this is a unique key cap that we gathered Computex I also have this one
from ducky good times good times well hello good people I'm Dimitri and
our trip to Taipei for Computex had really opened up our eyes about
keyboards in general we weren't really into this whole boutique / premium /
affordable brands like ducky Leopold or Vermeil oh but now it got us thinking
that the gaming keyboard scene is becoming a bit stale so brands like
Corsair Logitech SteelSeries Razer ASUS have fantastic gaming reputation in the
keyboard space but they all have basically the same keyboard with slight
design variations although I will appreciate the different variations of
mechanical switches that basically is what the deterrent of maybe you picking
a steelseries keyboard / Logitech one and so on today's video I would like to
discuss my favorite keyboard features that I would love to see expanded into
the gaming keyboard market because let's face it the fact is that gaming
keyboards now are becoming way too boring
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studio is the ROG Strix scope and it's actually the keyboard that inspired this
whole conversation I would love your input and all the points that are to
follow so this one in particular has two unique elements one is the oversized
control key that is the same width as the North American layout Shift key and
they've literally received an innovation of the word for this control key alone
now is it actually anything special as a crouch key actually yes so if you play
with your keyboard angled like this the pinky finger doesn't have to reach to
avoid the Windows key and thus it's really awesome for FPS gamers larger
control key more area for your pinky to make mistakes and therefore you will
still press it without needing to reach for a tiny control instead this
non-traditional layout also pushes the spacebar to the right giving you
more comfortable reach to the Alt key but that is something that I had to
train because I'm not really used to using my thumb for anything other than
the spacebar which by the way on the scope is also slightly shorter the
second cool element on the scope is the privacy key that minimizes your desktop
and mutes the audio of course you can do this yourself with windows d to go into
the desktop however that does not include the mute functionality so it's
cool that Asus is thinking about ways to integrate some sort of this Universal
shortcut that I will probably use once in a while and you will to and love to
hear what you think about different macros that you use on daily basis that
would be really cool to have on a gaming keyboard so will share your thoughts in
the comments we've also seen plenty of secondary wheel integrations on
keyboards that could replace several macro keys I like what Drevo has done
with this low profile easy to access wheel on the side it's not just the
volume wheel I like what SteelSeries is doing with the new apex line that
there's not intrusive and hold multiple functionalities now I appreciate the
effort of including additional key caps most of the time they are just wast keys
in different color like the silver ones for the scope keyboard or different
texture and contours with the Corsair keyboards but what about unique Escape
keys or different graphics on the space bars or just spreading out a little
design flares here and there that isn't too much but shows you that your brand
cares about sort of this whole brand building and recognition there are some
really insanely detailed key caps available from companies like dwarf
Factory or hot keys project and I'm not advocating $30 per key caps I just hope
that brands gaming brands use that for inspiration for example I got this key
cap from gamers storm and they don't even make keyboards that I use on my
Escape key looks pretty cool and I would love to see a few ROG themed key caps on
future gaming keyboards or some cool low-profile ones from Logitech it
doesn't have to be super fancy or expensive just has to align with the
brand imagine having a really cool Escape key
that has little texture or different graphic on it or maybe the same thing
with the Enter key or the spacebar it would definitely elevate that gaming
brand keyboard above the rest because we haven't seen anything like it
in the gaming market we've seen so many of those
the enthusiasts keyboard market where you buy key caps and you swap them out
but having something that's standardized on the gaming space would be really cool
and I'm not even talking about PBT double shot key caps which feel amazing
and that really premium and only a few handful of keyboards actually have PBT
key caps like the Corsair k70 mark 2 RGB and I know this isn't for everybody but
I would love to have this verge of of gaming keyboards merging with this whole
like enthusiast community of keyboards are / mechanic keyboards is a really
fantastic place to explore all types of ideas but gaming brands I'm hoping are
taking note but what's under the key cap is even more important like quality
stabilizers and you know there's more to mechanical switches that MX cherry and I
love the trend of companies making their own like putting with liquor switches
large tech with romaji steel series with a new omni point switch and even HyperX
is making their own switch taking chances to set the keyboard apart from
the rest is one trend that I appreciate most with gaming brands also it would be
great to have full height adjustability and not just the two levels that we see
on most 99% keyboards high customization is something that's very important for
typists and so that leaves us with the cable I personally love a removable and
non braided light cable like on the driver Blademaster te and if you guys
recall my Onix had a coiled cable on the way keyboard that looked really awesome
and most of the time now all we have are hard non removable braided cables with
the only advantage of having cable routing built into the bottom of the
keyboard like with the scope and Corsair keyboards - but coarser keyboards have
the built-in USB pass-through on many of them which makes the cable really thick
and the last thing I will say is the font on majority of gaming keyboards
just pisses me off why does it have to be this ugly aggressive bulky stretchy
weird font on majority of keyboards that come from all these gaming brands why
can't be simple clean letters and numbers that you can appreciate that
still looks fine in this aggressively aluminum body and so my perfect vision
of future gaming keyboards lies in this like Hybrid territory where you can tell
it's a gaming keyboard maybe by certain keyboard switches like the
spacebar the the Escape key or the enter but the rested body remains clean and
almost minimal but still has a bit of character as to what the brand tries to
achieve and tries to deliver with the combination of that law sweet sweet
diversity of mechanical switches and I know I'm not the only one frustrated
with gaming keyboards every single new one that comes out it's like what is new
it's the same thing that we've seen for the last five years but with a slightly
different body and maybe some little tiny little features here and there but
none that have come out that says hey I'm a perfect hybrid here by me for our
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thanks much for watching let me know what you think about this whole
discussion have you found your perfect keyboard yet for the hybrid
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