{"id":259,"date":"2006-09-07T00:03:09","date_gmt":"2006-09-07T00:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cb.nowan.net\/wblog\/?p=259"},"modified":"2008-01-08T23:34:14","modified_gmt":"2008-01-08T22:34:14","slug":"quickwrite-in-vr-the-sources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cb.nowan.net\/blog\/2006\/09\/07\/quickwrite-in-vr-the-sources\/","title":{"rendered":"Quickwrite in VR : The sources"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here are <a href=\"http:\/\/cb.nowan.net\/files\/quickwrite_retail.cmo\">the sources<\/a> (Virtools .cmo) for the <a href=\"http:\/\/cb.nowan.net\/blog\/index.php\/2006\/08\/14\/237-how-to-input-text-in-vr-quickwrite-using-a-trackir\">VR QuickWrite<\/a>, released under the <a href=\"http:\/\/sam.zoy.org\/wtfpl\/\">WTFPL license<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\\\\\\\"http:\/\/mrl.nyu.edu\/~perlin\/experiments\/quikwriting\/ql.gif\\\\\\\" alt=\\\\\\\"\\\\\\\" \/>     <img src=\\\\\\\"http:\/\/www.4gamer.net\/review\/trackir_4_pro\/img\/02s.jpg\\\\\\\" alt=\\\\\\\"\\\\\\\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\\\\\\\"http:\/\/mrl.nyu.edu\/~perlin\/experiments\/quikwriting\/Quikwrite2.html\\\\\\\">QuickWrite<\/a> is an input method created by <a href=\\\\\\\"http:\/\/mrl.nyu.edu\/~perlin\/\\\\\\\">Ken Perlin<\/a> so that \\\\\\&#8221;you shouldn\\\\\\&#8217;t ever need to pick up the pen (ie: no clicking, only gliding).\\\\\\&#8221;<br \/>\nI really like this input method and think it might be useful for symbolic input in VWs.<\/p>\n<p>So today I played in Virtools with the idea of using <a href=\\\\\\\"http:\/\/www.naturalpoint.com\/trackir\/\\\\\\\">Natural Point\\\\\\&#8217;s TrackIR<\/a> as an input device. Of course any 3DOF (it needs only 2DOF) tracker would fit (the Wii-mote for example). <\/p>\n<p>Here\\\\\\&#8217;s a <a href=\\\\\\\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=FSiKkZhkhlU\\\\\\\">video<\/a> (<a href=\\\\\\\"http:\/\/cb.nowan.net\/images\/VRquickWrite.avi\\\\\\\">slightly higher quality<\/a> (6.4mb) ) of my experiment. I\\\\\\&#8217;m quite a beginner at this input method but it\\\\\\&#8217;s really easy to learn and write fast. <\/p>\n<p>The 3rd dimension could be used to switch the output characters (uppercase, numerical, punctuation etc). <\/p>\n<p>Read on for more infos about QuickWrite.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,19],"tags":[34,82,211],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cb.nowan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cb.nowan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cb.nowan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cb.nowan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cb.nowan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cb.nowan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cb.nowan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cb.nowan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cb.nowan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}