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This is an easy enable with "Automatic Detection". Are there any other phone "Accessibility" options that are useful to everyone?
Somehow managed to fool it the other day by shutting a car trunk, helping someone load up, with me on the outside. It activated the dots for the rest of my walk afterwards, when I was using the phone.
I get the impression there are much more sophisticated signals and classification methods to determine whether someone is in a vehicle or not, beyond the accelerometers.
I'm curious how this feature chooses to turn itself on with automatic detection. Somehow managed to fool it the other day by shutting a car trunk, helping someone load up, with me on the outside. It activated the dots for the rest of my walk afterwards, when I was using the phone. I get the impression there are much more sophisticated signals and classification methods to determine whether someone is in a vehicle or…
I'm curious how this feature chooses to turn itself on with automatic detection. Somehow managed to fool it the other day by shutting a car trunk, helping someone load up, with me on the outside. It activated the dots for the rest of my walk afterwards, when I was using the phone. I get the impression there are much more sophisticated signals and classification methods to determine whether someone is in a vehicle or…
I always assumed this is triggered by Bluetooth connection to the car?
I'm curious how this feature chooses to turn itself on with automatic detection. Somehow managed to fool it the other day by shutting a car trunk, helping someone load up, with me on the outside. It activated the dots for the rest of my walk afterwards, when I was using the phone. I get the impression there are much more sophisticated signals and classification methods to determine whether someone is in a vehicle or…
I always assumed this is triggered by Bluetooth connection to the car?
I have no idea how something like this is ideated, then prototyped, then validated, but it does work wonders for me, and I am so grateful it exists.
1. Be a developer and you (or a spouse/child/friend) get motion sickness when looking at the phone while travelling.
2. We’ve known the mechanisms of motion sickness (looking at something static while your inner ear indicates you’re moving) from before smartphones were a thing.
3. We already have a ton of information on the phone to know when we’re in a vehicle, how fast we’re moving, direction, so on.
4. Try adding something to the static screen so it moves in tandem with you and thus reduce the cause of motion sickness.
5. Get the people who get sick to try it out.
If anything, I’m surprised it took a decade and a half to come up with it.
And yet, apparently it was.
It's not perfect, but the dots help me to go from instantly feeling sick to lasting 30-40 minutes before I have to stop looking at the screen.