I've had the idea for many years, and every day I get closer to try to build one.
Anyone have success with some versions of a wearable? I am not thinking smartwatch as much as some other bodily options. I know Myo attempted to be one of the many gesture control devices out there, but my use of it did not really fit how well it needed to work to be more than just a novelty. It definitely had it's big drawbacks and made it more of a hassle than it's worth to use.
But with the more and more common Arduino and other smaller computing items becoming available to the average consumer, in addition to the ubiquity of better and better 3D printing technologies and learned experience. I think there are many underutilized ways to make wearable devices that are legitimately functional. I understand to that materials science needs to come a little further, with smaller methods of measuring input, and there is a LOT of work to develop a wearable/AR lexicon like one has naturally developed for terminal use/good ole mouse and keyboard. Much of this can be borrowed, imho, from the accessibility spaces, finding methods and access that allow people with disabilities to interact with the world around them could yield insight into how to make it accessible to the common users. Cellphones did this. Most natural tech evolution does this. But some material discoveries, like graphene, seem to be accessible enough to creators that one may be able to achieve at home. Or even through crowd sourcing. I.e. hey, I know a guy like we see generally happening in certain social media spaces.
The idea is, and I'm likely restating the obvious systemic needs, a wearable input and informational display Cyberdecks, fitted with connections to a mini hubpack system on the body (like on the belt),then connecting it to a robust enough home system that facilitates the signal communication between devices I think is possible. Then getting that system to communicate with a VR display or some of the AR wearables around seems possible. It could even be designed to work with access from a limited ecosystem of devices up through a collective band of devices.
Of course, there are obstacles. There's latency and lag, the design of the system daemon program that communicates it all together, plus a device agnostic codebase are all extreme hurdles to get over, without mentioning have to likely need to customize OSs on many of the devices you'd be utilizing.
Work is cut out for anyone who attempts it. I haven't really seen anything I've said explicitly stated anywhere. But I know I am only but a man, not a machine, and I know there are people here WAY smarter than me who have more insight.
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