From: stgprao@st.unocal.COM (Richard Ottolini)
Subject: Re: APPS: VR word proccesing?
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1993 15:34:52 GMT
Message-ID: <1993Jan13.153452.16902@unocal.com>
Organization: Unocal Corporation



In article <1j0e5iINNe9a@shelley.u.washington.edu>
nybakken@world.std.com (Kris Nybakken) writes:

>Well, in the overall VR picture, I think that keyboards are extremely
>overrated.  The direction that I believe that we should all be looking
>is speech recognition.  This person's word processing app would let
>them babble on for a couple pages, then they could stop and say
>"Review", and see the whole text like it was going to look in the
>magazine.  They could then point to the word _blemish_ [show visual
>feedback] and say "replace with scar"; "move paragraph down";
>"reference to synonyms"; whatever.

Or gesture recognition in sign language.

This was done in a project at Stanford in the early days of VR.  The
idea was a computer I/O device for blind/deaf people using a VR glove
(input) and mechanical hand (output).