“It’s called FingerAngle, and it can detect not only the angle of your finger, it can also detect rotations. This can be more powerful than 3D Touch in that more gestures can be created by the movement of just one finger, whereas 3D Touch is limited to how soft or hard the user is pressing.”
“What’s most impressive about this touchscreen that knows the exact angle of the finger touching it is that it’s the same display hardware found in every smartphone on the market right now.”
“Qeexo is a company that seems obsessed with making our interaction with our devices more intuitive and intelligent. In this demonstration, they present technology that allows an Android device’s screen to determine the yaw and pitch of the finger touching it in three dimensions. Actual 3D touch. It’s pretty incredible stuff.”
“By measuring a finger’s angle relative to the screen’s surface, the phone is able to register the x- and y-rotation of a touch. This opens a whole new dimension for touchscreens, and creates a richer vocabulary of interactions we can use on our ever-shrinking screens.”
“Qeexo allows different results from each interaction…How awesome is that? And to think that there’s no special hardware required to tell the difference between 3 different parts of your finger and 2 different areas of a pen!”
“The touch-based user interface is still modeled after the same tapping, swiping, pinching and rotating gestures we have all grown accustomed to. Don’t you feel this is limiting? Could we do more with our smartphone screens than just type and swipe to interact with on-screen elements?”
