Scribeam

Scribeam brings one-handed swipe typing from the smartphone world into VR. Instead of playing laser tag with a desktop-style keyboard wider than your IRL desk, simply drag your laser across the keys and it will figure out what you meant. The keyboard is sized to fit your hand and floats just in front of it, keeping your laser as accurate as possible.

Features

• Swipe-to-type

• Learns new words automatically

• Emoji search + recents

• VRChat chatbox integration

• Full support for Windows keyboard shortcuts

• Works alongside your desktop overlay of choice

Built to be social

Scribeam is for responding to pings in Discord, those days when you’re feeling a bit mute in VRChat, or jotting down a quick note for later when you take off the headset. You came for the immersion, you need a keyboard that can get out of your way and get you back to the game faster. Save the 101-key for when you really need it, like responding to the guy who is still wrong after 17 messages in that thread. You know the one.

The layout is designed to keep the symbols you use for conversation front and center. Recently used emoji are just a click away, or swipe to search for the perfect one.

Inside VRChat, the keyboard automatically sends directly to the in-game chatbox, letting you keep both hands six levels deep in your Expressions menu. When you need to interact with the rest of the world, switching to Desktop input is just a click away.

(Got another game you’d like to see chat integration for? Let us know!)

Always improving

When you swipe, the keyboard suggests a handful of words that look like the path you traced. The best match is typed automatically. When it makes a mistake, choosing a different suggestion will automatically backspace and replace it. Unlike on a phone where you get three suggestions at most, Scribeam makes use of the extra space in the VR environment to offer many more, reducing how often you have to erase and try swiping again.

When you have to type a word key-by-key because the keyboard doesn’t know it at all, it will learn how to let you swipe it in the future. If you choose to do so, you can help improve the keyboard for all users by sharing the words you use most often and new words you’ve taught it.

When something isn’t right, reporting an issue is only a click away. Provide details if you wish, or just select a category and get back to your conversation.

Respects your privacy

Your conversations are never sent to a cloud service. You can choose to send information about occasional, randomly selected words you’ve used to Liminetics to help improve the suggestions and swipe recognition for other users. These submissions will always be kept anonymous, will never include the context in which they were said, and will be deleted from the server as soon as possible.

Additionally, we want to assure you that while Scribeam feels intelligent if we’ve done our job, the swipe algorithm is just good old-fashioned math. There is no generative AI here, and we will never train a model using your data.

Default bindings

Opening and closing the keyboard is bound to thumbstick click on either hand. Whichever hand you use to open it is the one it will follow. Feel free to remove the binding for your non-dominant hand if you need it for other apps! You can also grab the keyboard, and resize it while grabbing by pushing the thumbstick up and down.

While typing, thumbstick selects previous/next suggestion.

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