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 ...

I ditched my PC and used Meta Quest 3 to turn every surface into a virtual keyboard — it’s futuristic, and kind of painful

Meta Quest 3's recent Horizon OS v85 PTC update lets you turn any surface into a virtual keyboard. So I ditched my PC for the ...

Meta’s Quest 3 Has the First VR Keyboard That Doesn’t Totally Suck

Typing in VR/XR is a tedious nightmare; it doesn’t matter how you’re doing it, either. Using hand tracking to pluck out each ...
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 ...
Business Insider

'What is Gboard?': Google's smart keyboard for phones and tablets, explained

Gboard, Google's virtual keyboard, is a smartphone and tablet typing app that features glide typing, emoji search, GIFs, Google Translate, handwriting, predictive text, and more. Many Android devices ...
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 ...
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, ...
MacStories

iKeyboard Promises A Better Typing Experience On The iPad

I bought an original iPad last year, and an iPad 2 when it came out in the United States on March 11. If there’s one thing I had to get used to during this last year when using the tablet, that would ...
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 ...