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In article <eZFm4#2QXrzQ=eric@snark.UUCP> eric@snark.UUCP (Eric S. Raymond) writes:
>In article <264@gloom.uucp>, cory@gloom.UUCP (Cory Kempf) writes:
>> The other article that I wrote gave a nice discription of how I
>> envision the next generation of userinterfaces to work.
>
>Neat description, but I spot a major problem. With no tactile feedback on
>the phantom keyboards, how are ya gonna type? Are you assuming something
>like a dataglove that can generate pressure on the hand to simulate touch of
>the virtual objects? If so, realize that that is a *very* hard problem just
>from the mechanical-effector point of view.

uh, just what made you think that I was not planning on generating
feedback?  Whan I was in college, I started designing a project for an
electronics class that did just that... motion detection AND feedback.
The method that I came up with was (necessarily) a low budget
approach, but the prof seemed to think that it was  possible to
develop.  The version that I designed was a mitten approach for
simplicity, and didn't use stepper motors in order to cut costs.  One
of these days, (when I get rich) I would like a chance to build the
system the way it should be done... (I think one of the reasons that I
was able to design the system was that nobody thought to tell me that
it couldn't be done :-) )

+C


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