PunchKeyboard: Typing can be a pretty difficult test, especially when you hold something on both hands, and that's especially true in virtual reality where you have to keep the game controls constantly.
A developer, however, seems to have found a very practical way to overcome this particular difficulty.
The freelance VR developer Jonathan Ravasz has developed a highly functional virtual reality keyboard that lets you type without letting go of the game controls. PunchKeyboard is essentially a visual interface input that lets you use what you hold to type VR.
Visually it looks like a graphmachine, but the app has been enhanced with auto-complete features and next word prediction to further simplify the typing process.
Virtual keyboard smart functions use as sources (currently) data from Reddit chats, but Ravasz assures that he can very easily do it from custom dictionaries.
Check out a small video on how PunchKeyboard works:
In case you want to know more about the RunchKeyboard, Ravasz has documented the application's development approach and motivation in blog of.
Ravasz has uploaded all the code and an executable demo file to his repository at GitHub, so you can access the RunchKeyboard code. The application is open source, which means you can make any changes you want.
As RoukKeyboard developer explains, game developers can easily integrate it into their games.
https://github.com/rjth/Punchkeyboard
