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- From: s047@sand.sics.bu.oz.au (Jeremy Lee)
- Newsgroups: sci.virtual-worlds
- Subject: Re: TECH: Text interfaces
- Message-ID: <1992Jul26.075001.9275@u.washington.edu>
- Date: 26 Jul 92 09:09:22 GMT
- Article-I.D.: u.1992Jul26.075001.9275
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- Organization: University of Washington
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- Approved: cyberoid@milton.u.washington.edu
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- In article <Brrssy.Kty@watserv1.waterloo.edu> you write:
- >jwt!bbs-airwick@peora.sdc.ccur.com (Eric Van Hensbergen) writes:
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- >>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????
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- >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?).
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- Most certainly they can!!! Archimedes users on the other hand....
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- 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.)
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- Let me work on it for a month or so, and see if it's already been
- done..
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- * . Jeremy Lee s047@sand.sics.bu.oz.au Student of Everything *
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