I was looking at John Carmack’s Meta Connect keynote and in his notes, talking about VR, he has this:
-Customization for left-handed players
YASSSS PLEASE OMGWTFBBQ
Developers have completely dropped the ball on us lefties. Outside OG games like Counter Strike, there are no first person action game that respects lefties by giving us the option to switch to our favorite hand.
None.
Could a game service have my lefty settings saved so that every new first person action game would be left-handed for me? Because I will never be right-handed in my life. It sure is a basic, probably trivial thing to do, right?
It has never been done to this day. To this day!
Software engineers will just “you’re the minority so you don’t exist” themselves out of working on not so fancy challenges that are really important, like accessibility.
Left-handedness is an accessibility challenge and it’s non-negotiable in VR: it has to exist, and be good. Which means it has to be taken holistically. John Carmack being on the case sure makes me feel hopeful.
It should have been integrated as an option in games fifteen years ago at least, though.