EA announces it will patent 23 accessibility technologies that will be available to developers royalty-free "to reduce or eliminate as many barriers to access as possible and empower our gamers"

EA's IRIS plugin is designed to detect photosensitivity triggering flashes in games developed in Unreal Engine 5.

What you need to know

• Electronic Arts (EA) has announced that it will be patenting 23 new technologies to make gaming more accessible for more people.
• The new technologies will be made available industry-wide free of royalties or licensing fees.
• Six of the 23 newly patented technologies are set to be released this year, including Intelligent Personalized Speech Recognition, the IRIS plug in for Unreal Engine 5, and Emotion Based Music Style Change Using Deep Learning.