Amazing keyboards? Surely you will not be indifferent to the writing idea that they are working on at Microsoft

Microsoft continues to work on the future in the short, medium and long term. We talk about _hardware_ but also about _software_. We are not referring, therefore, to a possible SUrface Phone or to new desktop computers or tablets. The latest patent we know of from the company refers to the way we write on our devices, especially when they are related to writing on the screen.

And it is that from Redmond they are devising a new text entry method that facilitates the task, especially when we use a Xbox One or Windows Mixed Reality glasses.An alternative that seeks to be more efficient than the uncomfortable keyboard shown on the screen through which we move with the joystick. Has anyone ever felt frustrated?.

Although this is the most widely used method (along with Dvorak), the QWERTY type interface that is displayed on the screen of almost all devices is uncomfortableScrolling through it to write with the joystick or mouse is real hell, especially if you haven't worked well in that environment. A model designed to be used with our fingers, completely, clearly unnatural

The idea they are working on at Microsoft is new. It's about creating a radial-shaped interface similar to the one already offered by the Surface Dial. The difference is that control here is via a joystick, presumably an addition to a new controller for the Xbox One or Windows Mixed Reality headset.

With this control, you could move around the entire circumference using the joystick In addition, the interface would use _machine learning_ to learn with the use and thus anticipate the letters that we are going to use to show them highlighted and facilitate their selection.

This is a new interface that could improve accessibility for some users and that would be complementary to the use of the keyboard and mouse, which As we have seen recently, it is being enabled on the Redmond consoles.

In addition, it is a keyboard that personally reminded me, on a trip back in time, of those daring keyboards that we saw at the beginning of the millennium when Nokia was still splitting the cod in telephony.Keyboards such as the Nokia 3650 or the Nokia 7600 offer a groundbreaking design at the time that tried to make us leave the pre-established until then. Later they had no development, but the idea stayed there.

For the rest we don't know if finally these patents on which they work will end up becoming a reality or if, on the contrary, they will occupy a space in some drawer of spoiled products. We will have to wait.

Via | Windows Central