Re: ::scr air keyboard

[Earle Martin <scr@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Nov 16, 2001 at 07:08:48AM -0800, matt jones wrote:
> "To use the Senseboard, you put a band around each palm and type in midair
> as though you had a real keyboard. The pads pick up your finger movements
> and gesture-recognition software converts them into the letters you are
> virtually typing."

You have to be bloody good at touch typing though, surely? I could use it in
combination with some VR goggles - i.e., just like in "Johnny Mnemonic",
what fun - if you could "see" the "keyboard". Otherwise, fifty percent of my
keystrokes would be hitting a virtual Backspace button. 


> Now that's an application of
> technology that I like - allowing the user to recreate bits of "Bill and
> Ted's Excellent Adventure". :)

Bonus points for dual Keanu referencing.



[0] Kind of reminds me of that Dilbert strip where he gets sent to Elbonia to 
outsource some work to them, but they don't actually have any computers and
he has to demonstrate by air typing. 

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