The Air Keyboard Conquerer comes with an App to set all the key mappings. The AVKapp also allows for three profiles so you can keep three configurations handy. You can also export each of the configurations and then load them up at any time so it gives you a limitless amount of customization. The best use of the keymapping on the PC was to move WASD to the left stick and program the other buttons I needed to the other eight buttons and the D-pad.
There were a few glitches in setup as the system didn’t see it quite right the first time. Some games, like Trine 2, will see it as a controller in the settings. However, the Cideko Air Keyboard Conqueror seemed to only be recognized by Windows 7 with the D-Pad being the left stick and vice versa. So I went into the Devices and Printers and did a calibration. Everything worked fine there, the X/Y axis were fine, the Z axis was fine. So I went back into the games to test them out again and finally, it all worked. It might have just been a glitch in the setup here as we received another demo unit prior to this one and it had some problems (it was an earlier test model).
Admittedly, doing all the button mapping is cumbersome but hey, that’s what we do to get our game on, right? The great thing is that, once it was all set up and ready to roll, we could (here in the office) game on the PC with the projector and sit on the recliner while doing it instead of on the standard display at the desk. How’s that for some laid back dual-stick gaming action? Sure, it’s no different than a console, but we could also surf the web, send emails, watch Hulu, etc without having to switch the input or controller. The keyboard buttons are slightly smaller than on my smartphone (with a slide out QWERTY keyboard) but have more space in between them so while holding the unit I could touch my thumbs together which meant that typing wasn’t a problem at all. In fact I wrote this review with the keyboard on the Cideko Air Keyboard Conqueror and it was only slightly slower than my standard typing speed. For the PS3 it is a perfect combo unit that work just like a Dualshock controller with a snap on keyboard.
The even nicer thing was that, when I was done gaming, I could close the game app and open the media player and boom, I’ve got some good old fashioned entertainment. Since the mouse has a gyroscope it means I could easily do everything from clear across the room. I was even able to do my social networking and some chatting with the keyboard. 
Using the gyroscopic mouse is a breeze as you can basically line up the front of the unit with the display (projection, TV, etc) so that it’s completely intuitive where to move it. At that point it’s no different than any other motion-based controller.
Overall, the Cideko Air Keyboard Conqueror is a great little add-on to the digital living room. IT works with many games and can be configured to work with those that don’t see it as a controller or aren’t controller-friendly. OnLive gave a warning that it might not be supported and it wasn’t. However, when I mapped the WASD keys to the thumbsticks or D-pad and set the Conqueror to have the right stick be the mouse, it worked just fine and only required some minor tweaking. That meant I could then play pretty much any game with it, even something as simple as Angry Birds in Google Chrome all the way up to Borderlands through OnLive.
Cideko Air Keyboard Conqueror
available at Amazon.com
