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I really think they need to focus on removing that awful latency. You can even see it in the video. Microsoft did a study showing just how important it is to ge
by ben174 11y ago
I really think they need to focus on removing that awful latency. You can even see it in the video. Microsoft did a study showing just how important it is to get that number down below 10ms.
http://phys.org/news/2012-03-microsoft-finger-1ms-touchscreen-video.html http://phys.org/news/2012-03-microsoft-finger-1ms-touchscree...
- white-flame 11y agoNot only that, but they have to very carefully keep the rest of their hand from touching the drawing surface as they hold the stylus. An active stylus is far better, letting you rest or brush your palm against the screen without interfering with anything. If they're going to market this as taking care of all the fiddly bits and letting you just be creative, then they should really take care of all the fiddly bits.
- wmorein 11y agoThe Pencil stylus is actually active and our palm rejection works quite well.
- bronson 11y agoThe Pencil is more like a fat crayon, its latency is absurd, and its palm rejection only sometimes works. After having bought the Pencil and the Pogo, and hating both, I can say that technical drawing on the iPad is simply a poor experience. (Wacom is an example of how to do it well.) For sketching charcoal/crayon-style they're probably fine, but that's not what's being shown in the video. Edit: and calling either of these styluses "pressure sensitive" is to diminish the term to nothingness. Wacom is pressure sensitive, these are barely pressure aware. Erratic pressure response, just not very useful.
- netfire 11y agoI agree that reducing the latency would be awesome, but is this something the app developer has any control over, or is this just a restriction imposed by the device hardware (or operating system). In the example video you posted, it appears that Microsoft is using completely different (and likely very expensive) hardware.