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8pen + Leap Motion

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Re: 8pen + Leap Motion

#21

Why is the guy in the video writing stuff by waving his finger around to make cryptic symbols when there is a perfectly good keyboard only inches away! Seriously though, I agree there are practical uses for this - such as TV input or some sort of touchless kiosk (in a hospital maybe?). The video just did a poor job of showing what's what.

Or in game consoles http://8pen.com/joysticks#video

Re: 8pen + Leap Motion

#23

Reminds me of Palm's 'Graffiti', both in execution and scope: it's a stop-gap solution, possibly to a problem that no longer exists. IMO, their three suggested use-cases are quite flimsy. "...enable surgeons to take notes during an operation without removing their gloves" - They already can, it's called dictation which is subsequently transcribed by a medical secretary whose time is far less expensive. "check recipes…

I believe the best application for this will be virtual reality headsets - such as Oculus Rift, where you can have virtual screens but having a keyboard would not be practical.

Re: 8pen + Leap Motion

#24

Reminds me of Palm's 'Graffiti', both in execution and scope: it's a stop-gap solution, possibly to a problem that no longer exists. IMO, their three suggested use-cases are quite flimsy. "...enable surgeons to take notes during an operation without removing their gloves" - They already can, it's called dictation which is subsequently transcribed by a medical secretary whose time is far less expensive. "check recipes…

Yeah, and I'd say the recipe navigation (and similar use cases) is better served by a voice interface.

Re: 8pen + Leap Motion

#27
8pen is neat, but i'm still not entirely convinced it can be that fast an input method. I've started using it semi-recently (last month or so), as it seemed better than using a touchscreen keyboard (swype is an okay solution, but I prefer to avoid imprecise input when possible).

I'm getting faster, but it seems that I will need to dedicate a fair bit more time to it before it will be that practical as an input method.

I really wish companies would just continue making nice phones with hard keyboards, would make my life easier. :(

Re: 8pen + Leap Motion

#28
post #26

What if we embraced ASL? (random thought)

Aside from a lack of range, I doubt the Leap can handle it. From my experience it routinely treats fingers held together as a single "pointable" instance. There will be a good number of ASL conditions it won't recognize.
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