They need a "hover" sensor for touch, to at least replicate the mouse pointer's hover functionality for all the websites that use CSS hover code.
This is one of the more frustrating conversions to do between mouse/pointer vs. touch websites, since it affects operational usability and not just appearances.
I just want them to put a touchscreen in their computers.
I love how they need to research this when Wacom is already on multiple tablets for Android and Windows.
Is Apple too proud to license?
Why?
Didn't they implement some sort of pressure sensitivity in the Garage Band app for iPad? I thought there was something like the harder you hit a drum the loaded the sound would be. Or is that something completely different?
Both of you guys are incorrect. The company that developed pressure sensitive touch technology for PixelSense (Perceptive Pixel) and Kinect were both bought by Microsoft. PixelSense has seen very little change since the acquisition in 2007, other than spec bumps. As for Kinect, that underlying technology is the same since 2008. What they've done is improve the accuracy slightly.
This is like calling Google innovative because they bought a "smart" thermostat company.
ZOMG. Apple hasn't invented it yet, but Samsung and Microsoft are already copying it!!!
P.S. The thing is, the pressure sensitive tech has one major problem on portable devices: they are, well, portable and often are held in the hand. Even if highly effective/precise method of measuring the pressure would emerge, it would still be a gimmick, because human hands are not as precise. Same applies to the Samsung's finger-hover-over-the-screen thingy.
a web app that relies on hover for operational functionality rather than appearance cues is doing it wrong.
I don't know what you're talking about. I never implied buying smaller companies was wrong; it just doesn't make the acquiring company innovative.Yeah, tech companies do this all the time except Apple right?
Licenses it, doesn't give Samsung free roam to use it wherever they please.
Isn't pressure based going backwards? iPhone broke through in 2007 as the first capacitive touch on glass while everything else was that crappy pressure- based resistive screens ..
Samsung is a corporation. Maybe you mean one of their engineers?
They wouldn't have to "copy" Apple. They could easily "copy" Microsoft...
Didn't they implement some sort of pressure sensitivity in the Garage Band app for iPad? I thought there was something like the harder you hit a drum the loaded the sound would be. Or is that something completely different?
Both of you guys are incorrect. The company that developed pressure sensitive touch technology for PixelSense (Perceptive Pixel) and Kinect were both bought by Microsoft. PixelSense has seen very little change since the acquisition in 2007, other than spec bumps.
Microsoft is innovating, who knew. But still good stuff.
They're fantastic to use! Apple's party line is that you'll end up with "gorilla arm" syndrome or some BS like that, but I work with touchscreens at work, and the touchscreen isn't a primary input device. It's a secondary input device, and if you use it as a secondary input device, it's absolutely fantastic to use.
ZOMG. Apple hasn't invented it yet, but Samsung and Microsoft are already copying it!!!
P.S. The thing is, the pressure sensitive tech has one major problem on portable devices: they are, well, portable and often are held in the hand. Even if highly effective/precise method of measuring the pressure would emerge, it would still be a gimmick, because human hands are not as precise. Same applies to the Samsung's finger-hover-over-the-screen thingy.
You mean, Samsung and Microsoft has already been able to implement it and Apple hasn't. News flash, Apple is usually behind. For example, most of the features on iPhone have been around on Android for a long time now. The only thing Apple does right is, it comes out with beautiful hardware. On the software side, Apple is mediocre at best...