how would you play games on your pc if you couldn't use your hands
your first instinct might be to use your feet uh maybe even with a foot
controller like the beacon or the stinky footboard but then what if you couldn't use your
feet either in that case you might be tempted to get more uh creative
but fortunately for the many people out there including many gamers who struggle
to use a conventional keyboard or mouse there's another option introducing quad
joy a mouse you control
with your mouth speaking of mouth my mouth saying these
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so how do you control a mouse with your mouth well the first step is to actually
get this device close enough to your face which quad joy accomplishes with
a clamp and a mounting ARM now there are two styles of clamps available and this
is the most popular one there's also this like kind of pipe mounting clamp
one which can grab on to pretty much anything so it's better for wheelchairs
but it's almost three times the price and both of them can connect to the
mounting ARM in multiple orientations so this one this little bit unscrews and
you can put it on any one of these five mounting points and then this one
you either put it on sideways and mount it here or here or here or you put it on
this way and mount it up here that's what we're going to be doing then you
got your mounting ARM this thing is heavy duty af like it's sturdy enough to
keep the device in place and air like look i'm waving it around and it's not
bending but it's also flexible enough
that you can tailor it to your exact setup and it'll stay exactly where you
want it's also got this really nice articulating end here that again really
nice quality you just loosen up configure however you want it tighten it
up with just one knob and boom
this gives you the precision you need to get the quad joy to your lips please
stand by while Linus installs the device
so the mouse itself is basically
a single joystick so you can probably see the cursor moving around
but with the added ability to respond to your breath so out of the box it's
totally plug and play with no software required and the basic i don't know i
guess you could call them like gestures that it's pre-programmed with or a sip
for left click or a puff for right click
cool right now there is a learning curve so to get to
the same level that i would have with my hands would take tens if not hundreds of
hours but the folks at quad joy have done their best to make it as easy as
possible first of all there are led indicators that you can actually see out
of your peripheral vision so it's easy to tell for example when you've entered
what they call scrolling mode all you've got to do is puff
until this indicator turns green and then you can puff and sip in order to
scroll up and down a page pretty cool
and there's the totally optional quad joy desktop app that lets you take these
default actions and greatly expand them you can do a ton of
tweaking to everything from how the stick behaves to pointer speed and
acceleration to even the required breath force it's actually pretty deep and the
best part is the amount of customization that they give you with the gestures
with just sipping and puffing so like
you can program up to 12 different actions with basically whatever key
binding you want so so you could you know puff soft then hard for ctrl alt
delete or to launch the calculator or whatever the case may be it's awesome
but wait there's more actually a lot more
so you can execute functions with multiple types of gestures
not just sipping and puffing like by moving the stick to the edge and holding
for example check this out
there it is and you can actually create
a gesture to switch modes giving you a
whole other layer of commands on the fly
using those same sips and puffs or hold stick to edges and then what's cool is
you can import and export your settings so you can optimize the mouse or the
quad joy as it were for different applications on your computer leading us
of course then to the question with all this customization can you game on it
did i help you
we're really in the net
all right so believe it or not it depends on the
game you can actually play something like rocket league with near full
functionality since all you need is movement with the stick and then boost
and jump can be done with your breaths
pretty cool right and even mouse-centric games like rts
rpg or board games were shockingly
functional now the tricky genre is FPS
so can it run crisis
okay technically this isn't crisis but whatever the same principles apply now
to do this properly you'd really want two joysticks one for looking around
and then one for moving and we couldn't find an effective way to do both of
those things at the same time on the quad joy so the best we managed was
using the stick to look and then just inhaling to move forward and then
puffing to shoot now it technically works but it's a pretty bad time
but what if you used the stick to run around
then stopped switched mouse modes to look around a
name and shoot and then switch back to keep moving
that's basically what twitch dreamer rocky no hands does
and odds are he can absolutely pwn you at fortnight however he uses a different
controller the quad stick so would this approach work on the quad joy
unfortunately no because the software doesn't let you
bind stick movements to key presses like
up equals w what they do offer is a sold separately
210 dollar feature called joystick mode
that we actually ended up needing third-party software called joy to key
to fully utilize it does allow you to move around using
the stick oh dang it
but it creates a new problem so they don't actually let you do gestures in
joystick mode so you have no way to quickly switch
back to mouse mode when you're done moving around
and it's time to aim and fire at something
all right then so assuming you're in the market for a mouth mouse should you buy
the quad joy uh if you're a gamer well it's clearly
not designed with gaming in mind but for
general computer use there are really a lot of great things about it
that are hampered by a couple of complaints one
the amount of play on the mounting ARM
is in our minds unacceptable for something that costs
complaint number two this much
this wiggle in the mount right down here amounts to a significant dead zone in
either the x or the y-axis depending on
which way you mount it and at fourteen hundred dollars
quad joy costs about double what the quad stick does and that one has been
proven to be performance enough for competitive gaming and with multiple
mouth options so i don't see why you might not start
there instead though to be clear we haven't tested
any of the other products in the market and we're not really the target consumer
for these products anyway the purpose of this video for us was to experience a
type of mouse input that we had never tried before and draw attention to a
segment of the market that really doesn't get talked about much so if you
have experience with either of the products we've talked about or maybe
another one we didn't cover please leave a message in the comments section below
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