Quick fingers and lightning reflexes can help you win virtual battles when playing against real or computer-generated opponents in computer games. One way to increase your speed is to play using keys ...

One of my colleagues is using a Venue 11 tablet running Windows 8.1 on which he customized one of the virtual keyboards to always show the function keys (e.g. F1, F2, etc.) without having to press the ...

Apple Computer has filed patents for a "smart" touch-screen virtual keyboard, a two-way screen and technology that enables an iPod and host device to wirelessly operate as one. One recently published ...

As a long-time Mac user, I once had to rely on Key Caps, an early Mac helper that would show you where special characters hid on a keyboard. Holding down Option and Shift-Option would reveal the ...

Apple famously dispensed with a physical keyboard when it revolutionized the smartphone market, and the company’s long-term goal appears to be to do the same for laptops. A succession of patents have ...

VMware Fusion enables Mac users to run Microsoft Windows and Linux operating systems on their Intel-based Apple Macintosh computers, turn an existing PC into a virtual computer on a Mac and run ...

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The idea of a virtual keyboard isn’t new, we’ve had projection keyboards in market on and off for years, but they never sold well. But with the advent of Mixed Reality and, thanks to Smartphones, a ...

(1) An on-screen keyboard that is used with a mouse. An accessibility option for people with impairments, the keys are pressed by pointing to the key on screen and clicking the mouse. (3) A full ...

Motion-based controllers and gamepads are the go-to solution for most virtual reality applications due to their usefulness in games. The problem is that not all virtual reality applications are games.

Does this problem sound familiar? You’re carrying a mobile phone and typing text messages using the keypad and the T9 word recognition software. At some point, at the 100th word, the process gets ...

Apple is working on multiple methods to use a keyboard with a pair of augmented reality glasses or other head-mounted device, including virtual keyboards projected onto surfaces. In a patent ...