As if I don't have bad enough RSI already. (Although a diverse repertoire of gestures might actually be better than repetitive taps)
Meta Unveils Wristband for Controlling Computers with Hand Gestures
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#12For those curious meta actually bought out a company that orginally pioneered this idea (wrist controller) from a company called CTRL+Labs in 2019. Here is a verge article that has some photos of the prototype from CTRL-Labs. https://www.theverge.com/2018/6/6/17433516/ctrl-labs-brain-c...
https://archive.md/j0d78 Another company doing this (mentioned in the Verge article) was Thalmic Labs, a YC company from 2013, which was acquired by Google in 2020. I remember seeing their presentation at YC Demo Day and it was jaw-dropping stuff; one of the only demos I still remember, 12 years on. It's sad to see they didn't make it as a commercial success, and is a grim reminder that brilliant innovation doesn't a…
Pretty sure Thalmic sold the tech to CTRL+. I’ve still got one of the bands knocking around somewhere. It was cool tech, but really wasn’t ready for a product.
Thalmic then became North to make smart glasses and then got sold to Google
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#13Very little info about its capability. How many distinct gestures does it have? Is it sophisticated enough to allow typing?
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#14It's not the 1980s. Dropping this in the nytimes seems very underwhelming.
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#15Can I map the middle finger or is already built in?
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#16Very little info about its capability. How many distinct gestures does it have? Is it sophisticated enough to allow typing?
If it were that would be the headline
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#17I'm a bit surprised that Meta didn't choose to announce a brand name for it yet, so the article just refers to it throughout as "Meta’s wristband".
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#18I would say such inventions are as old as 30 years when i first heard of startups / inventors trying to do such stuff. Obviously the tech must be now much more mature. Still, it never got off back then because typing was magnitudes faster than what ever you could do with your hands alone. Learning to do such hand motions had a similiar fate as why alt keyboard layouts always stayed niche - most people have no patience to learn that complicated stuff when they already have learned something early on that works.
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#19So I guess the Kinect has vanished from everyone's memory
From mine certainly. Funny how fast we forget about tech that was for years pretty common and then completely disappeared as it turned out be be a fad.