Yeah. And I guess there were some people who really got into that ecosystem, and that sucks for them. But I guess not enough of them, in the end.

The real scary thing is the whole Apple headset, coming along and disrupting the whole VR situation. I mainly just want to keep playing Hotdogs Horseshoes & Hand Grenades, and whatever VR games come to the game bundle scene, in peace.

But I’d also really appreciate it if devs remembered that left-handed people exist. Looking directly at the No Man’s Sky devs, while I’m saying this. They have updated that game so many goddamn times, but just no love for lefty VR users.

EDIT: later, I’ll have to go check the recent patch notes, in the year-and-a-half since I’ve played it, just to make sure it hasn’t been added.

So I am actually ambidextrous and originally a southpaw gamer. I wasn’t really able to play FPS well until the original Halo came out. I remember being super excited that it had an actual southpaw option. Then when Minecraft came out for Xbox I was disappointed because there was no southpaw option and I was really afraid I’d never get the hang of the controls. But I forced myself to play it and somehow Minecraft rewired my brain to where I can play default controls no problem now. I think playing a creative game with no precision pressure really helped.

I fully have no problem with Beat Saber. I mean, I’m still not actually good, by the high standards of that game…but it’s not something I need a left-handed mode for.

I just want all games to let me fire weapons with my left hand, really. And pick up and manipulate stuff with my left hand. And maybe flip any other controls, between the hands, like whatever the buttons are mapped to, in any specific game.

All that stuff should be virtually free, in terms of development costs. But a surprising amount of games just forget about us lefties.

Someone else suggested that, and I never really realized that the controller mapping extended to the VR controllers. I don’t know WHY I didn’t think about that. I went into the interface and poked around some, and it’s not immediately obvious how to tell it “make the game think the left controller is the right controller.”

Maybe there’s a way to do it, but it’s not readily apparent.

The situation I’m talking about is where, like, a game will simply place the a tool or weapon in your right hand. Maybe I’ve already remapped the controls for it to my left controller, but that doesn’t mean the game knows it should bind the model and animations for that weapon or tool to my left motion-tracked controller, instead.

So I’ll be left with waving the tool around in my right hand, but…being able to press the buttons that actually fire that gun with my left hand?

Not exactly useful, if that’s all the remapping can do. Now, like I said, there may be a way for SteamVR to tell the game “right is left” on a universal basis. I just haven’t found it.

Accessibility seems to become more and more of a priority, across the industry, with every year. And kudos to you for always thinking about it. I do think that left-handed support is something that can easily get forgotten, because it’s not a disability. Basically, if nobody on the dev team is left handed, and the team has never made a VR game, it’s a pretty good bet that they will at least need to be reminded.

It seems like I have heard of a few lefties who might remap controls like that, but I would have absolutely NO ABILITY to use a controller set up like that.

I know there are still a few southpaws out there, who use left-handed mice. I tried that once, probably back in the early 1990s, back when all I had to do was remap the two buttons that the mouse had, and try using it with my left hand. I couldn’t ever do it.

I throw objects with my left hand AND catch objects with my left hand (I was a disaster on the baseball field), I tie shoelace and necktie knots backwards/mirrored from a right-hander’s perspective, I bowl a bowling ball with my left hand, I use a pool cue with the butt of the stick in my left hand, I aim weapons with my left hand on the trigger, and I write/draw with my left hand…but I somehow managed to get locked into using a mouse in my right hand, instantly.

I guess that’s just as well, because I don’t even know what a user who mouses with the left hand does, instead of WASD. The numpad, or something? The arrow keys? Still use WASD, but with the keyboard shoved over to the right-hand side of the desk? The mind boggles.

But yeah, VR stuff is a pain, because it involves grabbing and shooting. Grabbing and shooting are just fully left-handed things, for me.

There are a few 3/DS games that do this for lefties and it was great.