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Flagship Apple Stores Outfitted With Interactive Tables to Highlight 3D Touch
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Maybe I'm missing something here but how does this show off 3D Touch?
I love all the comments about Microsoft's Surface, because that's what it inherently looks like!
How exciting, basically a layered context menu on a screen based on input.... bit light right click mouse button on a screen. How inventive and gimmicky. I've tried it on the display models and its garbage and would never use it. Im not that lazy to open an App.
thats cool.
its kinda annoying trying to explain 3D Touch to people. i usually just get a
* or "okaaaaay? ... point?" "why not just open the app?" response. sorta like when people back in the day wouldnt understand why i would want to use my fingers instead of a stylus on my iPhone 2G
its kinda annoying trying to explain 3D Touch to people. i usually just get a
* or "okaaaaay? ... point?" "why not just open the app?" response. sorta like when people back in the day wouldnt understand why i would want to use my fingers instead of a stylus on my iPhone 2G 
How long 'till Samsung has one, but with a wrap-around edge.
Introducing Samsung Smart Table.
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Flagship Apple Stores in San Francisco and New York have been outfitted with new "Force Touch" tables, which are designed to show off the new 3D Touch feature on the iPhone 6s and 6s Plus. In these retail locations, there's a special table that houses iPhone 6s models.
When a 3D Touch force press gesture is used on the screen of one of the iPhones, which all display a fish, the table reacts to the pressure with a neat rippling water visual. The touch-enabled table can be seen in the video below from Grate App. (via 9to5Mac).
These tables are only in San Francisco and New York at the current time, but it's possible Apple could install them in additional stores around the world as part of an iPhone 6s promotional effort. The fish theme of the table and iPhone duo is also used on the iPhone 6s and 6s Plus boxes and in their live wallpapers.
Apple calls 3D Touch, the flagship feature of the iPhone 6s and 6s Plus, the "next generation" of Multi-Touch. 3D Touch enables new pressure based gestures, allowing users to "Peek" at content link links in Messages or Mail with a light press and "Pop" into that content with a longer press. 3D Touch also includes Quick Actions for accessing app content directly from a press on an app icon on the Home screen.
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Apple has way too much money
This.
Fair play to Microsoft they were way ahead of the game with the Surface Table, i still long to have one of these as my desk (but perhaps with a rising edge to mimic a monitor for more comfort).
Oh look, the fun police are here
The tables aren't touch reactive, they're just screens
lol thanks!! You just made me feel much better because I decided a week before launch to keep my 6plus
Looking at the video, it's not actually force touch, people are just touching the screen without activating force touch to get the ripple effect.
Nice gimmick, and very nice setup, but would have been good to actually experience force touch .
Nice gimmick, and very nice setup, but would have been good to actually experience force touch .
It's rather useless atm and in fact ruins my experience because they left long press in, half the time it's getting what I want to do wrong. They should have taken long press out and put a delete app option in the pressure sensitive menu.
IOS is training me not to use it since nothing works with it, I just get fed up and I don't bother any more. It would have been better inf act to put delete app inside that menu as at least then I'd keep using it and then gradually see more options appear as they get patched in.
IOS is training me not to use it since nothing works with it, I just get fed up and I don't bother any more. It would have been better inf act to put delete app inside that menu as at least then I'd keep using it and then gradually see more options appear as they get patched in.
How about more support for it? I've had the phone for a week and already forgot I've had it. Even something simple as 3D touching the display while the phone is off to see notifications would solve the "touchID" is too fast issue and reduce the wear on the buttons.
In Android land it's called touch to wake. Maybe we can get a jailbreak tweak to do the same.
In Android land it's called touch to wake. Maybe we can get a jailbreak tweak to do the same.
Yeah looks like they do a decent job as store displays.
Yeah I'm sure it was set up to amuse the cynical killjoys at MacRumors.
I watched the demo of the jailbreak version of this feature, and it seems that it was an upward swipe that triggered 3D Touch, not a long or harder press. I was confused by that.