Nintendo DS to Offer Handwriting Recognition

Posted by iamlegend

November 3, 2005

Zi Corporation has announced a licensing agreement with Nintendo that will allow developers to make use of handwriting recognition in future titles. With the input on a DS this only makes sense that handwriting recognition would make it’s way into DS games and apps. As the article states from Pro-G “Thinking about how this technology may be used in games is a difficult one. Perhaps SEGA might be able to make Writing of the Dead and utilise handwriting in a similar way to how they used typing in Typing of the Dead. Handwriting recognition could also be used in RPGs, where you must remember passwords and messages and rather than selecting them using on screen menus, you will have to write them on the screen.”

Interesting stuff…..