Briefly around 2010 I got a chance to try out one of the final-version Google Glass units, and although the Google Glass itself was fucking terrible, it convinced me that a covert bone conduction headphone clipped to your glasses and paired to your phone, which you send commands/queries to by tapping in Morse code either on the surface of your phone or on some sort of smart ring and which responds by TTS in the bonephone, would be really cool
@emaytch I use computers so I can talk to people without having to use my voice and now the computer companies want me to operate the computer using my voice. What the fuck is going on here
@mcc if i were better at programming i would be tempted to get some sort of capacitive bodymod that would let me surreptiously tap my fingers together to type out stuff in morse code. that would be my ideal interface AND cyberpunk as hell
@mcc I have a setup kind of like this! xReal Air Pro 2 glasses for the display, AfterSkohz OpenMove bone conduction headphones for audio, and a Tap XR for input. I don't have TTS set up yet, but I was thinking that's the next step. The thing that's holding me back on that is that I don't have a great TTS-compatible way to navigate and edit code. I should try setting it up for something easier like texting, though.
@brandon@mcc How has the Tap XR been for you? I found the Tap Strap 2 kinda useless in the end because I couldn't set up all the key combos I needed for my daily use.
@mauve@mcc It's an awesome device, but I have the same problem. It's made for English text entry and using it for programming requires just way too many keys to be available. I'm developing a custom key mapping, but really it needs some changes to the firmware to be practical. However, I think the fault really lies in the way we write and edit code and not the input methodology. We should be working on making programming more like natural text input and less on enabling esoteric key combos.
@mauve@brandon I have a Tap Strap 2 and I just can't seem to get it to work. Even if I know what to do it doesn't seem to recognize my inputs. I don't know if I'm just doing it wrong or if it has overly fuzzy input, but I watched some videos and what I'm doing doesn't seem different.
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