d-board
RocketHands is a fledgling indie game studio, formed around the concept of jamming to prove gameplay ideas, and building upon the fruits of this labour to develop commercial-quality titles.
The d-board is a RocketHands Labs Project. It is a proof-of-concept of a new metaphor for text input that is optimised for game controllers, providing a good alternative for the traditional on-screen keyboard interface.
It uses a predictive language model to guess which characters the user is likely to enter next, in much the same way that some text compression algorithms work, but with the aim of minimising user effort (rather than minimising bits).
Credits
- Concept and coding by Kranzky
Patent this asap
Really. Just in case somenoe else does.....
Justin.
Anyone got a spare $10k so I
Anyone got a spare $10k so I can submit a patent application? But seriously, can't I claim prior art if someone else does attempt to make money from the idea? And isn't having a patent worthless anyway if you're not prepared to defend it (at potentially massive expense)?
Nah, I think I'll just continue to be open about what I'm doing, in the hope that at least something will be succesfull :)
Let us know what you think!
Let us know what you think!
Nice
That looks really cool. There may be applications for it in the mobile market as well.
- Damyan.
Thanks - it was just an idea
Thanks - it was just an idea that I wanted to get out there in the name of finishing stuff I'm interested in. This was actually pitched to SONY before the PS3 launched, but they weren't convinced it'd work for Japanese!
JA OK, Sony is the hurdle
This can work for JA but it might not speed up JA user text entry fast enough to make it an obvious efficiency improvement over a soft keyboard system. Also, as the Sony rep might have said, the app would ideally allow a secondary library of kanji/pictograph words to be offered based on the sound of the phonetic characters chosen by the user. But hey, leave it to Sony to ignore something fantastic for 16 languages because it looks less elegant in 3.