We were talking about Pans the other day...
The subject came up about how personal wireless devices are controlled.
Suppose you have a character with a comlink, and contact lenses equipped with vision mag, for example.
With no other equipment, he has basically 2 ways of controlling his magnification:
1) pushing buttons on his comlink, and
2) Sticking his finger in his eye.
We discussed that most runner want a less annoying method of controlling PAN devices than #2, so most would use:
1) Comlink buttons
2) -
3) AR gloves and an Image link to interact with control Arrows.
4) Trodes for DNI control.
5) Datajack for DNI control.
Do we see this correctly in folks' opinions? We miss anything?
Other funny mental images involved a runner attempting to tune his earplug select sound filter by sticking his finger in his ear.
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6) Control it directly through Technomancer Powers. 
| QUOTE (Lantzer) |
| Other funny mental images involved a runner attempting to tune his earplug select sound filter by sticking his finger in his ear. |
Nah, it'd be better with a phillips head screwdriver
I don't think much would be done for a cyber eye with a commlink, except diagnostics and such. Those are usually DNI.
| QUOTE (Lantzer @ Oct 1 2006, 03:12 PM) |
| We were talking about Pans the other day... The subject came up about how personal wireless devices are controlled. Suppose you have a character with a comlink, and contact lenses equipped with vision mag, for example. With no other equipment, he has basically 2 ways of controlling his magnification: 1) pushing buttons on his comlink, and 2) Sticking his finger in his eye. We discussed that most runner want a less annoying method of controlling PAN devices than #2, so most would use: 1) Comlink buttons 2) - 3) AR gloves and an Image link to interact with control Arrows. 4) Trodes for DNI control. 5) Datajack for DNI control. Do we see this correctly in folks' opinions? We miss anything? Other funny mental images involved a runner attempting to tune his earplug select sound filter by sticking his finger in his ear. |
I think it's as you describe it. Most people would fiddle with the controls on their commlink. I see the user interface for these being more sophisticated and easier than today. You'd probably have a clitoris like selector (as in the mouse you get on certain laptops, not the girly bit it gets its name from), that lets you whizz through optiion menus to get what you want. Remember that 2070 is described as having quite high illiteracy and making frequent use of icons. You'd probably have a few extra buttons for standard operations and you'd probably be amazed at the speed with which the 2070 user shoots through menus and makes choices. The speed with which we can txt ( I speak as a master), will be nothing compared to this.
For those tasks that are more sophisticated, I see people donning the gloves and interacting directly with AR. This will be for more intensive or sustained tasks, i.e. often those not done walking around but for work or leisure. Think of Tom Cruise in the Minority Report when he puts on his gloves for manipulating the big data search screen thing. I would imagine a well designed GUI in AR would be blisteringly fast to control.
Of course if you have DNI, then you're just thinking at your devices and nothing's going to compare with that.
DNI is certainly the best available option.
I can see voice commands work.
Also, if the lenses have smartlink, I would allow eye gestures
.
(like mouse gestures, but with the eyes.)
I can see voice commands work.
Also, if the lenses have smartlink, I would allow eye gestures
.(like mouse gestures, but with the eyes.)
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