From: Jeremy Lee Subject: Re: TECH: Text interfaces Date: Sun, 26 Jul 92 04:09:22 EST In article you write: >jwt!bbs-airwick@peora.sdc.ccur.com (Eric Van Hensbergen) writes: > >>Effectively, it would seem we would need to shut down the environment >>(at least from the users' perspective) whenever he needed to give >>input from the keyboard (I believe this is how REND386 handles text >>i/o). Is there any way around this???? > >Perhaps the simplest way would be to just select from menus with the glove. >After all, 2 million Mac users can't be wrong (or can they?). Most certainly they can!!! Archimedes users on the other hand.... I think I've solved that problem too, along with the basic problem of guesture recognition, but I as yet haven't done any testing, and I wouldn't mind turing it into a thesis or paper when the time came. But, if all goes well, I might eventually announce a doable, simple way to implement textual input within a VR. (With no recourse to external keyboards, or VR keyboards on which, given the lack of tactical response, it would be difficult to type on.) Let me work on it for a month or so, and see if it's already been done.. *********************************************************************** * . Jeremy Lee s047@sand.sics.bu.oz.au Student of Everything * * /| "Where the naked spotless intelect is without * * /_| center or circumference. Look to the light, * * / |rchimedes Leland, look to the light" - Dale Cooper * ***********************************************************************