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3D Touch - what does it mean?
by nodivbyzero 11y ago
3D Touch - what does it mean?
- bpicolo 11y agoHardware-accelerated click-and-hold.
- ihuman 11y agoIt is force touch, basically.
- pilif 11y agoCraig even used the term by accident
- snegu 11y agoSeems to me it allows something like hover states on mobile.
- inversionOf 11y agoTheoretically it means that the screen senses pressure in addition to location(s) (note that all capacitive screens do this already, where pressure is proxied by size of touch, which is useful with big meaty fingers but is arguably less precise. Android publishes this, since version 1.0, as "force"). The demos are a little odd, though, as all seem to be primarily about the difference between taps and long presses, being entirely defined by touch time rather than pressure.
- chx 11y agoIs http://developer.android.com/reference/android/view/MotionEvent.html#getPressure(int) http://developer.android.com/reference/android/view/MotionEv... this what you mean?
- inversionOf 11y agoYup you're correct: named pressure rather than force (the specific function you linked was not in 1, but pressure was in the legacy methods since version 1. Search the page for pressure). It is live on most devices, and reflects pressure quite accurately, and is doing it by measuring the touch area per contact on the screen, which with a human finger varies based upon the force of the press. Presumably on the Huawei they would just use the actual pressure sensor instead of the proxied size.
- xarjklo 11y agoFancy context menus.
- kosmic_k 11y agoUsing capacitive touch sensors the iPhone6s measures the tiny flexing of the front screen as you touch it. Pretty clever actually.
- bzudo 11y agoNo more home button in iPhone 7?
- masklinn 11y agoTactile feedback and touch force recognition, so Force Touch for iphones.
- carlosrg 11y agoRight click for touchscreens.
- jalcide 11y agoI'd love to see the lightest, regular swipe and tap act as a mouse on-rollover hover state and the slightly harder swipe scroll the page. The harder press would be the on-press and on-release states. I miss all of those interaction states, with multi-touch. Not only will Apple not do that, but we won't even have the options to do so. It'll be all about new, gimmicky peek and poke style gestures. I'm sure they'll be nice, though.