On: Another heavily-funded AR headset startup is shutting down

[wvenable]

I imagine you could just carry around a little keyboard or simply type into any flat surface just as you do now with a phone screen.

[magashna → wvenable]

Without tactile feedback the hologram keyboards you see in sci-fi movies will feel terrible to use.

[mustacheemperor → magashna]

I remember when the industry spent 6 years sweating over how to make real buttons emerge from the smartphone display because tapping on a flat glass screen wasn't tactile enough. Eventually someone turned that into a new, faster means of input - swipe style keyboards. Maybe we'll see something similar with AR.

[wvenable → magashna]

Without tactile feedback is how the majority of people type out text messages. In my opinion it's actually easier to type on a phone screen than a tiny smartphone keyboard (of which I had many).

But I agree. I never said AR would replace keyboards -- just screens.