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Offline Melvang

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This thing is awesome
« on: Sun, 13 July 2014, 23:20:22 »
http://diply.com/trendyjoe/have-you-always-wanted-be-a-jedi-come-september/43593/1

I would be very curious on real world usage stats for this thing once/if it goes live.  Also I wonder if it would have the dexterity and sensitivity function as a keyboard.  Think of it this way.  You could use any keyboard (not plugged in) simply as a prop and you type with these arm bands on and all keystrokes register on screen. 

Thoughts on this tech?
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Re: This thing is awesome
« Reply #1 on: Sun, 13 July 2014, 23:27:33 »
LOL giving a presentation - some of the guys I work with wave their arms around so much we'd get dizzy from the slides flashing back and forth :))
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Re: This thing is awesome
« Reply #2 on: Sun, 13 July 2014, 23:48:51 »
LOL giving a presentation - some of the guys I work with wave their arms around so much we'd get dizzy from the slides flashing back and forth :))

In one of the videos they show that you can set up a gesture to temporarily disable it.
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Re: This thing is awesome
« Reply #3 on: Mon, 14 July 2014, 00:00:09 »
Awesome..  can't wait for the implant version..

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Re: This thing is awesome
« Reply #4 on: Mon, 14 July 2014, 00:11:55 »
I like this. The first thing I thought of was combining it with the Rift. Looks like they thought of that already (and obviously so). I can't wait for all these goodies!!
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