Re:Ask HN: Show me your half baked project
by toroskilly on Saturday January 09, 2021 @06:24PM
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Any chance you could get the vr cameras to recognize a physical keyboard (not necessarily plugged in) and map the virtual keyboard over the top? Obviously it relies on the user sitting at a desk. But it would provide physical feedback.
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Re:Ask HN: Show me your half baked project
by brendan0powers on Saturday January 09, 2021 @09:40PM
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This is doable. I'm using the Quest, so you don't have access to the camera images, but you can do a calibration phase where you figure out how a user's hands map to keys. I'm not sure the hand tracking is accurate enough for non-touch typers though. There's some work being done for Bluetooth keyboard support when you're sitting at a desk.