Complete Xbox Meet Spencer Allen – A Gaming for Everyone Story Trailer

VIDEO Xbox Meet Spencer Allen – A Gaming for Everyone Story TV commercial 2019 • When everyone plays, we all win. In this inspirational film, we meet lifelong gamer Spencer Allen – reconnecting with the top of his game with a little help from the Xbox Adaptive Controller and the adaptations he made to the controller. Huge shout-out to Spencer and his family for sharing their story with us! “Every single person on Team Xbox is working together to make gaming accessible, equitable, and sustainable for all.” - Phil Spencer 00:02 - Creativity is important for me because it's freedom. 00:07 It really allows me to think outside the box, 00:11 and create things that people haven't created before. 00:17 - And we're so fortunate that we live in a day and age 00:19 when we have all this technology that he can use. 00:21 Those things that he has available to work with now 00:24 wouldn't have been available 20 years ago. 00:26 (soft music) 00:34 - I've known Spencer since I was like three years old. 00:37 Grew up right down the street, literally across the street. 00:40 I would like run over here. 00:42 We'd hang out and stuff. 00:43 - As long as they've had games out, we've been playing. 00:46 - I mean, we didn't stop playing Halo 00:48 'til like forever. (laughs) 00:50 It was great. 00:51 - I think that's what got me into it the most, 00:54 the social aspect of it. 01:00 I didn't think about gaming 'til the adaptive controller 01:04 came out, but once it became available, 01:07 then it was always on my mind. 01:11 - There was an ad that came out and he saw it 01:14 and it was right before Christmas, 01:16 so we got him the controller for Christmas. 01:19 - I got the device, not knowing, 'cause I'm not a gamer. 01:21 I don't know what any of the buttons do. 01:24 And I got that thinking, okay, here it is. 01:31 - There's a lot of things to work out. 01:34 When I originally saw the one-handed joystick on 01:37 Microsoft's website, I didn't think it was gonna work for 01:41 me because there was no attachments that my hand could use. 01:46 Nothin' that was really sensitive enough to play the games 01:49 hat I wanted to, like Halo and games that require a lot 01:53 of movement and a lot of button use. 01:56 When I saw that there are parts out there that work 01:59 for that controller, that's when I was finally like, okay, 02:02 this is pretty cool. 02:03 I can build on this. 02:06 I already had the shape in mind, the U shape 02:08 that I needed too, in mind with metal ones at first, 02:14 and they were just too heavy. 02:16 It lead me to, well, 3D printing is probably the best way 02:19 for me to solve that problem. 02:22 This is my first 02:25 cut-out of the tray. 02:27 Tried to model it as much as I could 02:29 after the original controller. 02:31 Then it just lead me to step-by-step switching little things 02:36 here and there to finally getting to the point that 02:39 it was working for me. 02:41 I've probably made 02:44 at least 15 different iterations 02:47 of the joystick itself. 02:50 Just the joy of playing games again really kept me goin'. 02:59 - After seeing it actually cut out with the design on it, 03:02 I was like, so many other people 03:05 can use this besides Spencer. 03:08 I was like, we gotta play some games, man. 03:12 - This is something that we can do together again. 03:15 It's been really nice. 03:18 - I just love seeing him be able to do fun things 03:21 with his friends, you know, all together again, 03:23 just like they were before. 03:27 - I'm not done with it yet, by any means. 03:30 But once 03:33 everyone that wants to game again, can. 03:36 Then I'll know I'm done. 03:39 (upbeat music)- advertisement spot 2019