{"id":2364,"date":"2021-07-16T08:54:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-16T07:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.specialeffect.org.uk\/news\/jacobs-space-racing-with-his-eyes"},"modified":"2021-09-22T18:27:22","modified_gmt":"2021-09-22T17:27:22","slug":"jacobs-space-racing-with-his-eyes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.specialeffect.org.uk\/news\/jacobs-space-racing-with-his-eyes","title":{"rendered":"Jacob\u2019s space racing with his eyes!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s Jacob learning to race a spaceship &#8211; just by moving his eyes! It\u2019s a lovely video from our friends at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.yai.org\/affiliate\/ihope\">The International Academy of Hope<\/a>\u00a0in New York showing one of our\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eyegazegames.com\/#\">online free-to-play gaze-controlled games<\/a>\u00a0in action.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/video.php?height=476&amp;href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fihopenyc%2Fvideos%2F4664252720288712%2F&amp;show_text=false&amp;width=267&amp;t=0\" width=\"267\" height=\"476\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/center>Their team are using our games in innovative ways with the disabled children they help, and they\u2019ve kindly offered to team up with us by providing invaluable real-world feedback on usability. 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It\u2019s great to be involved in such a practical and positive international partnership, and we\u2019re sure that the resulting improvements to the games will help to bring even more smiles of joy and inclusion to disabled people right around the world.nFind out more about our Eye Gaze Games.<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2495,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-eyegaze"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Jacob\u2019s space racing with his eyes! - SpecialEffect<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.specialeffect.org.uk\/news\/jacobs-space-racing-with-his-eyes\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Jacob\u2019s space racing with his eyes! - SpecialEffect\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Here\u2019s Jacob learning to race a spaceship &#8211; just by moving his eyes! 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