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Exploring Apple's 3D Touch

by _rknLA on 10/12/15, 9:03 AM with 30 comments

  • by Tepix on 10/12/15, 11:24 AM

    @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/

  • by rajadigopula on 10/12/15, 3:48 PM

    Wondering how the 3d touch changes the cross platform development!?

    What happens when a developer has 2 different actions for a long press and pressured (3d touch) press!?

    I have trouble understanding the usability pov for the 3d touch! Do we really need it?

  • by LoSboccacc on 10/12/15, 10:59 AM

    and 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.

  • by amelius on 10/12/15, 1:55 PM

    I'm wondering: can it measure force also for different presses simultaneously? And how far apart do the presses need to be?

  • by 3dfan on 10/12/15, 10:57 AM

    I 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.

  • by pazimzadeh on 10/12/15, 4:42 PM

    I'd like to know how precisely the force sensors are calibrated during the manufacturing process, i.e. what is the variation in maximum detected pressure across iPhones?

  • by melling on 10/12/15, 2:05 PM

    For more on 3dTouch, I've catalogued a dozen other articles here:

    http://www.h4labs.com/dev/ios/swift.html?age=10000&q=3dTouch

    By the way, over the weekend I added a Swift Weekly view, which should be a nice way to keep up on new Swift blogs:

    http://www.h4labs.com/dev/ios/swift.html?week=0

  • by OldSchoolJohnny on 10/12/15, 5:19 PM

    How does pressure sensitive touch essentially differ from a long touch?