Mark Gurman on Twitter - The Vision Pro virtual keyboard is a complete write-off at least in 1.0. You have to poke each key one finger at a time like you did before you learned how to type. There is no magical in-air typing. Apple Vision

https://twitter.com/markgurman/status/1745907431564063208?

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u/senkaichi Jan 13 '24

Seems like a “swift key” like approach would work well, basically motioning your hand fluidly through the virtual keys

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u/andrew_stirling Jan 13 '24

You know what else would work? A physical keyboard. This reminds me of Xbox Kinect. Trying to simulate a button press with an exaggerated gesture. After a while everyone realised that the best way to play games was sitting down with a controller. Like it has been for years.

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u/variablesInCamelCase Jan 13 '24

I mean, if all you're doing is playing cod, sure.

But I wanna be a jedi and swing my lightsaber around. I want to throw out my hand and force choke an imperial officer that talked too much crap.

Even something like vr resident evil would be stellar.

To paraphrase Ford, "If I asked the people what they wanted, they'd have asked for faster horses."

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u/andrew_stirling Jan 13 '24

Yeah that’s always been the marketing. But in reality all it results in is gimmicks. Unless you have a football field sized space to run around in, traversal is always going to be immersion breaking.

Anyway….we’ve already been down that road with the Wii and Kinect. After a few years everyone figured out they just wanna chill when gaming.

As for VR and gaming…. It’s not new. It’s been around for years. It hasn’t really taken off. It’s not really anything to do with technology…people just don’t really want to do it. Oh and it makes a good chunk of people sick because there’s a disconnect between what the body is experiencing and what the brain thinks is going on.

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u/tomsawing Jan 13 '24

Resident Evil 4, 7, Village (8), and 4 Remake all have VR versions.

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u/senkaichi Jan 15 '24

Eventually when the headset is small enough and passthrough is good enough, sure. But yea VR is very much still in its early stages and there are compromises for now. Eventually VR/AR will take over though.

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u/andrew_stirling Jan 15 '24

Been hearing exactly that for over a decade now. 🙄

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u/senkaichi Jan 15 '24

A decade is not that long for newer technology. It will prob be another 1-2 decades for VR/AR to be more common place and a more mature market unless a major breakthrough happens that triggers a more rapid advancement

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u/burnertybg Jan 13 '24

This but with the eye tracking perhaps.

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u/1l9m9n0o Jan 13 '24

Just put the Hawking software thingy in it.

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u/JustinGitelmanMusic Jan 13 '24

Dystopian people conducting symphonies mid air lmao