Say goodbye to your mouse and keyboard

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"Say goodbye to your mouse and keyboard ... new user interfaces to redefine humanity"

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Lol. No. Even if it worked perfectly ala Minority Report (and it won't) its never going to replace a mouse and keyboard. Waving your hands around to interface with a computer is nowhere near as efficient as clicking with a mouse and typing on a keyboard.
 
Waving your hands around to interface with a computer is nowhere near as efficient as clicking with a mouse and typing on a keyboard.

Furthermore, to a first approximation, nobody is going to use that for their day job at the office. Don't believe me? How long can you hold your hands in the air, let alone while swiping around like that? Answer: not long enough to write a long email to a customer, I bet.
 
60 WPM on a Steam controller

Just out of curiosity--I've never used one, and I guess there aren't gonna be any more at this point--do you think you could conceivably hit 100WPM? Also, can you touch-type, and if so, what's your speed?
 
Massive funding given out like candy to companies that appear to come up with new revolutionary/futuristic/innovative ideas. In a few cases, with companies such as SpaceX, it's not all BS, but in many/most cases it is just BS. Executives make their money even if an actual product is never released.

I feel that speech recognition has made the most amazing progress, but even then you wouldn't necessarily want to be stuck in a situation where you have to say out loud everything you want to write. That would be chaos in an office environment, not to mention the security/privacy implications. Any big UI changes are more likely to augment existing interfaces rather than replace them, and any transitions that occur will likely be slow ones. For example, many people thought the smartphone represented the beginning of the decline of the traditional keyboard. But despite the radical change in UI when comparing a smartphone against a traditional computer, in most cases smartphones still use the standard QWERTY layout and most people still write by tapping on a virtual keyboard.
 
I feel that speech recognition has made the most amazing progress, but even then you wouldn't necessarily want to be stuck in a situation where you have to say out loud everything you want to write.

can you imagine?

- "Can I have your account # please ?"
- "I need your SS # please "
- appointments / social dating day time and place / etc

just to name a few
 
Won't happen until thought-interfacing is in a viable state. Many state that a physical keyboard can't be replaced by a digital one, but predictive-tracing software does give the average user a higher WPM rate than average (it won't be on average with better touch typist, but much faster than the average joe).
 
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Meh. More promises. Before Minority Report Keneau was building his own gesture based interface in year 2021, yet near 60 years after The Jetsons we still don't have flying cars. :confused:


 
Won't happen until thought-interfacing is in a viable state. Many state that a physical keyboard can't be replaced by a digital one, but predictive-tracing software does give the average user a higher WPM rate than average (it won't be on average with better touch typist, but much faster than the average joe).
The same predictive software can be used with a physical kb. It already is. More than half the time, I am 2-3 words into a sentence b4 may mail program has completed the sentence for me. Then I just hit right arrow, and start on the next sentence.
 
For me, the only thing that can replace keyboard / mouse will be effective brain computer interface...
 
Lol, no.
A few years a go, HP had a sensor bar for gestures, even some of their laptops had them built-in, and failed.
This'll be the same.
 
Hey, I bought that same monitor for my remote PC, had a built-in mic, and the side detatchable mounted speakers' power supply was fed from a port on the monitor.
lots of compaq's had that back then, sold 'em at radio shack. my first personally owned system was one of those but no webcam and 17". also, those speakers, altecs if i remember right, kicked some ass for back then. still have mine kicking around somewhere...

edit: speakers were actually JBLs
 
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Mid air haptic touch feedback controllers are already a thing for designers and engineers who work with AR and VR based tool sets. This just looks like a cheaper at home version, good to see the tech coming along though.
 
Took him for a mime. Perhaps a human statue?
Crusty jugglers...

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Yes because this works SO well for typing. And on screen keyboards are SO awesome that nobody ever buys physical ones for their tablets.... /sarcasm.

I don't see the keyboard going anywhere anytime soon. It might alter its form to be more up to date but not going away entirely. Typing is here to stay. Pointing devices MIGHT move away from mice but it would require a fundamental altering of the human computer interface imo.

Even if that happened the majority of "desktop" interaction is in a business setting where wild gesticulations will get you sent to HR ;).
 
The whole joke about the death of the KB&M ignores one thing: You replace the KB&M you have have to replace the monitor. VR HMD's currently need to improve greatly before you can read on them just as clear and the current generations of Monitors are at now. So if you think about it the cost of this "new" tech would be at least $800 and we are not even talking about the new computer hardware required to run it.. The irony that laughs in the face of this prediction is there are now KB&M adapters for consoles and the FPS players there are loving the KB&M.
 
So that is what they have been doing with the other half of digital artist gloves.

Seriously though who wants to wave your hands around.... if you want a complicated but faster way of doing things buy a Intuos pro.
 
The problem with this, as with the ipads and phones, is that they are consumption devices. Not for production.

The demo in minority report is only searching and presenting. You cannot produce any valid input on it. You can hardly input a post-it note, let alone work on a dotnet project. Fat chance.

So no goodbyes just now. Except perhaps to this particular keyboard.
 
The problem with this, as with the ipads and phones, is that they are consumption devices. Not for production.

The demo in minority report is only searching and presenting. You cannot produce any valid input on it. You can hardly input a post-it note, let alone work on a dotnet project. Fat chance.

So no goodbyes just now. Except perhaps to this particular keyboard.

Exactly this becomes news when they find a way to replace a keyboard. Until someone shows me a input device that can run at around 100 WPM keyboard is still king.
 
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