How The TapXR Works

Decoding 100+ Different Finger Gestures in Real Time

The TapXR uses a combination of motion and optical sensors for hand and finger tracking, and to detect and classify finger taps and other gestures. When a finger or fingers touch a surface, a ‘tap event’ is initiated, and the sensor data is sent to an embedded neural processor, which determines which of the fingers have made contact. This information is then formatted for transmission, and sent via Bluetooth to the paired device.

How To Tap Like a Pro

Start tapping the right way from the get go!

Following these tips will tremendously increases your tapping accuracy:

  1. Keep your fingers neutral and curved, raise your wrist and let it fall gently, allowing your fingers to make contact with the tapping surface.
  2. Don't splay your fingers.
  3. Don't bunch your fingers all together.
  4. Don't stick out the fingers that are not tapping, let them rest but avoid their contact with the tapping surface.
 

A Breakthrough In User Interaction

1

Tap your fingers on any surface

Tap your leg, arm, couch, desk, or any other surface that you can think of. This will let TapXR know you are sending a command.


2

TapXR senses that a tap has occurred

Using a combination of optical and mechanical sensors, the TapXR is able to register when you are tapping.


3

The Tap AI registers the tap as an HID command

After a tap occurs, the TapXR AI determines what is being tapped and sends the associated command to your bluetooth device.


4

The command is transmitted to the paired device via Bluetooth

All the tap magic happens in real time, with virtually no latency, so all you see is your commands as they happen.


Tapping your fingers is an intuitive, non fatiguing operation that you can easily perform on any surface, in any hand orientation and in every environment.

Unlike other input methods, Tapping can be used exactly the same way across all of your digital devices. 

Learn once, use everywhere!

The Tap Alphabet

Every finger combination represents a different input.

Unlike QWERTY keyboards, where the user is expected to memorize the keyboard layout (most people end up forever hunting and picking keys on the board!), Tapping trains your muscle memory that each finger combination transmits a different key, macro, or combinations of keys.

In order to support larger sets of commands we have made it so TapXR can distinguish between single taps, double taps enabling the ultimate flexibility.

Within roughly 10 hours of practice most people report that Tapping becomes second nature, like riding a bike!

TapXR is 100% Programmable

Four Modes Of Operation

Keyboard Mode

Access all the letters, numbers, and symbols you would find on a keyboard.

Access all the letters, numbers, and symbols you would find on a standard keyboard.
You can use tap to type into any Bluetooth enabled device including phones, laptops, tablets and AR/VR headsets. Rapid text entry is accomplished by tapping your fingers on any surface and at any angle.

AirMouse Mode

Magically move your hand and pinch your fingers to control the cursor on any screen.

Bring this magically new way of controlling content to any screen. 

With the AirMouse you can scroll through pages, select content, activate media & drag and drop files into folders.

Custom TapMap Mode

Customize over 150 unique commands, modifiers, macros, or even strings of text to assign taps to meet your needs.

Customize over 150 unique commands, modifiers, macros, or even strings of text to assign taps to meet your needs.
The TapXR is fully customizable to meet your needs for gaming, editing, design and more - making it a robust solution for any input needs. The possibilities are truly endless.

Raw SDK Mode

Developers can get access to raw tapping and IMU data to create new applications with TapXR.

Developers can get access to raw tapping and IMU data to create new applications with TapXR.
Using our opensource SDKs for iOS, Android, Unity or Windows, you can access Tap’s raw data to create your own apps or modes. Join our community of tappers who have already created dozens of new games and apps using our SDKs!