ZDNet

Virtual Keyboard allows typing anywhere

Call it typing the light fantastic. Start-up Virtual Devices has developed a flashlight-size gadget that projects an image of a keyboard on any surface and lets people input data by typing on the ...
Michigan Technological University

Virtual Reality Typing Lights Up Ideas and Keyboards

Several computer scientists are presenting their work on using head-mounted displays for text input at CHI 2017. What's better than a holographic keyboard? A real one, apparently. New research from ...
GizChina

Meta holds a virtual keyboard typing competition

Zuckerberg also posted a video on Instagram showing a typing competition based on computer vision and mixed reality technology. According to Meta CEO, Reality Labs' research can turn any flat surface ...
AppleInsider

Apple awarded PrimeSense patent for 3D virtual keyboard that would allow typing on air

While the reason behind Apple's acquisition of PrimeSense remains unknown, the Cupertino company was awarded a PrimeSense patent on Tuesday describing 3D camera system allowing for an entirely new ...
Inverse

Here’s What Air Typing Is Like on the Apple Vision Pro’s Virtual Keyboard

Even having tried the Apple Vision Pro briefly in three separate sessions, we still have yet to see how certain parts of the visionOS software works. You can read my hands-on with the Vision Pro at ...
MarketWatch

This $72 ‘virtual laser projection keyboard’ turns flat surfaces into a keyboard, so you can more easily type with your phone or tablet. Here’s what happened when I tried it.

You know when you need to feverishly respond to an email, but you’re on your mobile phone, which means you have to type an essay with your thumbs? Or when you get a plum work project while you’re out, ...
Computerworld

Virtual Keyboard amazes, but does it make sense?

The iTech Bluetooth Virtual Keyboard is a little black box the size of a large disposable cigarette lighter that projects a full-size QWERTY keyboard onto a flat surface. It uses Bluetooth technology ...
ZDNet

Virtual keyboard promises easy iPad typing

Researchers at the University of Technology, Sydney have developed a keyboard that lets users type faster on touchscreen devices like the iPad. Primary inventor Christian Sax and co-inventor Hannas ...
Macworld

Can’t figure out how to type a character on a Mac? It’s time for the virtual keyboard

As a long-time Mac user, I once had to rely on Key Caps, an early Mac helper that would show you where special characters hid on a keyboard. Holding down Option and Shift-Option would reveal the ...
Science Daily

Physical keyboards make virtual reality typing easier

What's better than a holographic keyboard? A real one, apparently. New research delves into the different ways to type in a virtual reality (VR) space. Cranking out text is an integral part of our ...
TechCrunch

Tilt gesture keyboard could hold promise for typing in VR

Keyboard nerds like me could become a dying breed if the voice-controlled future accelerates at us quite as quickly as companies like Alexa-owning Amazon hope. But in the interim, with screens still ...