I've tried a few different devices of this sort and the problem with all of them, and gesture enabled track pads to a degree, is predictability. If I use a mouse or a trackpoint, the behavior I get is predictable and consistent. These devices are a crap shoot. Even if they correctly interpret the gesture 99 times out of 100, you have to be vigilant against that one error. That interferes with the normal speed and efficiency boost you get from muscle memory and disrupts your thought process.
My other beef with them is the lack of tactile feedback. If I click a button, I feel the click. That does not exist with all this hand waving.
I'm skeptical about this knowing whether you were typing or not and misinterpreting your typing as the mouse movements. All they show in the promotional video is people doing the mouse movements with no typing.
what gestures are you hoping to implement with this? will it cover both sides of the ergodox, or at different tilt angles?
in an ideal world i think a solution like this would be more consistent
http://www.cnet.com.au/microsoft-keyboard-prototype-integrates-gesture-control-339347151.htm
I've tried a few different devices of this sort and the problem with all of them, and gesture enabled track pads to a degree, is predictability. If I use a mouse or a trackpoint, the behavior I get is predictable and consistent. These devices are a crap shoot. Even if they correctly interpret the gesture 99 times out of 100, you have to be vigilant against that one error. That interferes with the normal speed and efficiency boost you get from muscle memory and disrupts your thought process.There's one other big problem: latency.
My other beef with them is the lack of tactile feedback. If I click a button, I feel the click. That does not exist with all this hand waving.
The only motions I need is to be able to point, click, and scroll documents. For any precise movement when using a graphical tool, I would always use a mouse.
what gestures are you hoping to implement with this? will it cover both sides of the ergodox, or at different tilt angles?
in an ideal world i think a solution like this would be more consistent
http://www.cnet.com.au/microsoft-keyboard-prototype-integrates-gesture-control-339347151.htm
I think my ideal setup would be to make the pointing device as modular as possible, instead of hardwired into a keyboard.
The only motions I need is to be able to point, click, and scroll documents. For any precise movement when using a graphical tool, I would always use a mouse.
I want to use it with my left hand(I use my mouse with my right hand). Some my right hand can have a rest when I am just browsing the internet.
this is my current setupShow Image(http://i.imgur.com/JV3FBsz.jpg)
Look forward to your review, seems to be the best incarnation of that type of technology I've seen. The latency on the video didn't seem like much, but in actual use it may be much more noticeable.Really? To me the video looks like it has about a half second of latency. (Which for me personally is way too much. I want like 50 milliseconds tops, ideally more like 10-20 ms.)
what does that thing on top of your kinesis do? is that a platform for your mouse?