I find speaking to computers (say Alexa, Siri, Cortana, …) to be tiring compared to speaking with people and slower than typing.
Typing in VR with visual tracking or controllers is practical if you need to log into something or bash out a Tweet, but you want to get a real keyboard aligned with your space if you are going to type much.
The myoelectric device that was used with Meta’s Orion demo could lead to something better, you can get signals from a EEG or my electric array and train it and train the human to communicate in symbols across it. With a direct brain interface, do any better.
Some of my distinct style as an HN commenter comes from my perpetual fight with my iPad. I am sitting in the couch holding it in landscape mode with two hands and typing with just two thumbs. I can do it crazy fast. The text input system has a predictive model which catches and fixes many mistakes that I make (don’t want to turn it off) but also injects errors of its own. (It just did it.). I don’t catch all of these so you find grammatically probable but semantically wrong errors all over what I write.
I actually tend to do a lot of coding in bed and would love this kind of setup. Or while on an airplane where space is a premium (I hate having my laptop on that stupid tray table).
Pair the glasses with bone conductive headphones and you could be immersed in your world without the silliness of the Apple Vision. And you wouldn’t have to turn anything off during takeoffs or landings…
if it could be refined to the point where it'd be as capable as smartphone thumb typing and deployed as a standalone input device would be a real game changer.
Basically, it makes the errors harder to spot and the search space to find what was meant larger.
> There’s some dispute over how and why Sholes and Glidden arrived at the QWERTY layout. Some historians have argued that it solved a jamming problem by spacing out the most common letters in English; others, particularly more recent historians, hold that it was designed specifically to help telegraphists avoid common errors when transcribing Morse code.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/origins-qwerty-key...
edit: ok, waving your arms around all day might be good for the delts and lats, but shoulder RSI is no better than hand RSI.
Operating large amount of keys with all your fingers to compose and invoke complex commands is a powerful idea - especially given that people can and do learn to navigate complex systems this way intuitively, in the same way drivers eventually internalize the interface and stop thinking about it.
Having those buttons labeled with letters in a particular layout - that's not where the power of this input method comes from. Perhaps it was a necessary Schelling point, though - QWERTY keyboard is a good default. Without it, computer vendors would be tempted to experiment with their input panels, get creative with controls, making them effectively unique per model.
I swear, every time I have to use a Mac and the End key accidentally goes to the end of the document instead of the end of the line, I get a picture in my head of this smug looking guy in a black turtleneck laughing at me.
(And yes, Mac people, I know about Karabiner. Don't bother telling me how I can adapt or how great and superior your Mac is.)
Surprised to hear that there is a user of this button. I don't think I've ever used them, and in the last decade or so I've bought keyboards that don't have them at all.
Ctrl-end to end of document, used by most other OS, is a lot more sane. There was absolutely NO technical reason to change this behavior, other than to stockholm Apple users who might think of leaving the ecosystem.
There might be some configuration or third party software I can use to emulate it, but on windows I can treat space delimited words and lines with much more granularity than I can on macOS
Windows and Linux have absolutely nothing on OSX's consistency.
well there you go, youve lost the majority of people who use computers. If you use emacs and/or vim or their various flavors then you are the equivalent of an f1 driver questioning why anyone uses an automatic vehicle.
Id posit the fact that in my day jobs where I am issued a mac laptop that then plugs into a kvm switch where the keyboard does not match the same key commands as the OS unless I set up a ._ file, and that this has happened at multiple jobs going back to pre covid era, as a sign that macOS is actually a worse user experience.
The customer is always right after all
typewriter
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sholes_and_Glidden_typewriter#...
Wikipedia editors' tendency to duplicate information in sub-section summaries is a great pain, due largely to this problem - who keeps the editorial voice, references, etc. consistent across all these non-linked articles?
Oh. It's just a virtual keyboard in VR/AR with phone-type word completion. The title suggests something more like this scene in Minority Report.[1]
Personally I couldn't work longer than half an hour with the device. There's something about needing to position your fingers in a precise location in space that's particularly tiring.