Virtual keyboard

[wilkie79]

I don't know if his has been thought of before but my idea is to implement a virtual keyboard when searching in VR.

What I would like to see is that when the search box has focus, a holographic keyboard is displayed and an image of a semi-transparent hand appears that we can use to navigate across the keyboard to input our destinations.

If a commander doesn't want to see the keyboard displayed, an option in the settings to toggle whether the keyboard is displayed could also be added.

Or we could use the keyboard that is already on most ships to type destinations.

 

[Magic Man]

Good idea.

 

[wilkie79]

Looks like we might have to wait until 2.3 or later before we see a virtual keyboard implemented into the game for VR users.

 

[Lestat]

I like the idea. Also make it touch screen. Which would also be cool.

 

[Bladerunner GB]

Already implemented in the Xbox version (although in a very basic non holographic way) as Xbone only has a controller. So maybe not as much work as anticipated.

 

[wilkie79]

Lestat

I like the idea. Also make it touch screen. Which would also be cool.​

Touch screen might be hard in VR with it being hard to see the screen to touch , but in other VR games, the keyboard is managed by the movement of the head to navigate over the keys, so a floating hand might look cool.

Bladerunner GB

Already implemented in the Xbox version (although in a very basic non holographic way) as Xbone only has a controller. So maybe not as much work as anticipated.​

If they already have a version of a virtual keyboard on another platform, it makes you wonder why they haven't already implemented it into VR yet, with the VR version being released the same time as the PC version.

 

[Loworbit]

https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showt...vs-add-a-virtual-keyboard-to-the-galaxy-map-!

Anything new about this?
I played on a friends Playstation 4 some days ago. The PS4 Edition has a virtual keyboard!
Hey frontier, why isn't there a virtual keyboard on the PC?!?