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[onesvenus]

The other day while I was waiting a bus, I saw an electric wheelchair, I had seen them before, but that day there was something that came to my mind that I've never thought. Those wheelchairs have a kind of Joystick to drive it and it got me thinking, what did exist before, the joystick on the wheelchairs or the joystick on the videogames? Could it be that this bad industry (which turns mad all our children, which is a drug, etc.) had given a lot of people something to make their life better?? And do you know about something other videogame related that has an application outside of the industry??

 

[Tarazet]

I immediately thought of auto racers being able to familiarize themselves with a track without risking life and limb, and without having to pay for the track time. That's definitely a good thing.

 

[VNZ]

Joysticks are much older than this industry.

 

[Senretsu]

I've seen something on phobia studies where they have people move through virtual environments, i.e. a modified FPS to try to overcome them. Pretty neat stuff. Ranges from anything like spiders, high places, to the color red, you'd be shocked to hear of the kinds of stuff people are so afraid of that it affects their quality of life.

 

[onesvenus]

Joysticks are much older than this industry.

Well yes, a short read on the wikipedia shows that the first 2-axis joystick was inventend on 1944 by a nazi, but I was thinking about the digital joysticks, that are the one's that are on the powered wheelchairs.

 

[Hitokage]

Joysticks are much older than this industry.

Hmm....

 

[emomoonbase]

The first steam powered cars steered with a joystick of sorts as well.

 

[Taibhse]

That was a digital joystick.