Travelling with 24” Monitors

Re:Travelling with 24” Monitors by nicoburns on Sunday March 01, 2020 @07:32PM (#22460491)

> if you can touchtype fluently then VR works fine, but if not, it's going to be challenging to use.

Couldn't you just render the keyboard (+ finger positions I guess) inside the VR.

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Re:Travelling with 24” Monitors by georgewsinger on Sunday March 01, 2020 @10:53PM (#22461521)

FWIW Simula (shown above) has a mouse & keyboard view. Here's a short video showing what it looks like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5c3Hfp8Hcw

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Re:Travelling with 24” Monitors by all2 on Sunday March 01, 2020 @07:48PM (#22460576)

Use chording! Chording is (maybe?) similar to sign language and so "glyphs" or "chords" could be recognized by camera or finger position sensors.

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Re:Travelling with 24” Monitors by techntoke on Monday March 02, 2020 @04:25AM (#22462916)

I think finger position sensors would be more ideal than camera recognition, since there are many times your fingers could become obfuscated behind other fingers or if you rotate your hand. RFID tags are cheap and can use passive power. I imagine with a bracelet transmitter and positioning device they could be tracked in real time and attached to the finger tips using a reusable adhesive. Should require minimal calibration and then would allow for new touch inputs for almost any device that is calibrated along with it. Could even make regular monitors touch screen.

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