By Kevin Lee
Razer’s new Optomechanical switch is possibly the most revolutionary thing we’ve seen in a desktop keyboard for years. The hybridized key switches gains the speed of a laser-based optical system while still maintaining the clicky, tactile feel of a mechanical key.
While we were blown away by the technology in our recent review of the Huntsman Elite, we wanted the full backstory of the how the Optomechanical switch came to be. We caught up with Razer’s Hilmar Hahn, Associate Director of Core Peripheral Product Marketing, and VJin Cheng, Associate Manager of Product Marketing, to tell us everything about the Huntsman Elite and its revolutionary key switches.
Hahn, surprisingly, reveals that the Optomechanical switch has been subject to one of the longest product development cycles at Razer.
“We have actually had this [Optomechanical switch] on the roadmap for at least three years now, and having it on the roadmap usually means that we want to launch it within that year,” Hahn says. “Razer only launches product when we feel it’s actually ready, so we pushed this back multiple times just to make sure that we get it right – And this maybe has been four years in the making in total.”
Hahn explains that …read more
Source:: techradar.com – Computing Components
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