EA announces it will patent 23 accessibility technologies that will be available to developers royalty-free "to reduce or eliminate as many barrie...

[Windows Central]

EA has announced it is doubling its catalog of patents on accessibility technologies, which it says will be available to developers royalty and license-free.

EA announces it will patent 23 accessibility technologies that will be available to developers royalty-free "to reduce or eliminate as many barrie... : Read more

 

[Phyzzi]

The voice auto-aging sounds more creepy than promoting accessibility, but in general I am glad more tools are being produced to better fit the needs of gamers with more diverse backgrounds and abilities. I especially like the analysis tools, and think it would be cool if those could be set to run on a computer for someone with photosensitivity in a way that could mitigate actual on-screen triggers in any visual output at any time, as they are processed in graphics. This of course also points to the problem of no-royalty patents instead of simply making these tools open source, but I also understand the difficulties of making AI based tools open sourced and acknowledge that these are actually uses for AI that make sense and help people, instead of mostly being ways to steal and remix previous creative work.

I really do hope that the voice aging tool only goes one way though, and is implemented thoughtfully, since the last thing we need is another way for adult creeps to convince kids they are just friendly peers.