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Could this be used to create an “Air Keyboard” that allows you to type by pretending to type into the air?

• teddyh 10y ago
  Remember the gorilla arm. http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/G/gorilla-arm.html http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/G/gorilla-arm.html
  • eximius 10y ago
    With the size of the chip, its possible to make a wearable on the wrist to capture the finger input so your arms can face anywhere.
    • digi_owl 10y ago
      Hmm, that and AR and you have some interesting potential. A wrist worn device pr hand that can track individual fingers. Thus freeing up the hand to still do grasping and such.
  • digi_owl 10y ago
    The problem there, as i see it is twofold. 1. the screens were mounted upright. Notice how keyboard are nearly flat by comparison. 2. touchscreens thus far can't tell a finger resting from a finger pressing. So while a near flat screen avoids much of the gorilla arm issue, longer durations will put strain on the wrists.
• dragonwriter 10y ago
  The technology looks like it might be able to, though the focus is finger-on-finger interactions so that there is haptic feedback, which "air keyboard" doesn't provide. OTOH, if it is precise enough, you might be able to make a virtual chorded keyboard / keyer [0] with it using finger-on-finger or finger-on-hand gestures. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chorded_keyboard https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chorded_keyboard
  • digi_owl 10y ago
    I am really surprised that none of the current VR kits seem to offer a chorded keyboard on their controllers.