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I'm taking the opposite stance, this is a stupid gimmick until proven otherwise. Scrolling with my finger can happen on the very edge of the screen or area of i

I'm taking the opposite stance, this is a stupid gimmick until proven otherwise. Scrolling with my finger can happen on the very edge of the screen or area of interaction and it's easy to move out of viewing obstruction. Tilt-based interaction has existed for years on iOS and Android using the accelerometers. It's not a responsiveness or tracking issue, it's that interacting with screens at oblique angles is annoying and many times tilt/rotation interactions require pretty large arm movements compared to finger movements, limiting when and where they're useful. Maybe Amazon made it so amazing these can be overlooked or they were solved, but I'm not buying into the idea just because it uses cool computer vision technology.

drcode 12y ago
> this is a stupid gimmick until proven otherwise I actually agree with you, I'm just saying "Hold on guys, a rational argument can at least be made that this isn't just a stupid gimmick" ...but we have to try the device to know for sure...
- Chronic28 12y ago
  Or we can stay with the devices we have now.
Zelphyr 12y ago
> this is a stupid gimmick until proven otherwise Thus my objections to Fire Phone. It seems like a lot of gimmicks and little actual solving of real problems.
squeaky-clean 12y ago
> it's that interacting with screens at oblique angles is annoying When I saw the tilt features, I was very confused. Tilt the phone's screen away from you in order to read Yelp reviews? What? So in order to get more details, I need to make the device harder to read. Maybe it is a good feature, but the examples just make it seem like a gimmick that will get in the way.
- vlunkr 12y ago
  Yeah those example really don't sound appealing. Basically instead of hiding additional options in a slide-out menu you can now tuck them to the side of your app and make users tilt their head or hand to find them.

drcode 12y ago

> this is a stupid gimmick until proven otherwise I actually agree with you, I'm just saying "Hold on guys, a rational argument can at least be made that this isn't just a stupid gimmick" ...but we have to try the device to know for sure...

Chronic28 12y ago
Or we can stay with the devices we have now.

Zelphyr 12y ago

> this is a stupid gimmick until proven otherwise Thus my objections to Fire Phone. It seems like a lot of gimmicks and little actual solving of real problems.

squeaky-clean 12y ago

> it's that interacting with screens at oblique angles is annoying When I saw the tilt features, I was very confused. Tilt the phone's screen away from you in order to read Yelp reviews? What? So in order to get more details, I need to make the device harder to read. Maybe it is a good feature, but the examples just make it seem like a gimmick that will get in the way.

vlunkr 12y ago
Yeah those example really don't sound appealing. Basically instead of hiding additional options in a slide-out menu you can now tuck them to the side of your app and make users tilt their head or hand to find them.