Exploring Apple's 3D Touch
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Exploring Apple's 3D Touch
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#2I really would like to see google maps to make use of 3d touch to make zooming easier. Moving the finger up/down while pressing would zoom in/out. That would make one-finger usage of the maps so easy.
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#3and to think there was an api to derive pressure from contact size back in 2.0
https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/UIKit/...
anyone knows any app usage of this? I remember some games had pressure calculated from the accelerometer, don't know if any did use this one instead.
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#4I really would like to see google maps to make use of 3d touch to make zooming easier. Moving the finger up/down while pressing would zoom in/out. That would make one-finger usage of the maps so easy.
On my Android phone, at least, this can already be achieved with a double-tap of sorts.
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#5I really would like to see google maps to make use of 3d touch to make zooming easier. Moving the finger up/down while pressing would zoom in/out. That would make one-finger usage of the maps so easy.
On my Android phone, at least, this can already be achieved with a double-tap of sorts.
Yes, here too. But pressing might be more intuitive then double tapping.
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#6and to think there was an api to derive pressure from contact size back in 2.0 https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/UIKit/... anyone knows any app usage of this? I remember some games had pressure calculated from the accelerometer, don't know if any did use this one instead.
GarageBand also uses accelerometer data to try get the velocity of taps on drums it works reasonably well, not like 3D Touch of course.
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#7@freino made a web-based 3D-touch demo that prints the value in question, however the javascript DOM attribute has values between 0 and 1, not 0 and 6.666667.
Check it out with an iPhone 6s/6s+ at http://freinbichler.me/apps/3dtouch/
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#8I really would like to see google maps to make use of 3d touch to make zooming easier. Moving the finger up/down while pressing would zoom in/out. That would make one-finger usage of the maps so easy.
You may already know this but you can double-click, hold and slide up/down on google maps to zoom in and out.
I have the 3D thing on my macbook trackpad (force touch) and I have it turned off. Unfortunately the click on the trackpad is triggered by the same mechanism, which means detection of the click is effectively handled by software.
The net result is that, unless you make distinct actions when moving between a zoom and a click, the OS can't tell when the scroll ends and the click begins. I work in CAD software where it's really common to zoom out and roll straight into the click and drag (pan) but it's an absolute nightmare on this trackpad.
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#9I really would like to see google maps to make use of 3d touch to make zooming easier. Moving the finger up/down while pressing would zoom in/out. That would make one-finger usage of the maps so easy.
You may already know this but you can double-click, hold and slide up/down on google maps to zoom in and out. I have the 3D thing on my macbook trackpad (force touch) and I have it turned off. Unfortunately the click on the trackpad is triggered by the same mechanism, which means detection of the click is effectively handled by software. The net result is that, unless you make distinct actions when moving between a z…
The laptop I have right now has a similar pressure sensitive Synaptics ForcePad, and I've never used a more annoying trackpad before. Just simply moving the cursor on the trackpad can be ridiculously error prone, with random clicks triggering whenever you let your guard down and push a little too hard.
The worst part is, I can't even use it as a regular trackpad with tap-to-click only, because the pressure sensitive clicks can't even be completely disabled.
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#10I'm wondering: can it measure force also for different presses simultaneously? And how far apart do the presses need to be?