If I can keep my hands on the keyboard all the time, life gets a whole lot better.
Next steps after that would be programmers coding away with their minds..?
Imagine literally being able to work anywhere. On the beach, climbing a mountain, anywhere the hardware works.
So programmers of the future might just look like high-tech monks meditating.
One day we will all be gods.
Or the entire world will be our cubicle.
On the obituary "Lost grip due to an auto-play ad at full volume...". ;)
Personally, I'd really like to be able to use something like this for CAD design / performing operations on 3D models. :)
For bonus points, multi-user interactive product design sessions.
That should help to reduce iteration time in product development.
Why not measure the minute signals of the mouth to predict word commands instead of hand movements?
An example would be complex poses such as the "gun" shape with a hand as opposed to "pouting" your lips, there's so much opportunity to finely tune the motion from open hand to gun shape but it's more linear with pouting. However I'm not sure where or how the "thinking" part would play into this, eg physical muscle movements vs intention of muscle movements.
And there might just be too much noise and involuntary mouth movements that would make it impractical (eg, breathing, swallowing), plus the fact you'd look like a psychopath mumbling to yourself.