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It's funny because it's actually true... The same manufacturers that make car, airplane, kid's seats (for safety and extended sitting comfort) also make high end seats for gaming. The one on the right is just a knock off a $1000 https://t.co/6HHMhExJqg gaming chair AFAICT. https://t.co/PjzQXNH0tW
I might get a gaming chair that feels like a car seat because I'm likely going to be building a VR driving simulator to desensitize myself from the stresses of driving. Going to basically set myself up with something like this: https://t.co/3pSiMuH0tZ
I'm hoping to be streaming my driving because I wanna record what I may have missed; to try figure out how my attention changes and what particular stresses cause me to get stressed. Going to be a few months, but this is something I will be actively saving up to do.
In that autism driving study, they're using some kind of infrared eye tracking device with a monitor. I might end up saving up to get https://t.co/9Y8c0QbIVW if the cheap VR rig I start with ends up working out.
I've been playing around with some video based eye tracking, but they never seem to work out well for me. There's some evidence that we can detect autism by how people's gaze operates.https://t.co/1EVB1O50fH
I hate how often the popular narratives going around are always the exact opposite of what I want to read. That chair thing is alluding that gamers are babies.Meanwhile I'm researching in that space to help solve issues related my my disability.🤷♂️ https://t.co/WjZ5vo6Jkn
I think about this TED talk a lot. about how children die because of bullshit around the car seat industry - and how so much of it is driven (hah) by the way society's systems of shame and hate act as enforcement of social norms. We're so fucked.https://t.co/Rlvh9NQDmi
"This is my daughter. This is as of 9 a.m. this morning. She's playing a computer game. She's only two years old, and she's having a blast. So she's really the driving force behind the development of graphics-processing units."https://t.co/jqMgrNksPq
One of the first things I'm getting thanks to my new job is a bunch of cheap power tools and PVC pipe so I can build my own DIY simulation rig I found online. https://t.co/N0QGI715yF
The next thing I'm doing? Using those PVC skills to build myself a wheelchair that fits that comfy 'baby' car seat for when I eventually succumb to an M.s. flair-up outside of my ability to stop.I'm thinking of something just like these kids's seats:https://t.co/31BlBgembY
"It's funny because it's actually true..."Why I know so much about car seats and baby seats is because of wanting to learn about how to build my own wheel chair.https://t.co/xtI63hG6T2
It's funny because it's actually true... The same manufacturers that make car, airplane, kid's seats (for safety and extended sitting comfort) also make high end seats for gaming. The one on the right is just a knock off a $1000 https://t.co/6HHMhExJqg gaming chair AFAICT. https://t.co/PjzQXNH0tW
Don't give up, even if it seems like most of our society thinks you're dead weight. I know you're not. I know you're valuable. Don't listen to their lies and gaslighting. They don't know you.https://t.co/xgRwtrZ6ya
Don't become the monster they want you to be. https://t.co/DtS4DvaqLg
Haha look at this gaming dweeb pioneering consumer level technology that might help disabled people by bringing the cost down to accessible levels. What a baby!https://t.co/tRYMMQDglz
"The better the chip and its software, the easier the competitor can control his avatar. This same technology is what applies in the real world to quadriplegics that instruct motorized wheelchairs and other devices to move."https://t.co/SNa55WqN69https://t.co/2GGZR7kyRw
Going to go for a walk to cherish the use of my legs.https://t.co/oZ183km4NA
Monkey controlling wheelchair with implantshttps://t.co/mSr0cbOd42Installing electronics subdermallyhttps://t.co/fDsGt6bfZnQi chargers are bi directional (Trophallaxis?!)intracortical microstimulation in ratshttps://t.co/NOmWe2UxpVMars or bust.https://t.co/GcHPcIet4L
My little brother has a nice gaming rig + a Rift. He just got @SCSsoftware's American Truck Simulator VR mode working (beta feature), and found some Car mods. I also just saw that it also supports @tobiigaming's eye tracking too!I wonder if it works with https://t.co/9Y8c0QbIVW
I think I may still struggle with timing issues with regards to entering and exiting streams of traffic. Even just in the passenger seat, I end up panicking a bit.Navigating that wiht VR might be a solution there too?https://t.co/YMeWi5knkX
Just ordered tools to help build this with:https://t.co/lJHTHlRHtO
Steam Sales are great.Family Share is great.All of this for < $60 https://t.co/6bI687Ok7G
GTA V ought to be good enough to train myself with?"...access to a rich, diverse world for testing and developing AI. Its island setting is almost one fifth the size of Los Angeles, giving access to a broad range of scenarios to test systems"https://t.co/GsLc7PKtZn
Bought a baby seat on sale.https://t.co/j2a66gWoCt
Going to rearrange the bedroom soon so I have a space to build the PVC wheelchair.https://t.co/Xza7MH6yTy
I couldn't use my arms. My hands wouldn't even close around things no matter how I tried. It took every bit of my will power to just sit up in bed so my GF cold give me some food.I need to figure out how to measure this. to track it. To solve it.I don't care what you call it.
Regis, please summon my wheelchair.https://t.co/vkMgOguAgl
Life goalshttps://t.co/Vn5jUGruxE
I bet I can build a version of this out of PVC.https://t.co/J9fAZejnZs
One of the big things I'm running into is while I can find some pretty nice cheap VR goggles, they aren't easy to hack other sensors into.This looks like an interesting solution.https://t.co/JZKcf2nvo1
I can't sit in this car seat during an M.S. flair up.Had to move back to my old chair that I I could tilt to make sure my hips are aligned.In other news, google translates "Sciatica" to "pinched nerve" and I learned of another celeb with M.S. https://t.co/L3bGRzJJMC
How do you use a cane to help with walking when your hand won't actually close itself when your brain tries to tell it to?Maybe Crutches?"I'm literally just an engine short of becoming a standardized motor vehicle" https://t.co/DYRFJCbCNS
$200 is way over my price range for a forearm crutch.Time to look at becoming Quadrupedal on the cheap using techniques from cosplay.'On the Design of foreleg extensions and Quadrupedal Costumes' https://t.co/IIH4y1n5bu https://t.co/bE6K0Z2IoG
The slow descent into becoming a wheel'd being.CanesCrutchesWalkersRollatorsKnee ScootersWheelchairsMobility ScootersBuggy Rollinhttps://t.co/aM9PpA0O0b
Was looking up prosthetics earlier and saw this clip from a PBS episode.Who names their disabled pig "Chris P. Bacon". That's just rude!https://t.co/KL3N3pgPUMI knew a Chris Bacon in grade school, so I was really confused.
Tired: lose the ability to walk.Wired: become gamer.https://t.co/piVsNu1CnS
Musk is meme'ing about cars seats.https://t.co/XCfPVXQQ6C
And has pictures of children on his feedhttps://t.co/aNhZuNNSZj
and is sharing links to articles with "Children" "Pool" "Driver" and "Growth".He's researching/memeing how to keeps kids safe in cars as the kid grows?https://t.co/wx2GF79oyB
I really hope he's exploring how to stop cars from killing children.https://t.co/7BpbVUBylT
I might be picking up on a false signal, but I'd like to think my mental model of him is good enough to see threads in his thinking.https://t.co/KQCbREn6Xp
I love watching every time @LinusTech does a driving sim setup. It gives me so many ideas on how to do it on the cheap.https://t.co/WlGieI0Hop
Thinking "how much can I get away with using cardboard and PVC"https://t.co/iVXxyA3ZdD
And sure enough, someone's already built a rig that way.https://t.co/m6Bzfdp8uJ
Of course you'll likely need something more robust if you want to beat on it for real and not just use it for light gaming. I found this playlist that shows some beefier home-brew steering-wheel designs. The strength of the feedback is kind a frightening. https://t.co/cP74px7eKu