Gamasutra: In announcing the closing of a new, $6 million round of Series C financing today, touchscreen keyboard software maker Swype mentioned plans to integrate its technology into game controllers in the future.
Sascha Segan writes: This starts out sounding really silly, but it has a real use. At Mobile World Congress today I encountered touch-keypad firm Swype, who said they're working on a Kinect-like version that lets you type by waving your hands in the air.
Swype, of course, are the folks with the Android smartphone keypad where you drag your finger across a whole word rather than ever picking it up. They showed me a demo based on a Nintendo Wii controller, which was amusing enough: I had to get a little blue line to track correctly across a keyboard while flicking my wrist. But the sensor-based version will be even more amusing.
The real use for this, of course, is in TV and DVR interfaces. Typing long program names on DVRs right now is a unique kind of hell, and Swype is trying to find ways to speed up the process.
Swype also showed me a new version they're working on with predictive text, for people who prefer to hunt and peck rather than Swyping. That made me realize that...
