecraft simply with the movement of their eyes, utilising infrared cameras and mimicking the the motion of a traditional mouse. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The National Videogame Museum has been working closely with Special Effect<\/a>, a charity dedicated to helping young disabled people to play videogames.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The charity has been working to assist those with complex disabilities to game since 2007. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Joel Arthur, the museums Junior Manager, said: “A lot of people weren’t even aware that the technology exists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Now that people are aware we can talk more about the impacts to people who cant play games in the standard way.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He also hopes that displaying new and inclusive technologies such as Eye Gaze will create more ‘vocal outreach’ to the gaming industry in making videogames more accessible. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The exhibition lasts from the 10th to the 25th February, so there is still a couple more days to try the technology out for yourself. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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