https://www.techpowerup.com/256618/wooting-explores-hall-effect-and-inductive-sensing-for-analog-keyboards Readers of our website may be familiar with the Wooting brand for their then, and now, excellent Wooting One analog keyboard that we examined in late 2017. It impressed us enough to be the top keyboard for the year as well, and still remains one of the few keyboards to offer analog control at all, let alone on every single switch it is on. The company has since come out with a full-size Wooting Two, along with another switch option using a heavier spring. Their switches to date are linear optical switches manufactured by Flaretech to Wooting's design, and the company admitted there was not much more they could do with the current design. This brought us to Computex 2019, wherein they demonstrated their next generation switches for analog control, gave us some samples to take apart, and also showed off a neat prototype technology for the future- if it pans out, anyway.
Wooting also were happy to share the spotlight with a Dutch startup, Alltrons B.V., that aims to use inductive sensing as an alternative means to analog control on keyboards. The technology is still in its infancy, and you can read more here if interested. But it is interesting to note that we have gone from pressure sensing to analog control to the Hall effect, and possibly other technologies, all in the quest to make a keyboard truly worthy of the gaming moniker.
Personally I don't know if any other companies will employ this as interest seems to be very low.
