Jamie McKane
MyGaming Journalist
Logitech's new keyboard works in VR
HTC Vive and Logitech have partnered to create the Bridge SDK VR keyboard kit.
HTC Vive and Logitech have partnered to create the Bridge SDK VR keyboard kit.
Logitech's new keyboard works in VR
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HavocXphere
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WHY?
Seriously...unless you're from the typewriter age you probably don't look at the keyboard when typing anyway?
I don't get it
Seriously...unless you're from the typewriter age you probably don't look at the keyboard when typing anyway?
I don't get it
DieGrootHammer
Daddy TK
Most general people still absolutely do look at their keyboards when typing. Hell, even I look at my keyboard when typing. It's actually a rare skill to be able to do no-look typing.
Plus with a virtual keyboard a lot of games will become instantly more feasible in VR. Think about something like Elite Dangerous, that game has so many different button variations and additional buttons, that you need to use a keyboard even if you do have a joystick. With the virtual keyboard it gives you the added ability to play these games a bit simpler than currently.
HavocXphere
New member
My man are you going to write VR essays or are you going to WASD?
If you need to look to WASD you will be banished from this forum....
I rate there is a big market for VR controls. Think Minority Report opening scenes...how cool is that? Huge market...it's going to revolutionise how we interact with computers...but this thing...it's not it. The pocket laser keyboards had more cool factor to be honest.
Realistically it's going to move towards either some kind of hand/eye gesture interface or straight brain interface. I mean tech could already do basic up/down mind reading like 4 years ago. That's non-invasive tech...4 years ago. It's only a matter of time...
DieGrootHammer
Daddy TK
Well, fine yes. It'd be stupid to spend your time typing long documents and stuff in VR. That's just silly. But there are games with many more keys other than WASD. I go back to Elite Dangerous, and even Flight Simulator. Lots and lots of keyboard shotcuts and keys needed to play those games. And both those games are prime candidate to give meaning to VR tech.
That I agree 1000%
It's the holy grail of gaming input. But the tech is nowhere close to something implementable. And when I say its not ready, I don't mean the actual technology is off, but rather its implementation. Look at the Playstation Move and the Kinect, both excellent tech that absolutely can and should be coupled with VR. Yet both of those are dying or dead. The problem is that the idea of a controller or mouse and keyboard is so engrained into the very fabric of gaming that it is tough to implement something new into games. It either ends up as a half-baked attempt or just a complete mess. If it works, people look and feel stupid doing it and it doesn't get adopted again.
I say ease into the VR business. First get some controls in games, then add keyboards and stuff, then go balls to the wall with new tech.
Solitude
Mr. Nice Guy
Easy. I want to program in VR. I want to sit in the Batcave in Virtual Desktop and work with Visual Studio. Now the thing is that I don't look at the keyboard when I type. But put on that VR headset and you don't have any sense of where the keyboard is and have no peripheral vision of it and it changes things immensely.
It becomes slow to program. If I just have some vision of the keyboard then it will make things awesome.
There's nothing stupid about it. I don't think you guys realise how immersive it is. You can sit on top of a mountain with water flowing around you and you can sit in that environment and have a window open where you can type things. What better place to write a novel? You can completely escape your current surroundings.
Also the Oculus Touch controllers are amazing. You see them as hands in VR and they work exceptionally well. Even when used as a mouse or a normal game controller to picking things up and hell in two games now you can pick up a lighter, flick it on and burn stuff. But you can't type easily with them.
Oculus does come with really good voice recognition though but for commands and such. Not really for typing. At least I don't think so. But definitely not for programming.
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Oh and for games like Elite. They will start having to implement those keys in your actual environment so that you press them. The more they make it like real life the less keys you'll need.