I understand most gaming peripherals, even if I don’t want t♉o own them. I get why people love to deck their PCs out in LEDs even though min▨e looks pretty chill in comparison. I get why some gamers deck out their desks with huge speaker systems or sound bars even though I use headphones. I don’t get why people use mousepads made out of glass.
Skypad makes giant panes of glass to put your mice on. The goal is to red♈uce surface friction as much as possible – in the same manner that some esports athletes wear spandex sleeves (which Skypad also makes) – so that you can be quicker and more accurate. It may seem pointless for your average workday, but this is aimed a✃t high-level players, or those trying to ape them.
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I understand why esports athletes need every possible advantage. When millions of dollars are on the line, every millisecond of reaction t༒ime could mean the difference between winning a life-changing amount of money or not. If you’re an esport competitor and find that gliding your mouse over a pane of glass improves your performance, however marginally, you do you. If you’re one of the 99.9 percent of people reading this who are not esports athletes, however, what the hell are you doing?
This is a ෴massive piece of glass. It’s not going to improve your K/D, you’re not going to get a better rank, your teammates won’t stare in wonder at your newfound accuracy. Maybe your character will turn around fractionally quicker, but it won’t make any meaningful difference to your performance. These things cost the best part of 100 quid.
You could make the same argument for fancy mice or keyboards, and to some extent, I agree. The thing is, neither of those peripherals are massive panes o▨f glass.
While the Skypad website shows a gif of an employee dropping their branded glass onto a solid floor and it not breaking, I would not trust a massive sheet of glass to not shatter into a million pieces when given the wrong pressure. If my love of watching Kevin McCloud’s Grand Designs has taught me anything, strengthened glass only takes the tiniest knock on one of its edges to be completely obliterated. Throw a sledgehammer at it head on? It’ll be fine. Tap it on a corner? It can’t cope. I’m not risking putting a similarly tough piece of glass on my work desk in case of potential mishap. I’ve seen enough people’s glass-sided PCs completely shatter for no apparent reason to put another hazard in my gaming s🥃pace.
No regular player, no matter how committed they are, needs to shell out for a glass mousepad to incrementally increase their aiming capabilities.♏ It’s a baffling material to make a gaming peripheral out of, and I doubt it impacts your gameplay in any meaningful way. Sure, a professional gamer may get some utility out of a 0.1 second improvement to their reaction time, but that’s not going to be the difference between gold and platinum rank. It just meaꦜns you’ve put a window on your desk that you’ll slam your mouse into for eight hours a day.