Microsoft Adding Wheelchairs to the Xbox Live Avatars

It seems that Microsoft is working on improving the avatars in Xbox Live and they may be giving all of us a few surprises.

Microsoft’s Phil Spencer and platform boss Mike Ybarra tweeted a reveal of wheelchair avatars, giving those that are wheelchair-bound a better way to characterize themselves.

The reveal came after a few users suggested wheelchairs and Xbox head responded “…we hear you. This is something that we’ve already looked at, not far off.”

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Looking at the characters that are in the chairs, it appears like we might be getting an upgrade to the customization features too. And maybe they will address a few other physical features and add something like casts or crutches.

Personally I can’t wait to see the whole package