[ExI] Single-hand touch typing in Ender's Game

Florent Berthet florent.berthet at gmail.com
Fri Nov 15 16:31:14 UTC 2013


This is feasible.

Look at this concept that could work by using a head-mounted display such
as the Oculus Rift with either VR gloves or a kinect-like motion capture
system: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rs9kocefwaA


2013/11/15 Eugen Leitl <eugen at leitl.org>

> On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 10:56:57AM -0500, Odell Huff wrote:
>
> > Dear Cave Shadows--I'm a twenty-year lurker on this list and this is my
> > first post, or question rather. In the (enthralling!) movie, Ender types
>
> Two-decade lurker, that's got to be a new record.
>
> > complete-sentence emails with one hand on a touch screen. Does this
> > technology actually exist, or could it? I was thinking I would very much
> > like to take notes mobilely, on say an iPhone, the writing equivalent to
> a
> > micro recorder. It seems to me the tech would be easy, the hard part
> might
> > be having to learn to type like a court reporter...
>
> You mean a chorded keyboard on a multitouch device?
>
>
> http://labs.teague.com/2012/02/08/doug-engelbarts-chorded-keyboard-as-a-multi-touch-interface/
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