A friend of mine was a Program Manager on Xbox that worked on some HCI projects like the original Kinect.
He told me there was once an experimental keyboard that used the two thumbsticks on an Xbox controller like a dual radial menu to input text - the left thumbstick would select a character group, and the right thumbstick would input a character from that group.
The learning curve was deemed too steep for the average customer, but apparently those who spent enough time using the prototype were able to type an order of magnitude faster than with traditional on-screen keyboards.
The memory sticks out as an amusing idea, and potentially a really cool "power-user" input modality for game controllers.
He told me there was once an experimental keyboard that used the two thumbsticks on an Xbox controller like a dual radial menu to input text - the left thumbstick would select a character group, and the right thumbstick would input a character from that group.
The learning curve was deemed too steep for the average customer, but apparently those who spent enough time using the prototype were able to type an order of magnitude faster than with traditional on-screen keyboards.
The memory sticks out as an amusing idea, and potentially a really cool "power-user" input modality for game controllers.