The two trends taking the gaming keyboard world by storm today are optical and magnetic key switches. Both claim to offer something similar: a more reliable and more customisable keyboard. Though to the extent they deliver is up to how manufacturers use each one, and some make far better use of these clever new switches than others.
Take Wooting. This small company has crafted entirely analogue gaming keyboards out of optical switches and has moved on to even better magnetic ones.
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1 Wooting aims to offer a properly analogue gaming keyboard. That is, a gaming keyboard that can measure the full range of its keys’ motion. As a player you can use this keyboard to alter between walking and running in a game by only adjusting how far you depress the W key. Or even have a half key-press do one thing and a full key-press do another.
