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This is really exciting. It's sort of clear that there is no one killer interface, but truly robust gesture recognition, DL driven natural language interfaces,

This is really exciting. It's sort of clear that there is no one killer interface, but truly robust gesture recognition, DL driven natural language interfaces, and speech recognition start to describe a nice landscape for VR and AR. When I'm trying to create a lot of text, I'll still use a keyboard, but most of the time that's not what I want to be doing.

melling 10y ago
Yeah, most developers say they'll stick with a keyboard. I'm still holding out for the clever person who integrates gestures into a keyboard killer. You can use gestures chords, for example. With intellisense and other intelligent completion, the future might not need a keyboard. Here are some other gesture solutions: https://github.com/melling/ErgonomicNotes#gesture-computing https://github.com/melling/ErgonomicNotes#gesture-computing
- Aelinsaar 10y ago
  Soli in particular seems like it could be a huge driver for this, given that the market is "Mobile devices". I'm hugely excited.
- shostack 10y ago
  I wonder if they have to be exclusive. How cool would it be to have a keyboard where you can hold down a "gesture button" or just move your hands/fingers over a certain zone and have it pick up small gestures? You'd barely need to move your hands and could probably keep your wrists in the same position. This could then do things like more natural scrolling, cursor control, obviously more complex actions. They keyboard is great for what it does, but improving input doesn't necessarily have to mean getting rid of something that works quite well and completely reimagining it.
  - Aelinsaar 10y ago
    What has probably seen the end of the road, is the mouse.
    - Natanael_L 10y ago
      Not yet. There's few things matching its combination of speed and precision. It's more believable that computer mice will get tech like Soli integrated to become smarter.
      - Aelinsaar 10y ago
        So... a mouse and a motion control transceiver in one? That could be fun.
- andrewflnr 10y ago
  I don't think automatic completion is ever going to be a good substitute for solid text input. If your text input solution always requires it, I for one am not buying. That said, I'm hopeful for a gesture-based text input system that doesn't require any crutches.

melling 10y ago

Yeah, most developers say they'll stick with a keyboard. I'm still holding out for the clever person who integrates gestures into a keyboard killer. You can use gestures chords, for example. With intellisense and other intelligent completion, the future might not need a keyboard. Here are some other gesture solutions: https://github.com/melling/ErgonomicNotes#gesture-computing https://github.com/melling/ErgonomicNotes#gesture-computing

Aelinsaar 10y ago
Soli in particular seems like it could be a huge driver for this, given that the market is "Mobile devices". I'm hugely excited.
shostack 10y ago
I wonder if they have to be exclusive. How cool would it be to have a keyboard where you can hold down a "gesture button" or just move your hands/fingers over a certain zone and have it pick up small gestures? You'd barely need to move your hands and could probably keep your wrists in the same position. This could then do things like more natural scrolling, cursor control, obviously more complex actions. They keyboard is great for what it does, but improving input doesn't necessarily have to mean getting rid of something that works quite well and completely reimagining it.
- Aelinsaar 10y ago
  What has probably seen the end of the road, is the mouse.
  - Natanael_L 10y ago
    Not yet. There's few things matching its combination of speed and precision. It's more believable that computer mice will get tech like Soli integrated to become smarter.
    - Aelinsaar 10y ago
      So... a mouse and a motion control transceiver in one? That could be fun.
andrewflnr 10y ago
I don't think automatic completion is ever going to be a good substitute for solid text input. If your text input solution always requires it, I for one am not buying. That said, I'm hopeful for a gesture-based text input system that doesn't require any crutches.