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The motion tracking / hand gestures / radar thing seems cool, but it also screams "3D Touch" to me. It'll be really interesting to see if apps successfully leve
by akersten 7y ago
The motion tracking / hand gestures / radar thing seems cool, but it also screams "3D Touch" to me. It'll be really interesting to see if apps successfully leverage it, or if it will fade away and disappear by the time Pixel 5 comes around.
- inlined 7y agoI wonder if the OS could do some of the heavy lifting automatically, such as translating a swipe in the air to a swipe across the screen.
- chrisjc 7y agoPerhaps they're just using the Pixel 4's Soli as a test-bed for their future headset?
- albeec13 7y agoFrankly I'm shocked at how anemic the radar chip demonstration and marketing materials are compared to what they demoed about the chip a few years ago. Google had video showing how they could differentiate individual finger motion and motions like rolling 2 fingers together to adjust volume up and down. What they're shipping with Pixel 4 seems to have exactly one gesture: swiping a few inches above the screen to skip songs back and forth or silence alarms and calls. You know what else had this feature? The 2013 Moto X. And it didn't use a radar sensor, just a group of 4 light sensors, one at each corner of the face of the phone. Granted, if what they demoed a while back is accurate, the radar chip is much more capable than a few light sensors, but what they're shipping and marketing is not that. Either they were not able to make the proof of concept work in a shipping device, or the final product is not as capable as it seemed.