Company Microsoft invests a lot of money in research and development, and a recent project of his aims to make us let's forget about 3D Touch and the screens that offer tactile feedback, those from Redmond having something completely different prepared for us.
More precisely, the Microsoft company develops a technology called Pre-touch which allows a smartphone to detect the presence of a finger over a portion of the screen and to activate functions without the user actually touching the screen with the finger, the video below shows everything.
Practically, the simple movement of the finger over the screen of a smartphone is detected by the terminal and is equivalent to pressing the screen, the functionality being able to allow us to control the devices without actually touching them, something that few terminals offer now.
Microsoft's software can sense the finger near the screen and actuate certain functions of an application, such as displaying a control menu before the finger reaches the screen, and it is complemented by other technologies that improve the user experience of the iDevice- uri.
More precisely, a smartphone could detect if it is used with one hand and could display a completely different control interface than the one displayed in the case of the young person with both hands, everything being done automatically by the terminal's operating system.
New research uses a mobile phone's ability to sense how you are gripping the device, as well as when and where the fingers are approaching it, to adapt interfaces on the fly. The research is outlined in the paper, "Pre-Touch Sensing for Mobile Interaction."
Those at Microsoft call this system Pre-touch because he is able to feel the movements above the screen of a smartphone before being touched, and he could easily make 3D Touch, or other similar systems, forgotten if it will be implemented correctly in smartphones.
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