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how would you play games on your pc if you couldn't use your hands

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your first instinct might be to use your feet uh maybe even with a foot

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controller like the beacon or the stinky footboard but then what if you couldn't use your

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feet either in that case you might be tempted to get more uh creative

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but fortunately for the many people out there including many gamers who struggle

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to use a conventional keyboard or mouse there's another option introducing quad

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joy a mouse you control

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to learn more

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so how do you control a mouse with your mouth well the first step is to actually

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get this device close enough to your face which quad joy accomplishes with

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a clamp and a mounting ARM now there are two styles of clamps available and this

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is the most popular one there's also this like kind of pipe mounting clamp

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one which can grab on to pretty much anything so it's better for wheelchairs

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but it's almost three times the price and both of them can connect to the

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mounting ARM in multiple orientations so this one this little bit unscrews and

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you can put it on any one of these five mounting points and then this one

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you either put it on sideways and mount it here or here or here or you put it on

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this way and mount it up here that's what we're going to be doing then you

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got your mounting ARM this thing is heavy duty af like it's sturdy enough to

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keep the device in place and air like look i'm waving it around and it's not

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bending but it's also flexible enough

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that you can tailor it to your exact setup and it'll stay exactly where you

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want it's also got this really nice articulating end here that again really

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nice quality you just loosen up configure however you want it tighten it

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up with just one knob and boom

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this gives you the precision you need to get the quad joy to your lips please

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stand by while Linus installs the device

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so the mouse itself is basically

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a single joystick so you can probably see the cursor moving around

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but with the added ability to respond to your breath so out of the box it's

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totally plug and play with no software required and the basic i don't know i

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guess you could call them like gestures that it's pre-programmed with or a sip

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for left click or a puff for right click

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cool right now there is a learning curve so to get to

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the same level that i would have with my hands would take tens if not hundreds of

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hours but the folks at quad joy have done their best to make it as easy as

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possible first of all there are led indicators that you can actually see out

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of your peripheral vision so it's easy to tell for example when you've entered

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what they call scrolling mode all you've got to do is puff

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until this indicator turns green and then you can puff and sip in order to

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scroll up and down a page pretty cool

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and there's the totally optional quad joy desktop app that lets you take these

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default actions and greatly expand them you can do a ton of

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tweaking to everything from how the stick behaves to pointer speed and

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acceleration to even the required breath force it's actually pretty deep and the

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best part is the amount of customization that they give you with the gestures

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with just sipping and puffing so like

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you can program up to 12 different actions with basically whatever key

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binding you want so so you could you know puff soft then hard for ctrl alt

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delete or to launch the calculator or whatever the case may be it's awesome

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but wait there's more actually a lot more

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so you can execute functions with multiple types of gestures

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not just sipping and puffing like by moving the stick to the edge and holding

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for example check this out

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there it is and you can actually create

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a gesture to switch modes giving you a

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whole other layer of commands on the fly

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using those same sips and puffs or hold stick to edges and then what's cool is

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you can import and export your settings so you can optimize the mouse or the

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quad joy as it were for different applications on your computer leading us

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of course then to the question with all this customization can you game on it

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did i help you

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we're really in the net

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all right so believe it or not it depends on the

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game you can actually play something like rocket league with near full

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functionality since all you need is movement with the stick and then boost

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and jump can be done with your breaths

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pretty cool right and even mouse-centric games like rts

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rpg or board games were shockingly

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functional now the tricky genre is FPS

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so can it run crisis

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okay technically this isn't crisis but whatever the same principles apply now

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to do this properly you'd really want two joysticks one for looking around

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and then one for moving and we couldn't find an effective way to do both of

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those things at the same time on the quad joy so the best we managed was

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using the stick to look and then just inhaling to move forward and then

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puffing to shoot now it technically works but it's a pretty bad time

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but what if you used the stick to run around

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then stopped switched mouse modes to look around a

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name and shoot and then switch back to keep moving

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that's basically what twitch dreamer rocky no hands does

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and odds are he can absolutely pwn you at fortnight however he uses a different

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controller the quad stick so would this approach work on the quad joy

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unfortunately no because the software doesn't let you

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bind stick movements to key presses like

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up equals w what they do offer is a sold separately

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210 dollar feature called joystick mode

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that we actually ended up needing third-party software called joy to key

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to fully utilize it does allow you to move around using

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the stick oh dang it

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but it creates a new problem so they don't actually let you do gestures in

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joystick mode so you have no way to quickly switch

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back to mouse mode when you're done moving around

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and it's time to aim and fire at something

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all right then so assuming you're in the market for a mouth mouse should you buy

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the quad joy uh if you're a gamer well it's clearly

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not designed with gaming in mind but for

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general computer use there are really a lot of great things about it

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that are hampered by a couple of complaints one

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the amount of play on the mounting ARM

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is in our minds unacceptable for something that costs

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complaint number two this much

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this wiggle in the mount right down here amounts to a significant dead zone in

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either the x or the y-axis depending on

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which way you mount it and at fourteen hundred dollars

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quad joy costs about double what the quad stick does and that one has been

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proven to be performance enough for competitive gaming and with multiple

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mouth options so i don't see why you might not start

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there instead though to be clear we haven't tested

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any of the other products in the market and we're not really the target consumer

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for these products anyway the purpose of this video for us was to experience a

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type of mouse input that we had never tried before and draw attention to a

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segment of the market that really doesn't get talked about much so if you

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have experience with either of the products we've talked about or maybe

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another one we didn't cover please leave a message in the comments section below

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learning from lectures and videos isn't as effective as diving in and doing

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things for yourself and brilliant provides you with the framework for

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thinking about and solving problems so it's kind of like a problem-solving

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website that teaches you to think like a computer scientist by guiding you

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through problems so they take a concept break it up into bite-sized pieces

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present clear thinking in each part and then build back up to an interesting

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conclusion so head over to brilliant.org forward slash Linus tech tips and get 20

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off today we're gonna have that linked below

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so thanks for watching guys if this video sucked this video sorry

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my mouth is actually kind of tired if it sucked you know what to do but if it was

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