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by nwah1 3148 days ago
That was the same thinking behind Elon Musk's startup Neuralink, but given that there really aren't any options that are substantially better, Logitech isn't being stupid.

Perhaps some combination of voice, gesture, and 3D could be useful specifically while in-game. But for productivity, I don't think there's anything better than a traditional workstation.

Voice has privacy issues. Gesture recognition is inaccurate and causes "gorilla arm" syndrome.

3D doesn't really add much, and in fact for productivity some people think even 2D Window-based GUIs are cumbersome, and that is the entire motivation for tiling window managers. From that perspective, 3D is even more chaotic and cumbersome.

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Voice not only has privacy issues, but could you imagine working in one of those god awful “open floor plan” offices with a bunch of people speaking in JavaScript all day?
We'd all need to get the Cone of Silence.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1eUIK9CihA

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/QWERTY#History

QWERTY

All that needs to be said about the difficulty of changing a primary interface method.

Very much aware. I use colemak, because I was convinced by the arguments of QWERTY's insufficiency.

Although, the costs of switching outweigh the benefits for almost everyone, except for those with repetitive stress injury.