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Yes we’ve had that “gorilla arm” discussion before. That’s why I tried to sidestep that discussion by mentioning Soli, which has subtle movements. When “inven

• bitwize 5y ago
  It's really hard to beat the ergonomics of a keyboard for things like writing, coding, and data entry. These are still important applications, they're not really amenable to literal handwaving, and a keyboard presents a dead simple solution. Dismissing improvements on the keyboard as a "faster horse" when gesture interfaces still have enormous issues to work out is silly, especially if you mention Soli -- so groundbreaking, Google left it out of phones after the Pixel 4! And yes, the gorilla arm is but one of these issues. Gestures are vague enough to be challenging to recognize with a higher than acceptable rate of false positives and false negatives. They're also not very discoverable. Certainly there's room for research in this area, but there's also room for making working systems better.