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Re: Character Input w/o using Hands, Voice etc.

As an en-Search & Rescue ground-pounder & an otherwise occasional
fanatic camper & hiker, I know that 1 pound in your shoe might as well
be about 8 pounds on your back (eqivalent load.)  Better glued onto your
chest or in bracelet form (opposite the watch or even built into a
watch!) unless it's extremely light...

  (So the shoe industry puts lights & LED's into tennis shoes.  Go
figure.)

  Mark Willis
  

Bill Nordstrom wrote:
> 
> For hands-free, voice free, pointer direction the best approach IMO is to
> develop an eye tracking solution.  This would require a camera or low power
> laser within the hmd that would follow the movement of the eye.  I've also seen
> experimental implementations of this that use a contact lense containing a thin
> wire in its periphery to aide in tracking.  I also remember seeing something in
> the movie "Blue Thunder" about how the comanche helicopters have an eye tracking
> system in the helmet so the pilot just has to look at something to target it.
> 
> Regarding the electrical signal transmission over the body-  There was a special
> on Scientific American Frontiers about the future of computing and they had some
> guy on that was developing a computer for your shoe that would transmit and
> recieve data using a weak electrical signal transmitted through the body
> (exchange business cards by shaking hands).
> 
> --
> Bill Nordstrom
> University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
> 5323 Harry Hines Blvd.
> Dallas, TX 75235-9039
> W:214-648-9227
> Fax: 214-648-8694
> email 
> Cooltalk:  129.112.20.190

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