[9fans] re: emacs jokes

[Brandon Black photon@nol.net]

I never thought about EMT... my vision has always been basically a VR
helmet and a glove (existing hardware).  Just need the software to be
there... speech recognition for "keyboard" input and command phrases, the
glove for object manipulation (like a 3D mouse), and the head tracking for
either moving your view around in a 360 degree desktop area, or for
focus...

I sure wish interface technology would keep up with the rest of the
computer world.  When I think how fast my mind is churning out sets of
unix commands I want to type in various windows, and how fast the machine
can handle them, it becomes obvious that the user interface is really
slowing us both down.

Brandon

On Sun, 31 Aug 1997, Martin Weitzel wrote:

> > 
> > Are you thinking foot pedal or movable foot-attachment-thingy? What would
> > you call it?  The POSSUM? Hum... Microsoft possum... Logitech possum...
> > 
> > A Possum protocol!?
> 
> :-) :-)
> 
> I hope some day there will be reliable EMT-devices, i.e.
> "Eye Movement Trackers".  Why use my hands -- or feet --
> to move a "pointer" over something I'm already looking at?
> (Of course, such a EMT-device had to work from remote, I
> don't want to wear special hardware on my head.)  Then
> throw in speech recognition and we would have really new,
> cool ways to interact with a computer ...
>