Pressure-Sensitive Screens As Fast As Possible
Techquickie
·Techquickie
·2016-05-06
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1,008 words · ~5 min read
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now I'm sure you've heard the terms Force touch or 3D touch floating around
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the internet lately but aside from their apparent affiliation with the most
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controversially loved or hated fruit in the tech world what do these terms
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really mean is 3D touch just a cool hologram that projects from your phone
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is force touch a way to channel your inner Jedi when you're using your phone
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sadly no these terms refer to capacitive
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touch screens that are capable of reading how hard you press on them and
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while that might not sound like a big deal it could change a lot about the way
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we interact with our touchscreen devices in the future so how do they work then
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well there are so many different manufacturers starting to patent their
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own designs that there isn't really a industry standard method yet but in the
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case of Apple devices there is a grid of special capacitive sensors and strain
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gauges placed behind the screen's backlight that measure microscopic
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changes in distance between the cover glass and the backlight itself so when
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you press harder on the screen the distance between the glass and backlight
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is shorter resulting in force input 3D
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touch is even capable of reading multiple levels of pressure allowing for
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more interface options like the ones that we see in the iPhone 6s Force touch
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however is only capable of detecting a single level of pressure and is better
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suited for devices like the Apple watch which can benefit from additional
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interface options but might not have the room for the extra hardware and screen
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thickness necessary for 3D touch so the
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concept itself then seems pretty straightforward you press on the screen
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and the device recognizes where and how hard but what puts this feature into
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practice is the software designed around it most of the current uses for 3D touch
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revolve around shortcuts and convenience for example you could press on the
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Twitter app harder to be able to immediately start typing up your Tweet
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without having to navigate through the app itself or you could press on a
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preview of a picture or attachment and it would show it to you without fully
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opening it or leaving your current application this is essentially like
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having right click and middle click and more different ways of clicking even on
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devices that would normally have such small screens that they wouldn't have
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enough navigation buttons to be able to put in all of that functionality now at
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the moment this technology is not available on that many devices but what
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does the future hold for those of us who aren't a fan of the
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will pressure sensitive screens become the new standard in the near future at
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this point it's impossible to be 100% sure this new tech has opened many
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possibilities for the way we interact with our devices but one could argue
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that these changes add another level of complexity and more room for accidental
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input especially in bumpy situations where you might not have the best
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Precision behind your press that being said though 3D and force touch are
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opening many doors for thir third party app developers to expand existing apps
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or develop new ones and for our Android Brothers synaptics promises to bring
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what they call clear force their own take on pressure sensitive screens to
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several unnamed Android Flagship phones in early 2016 it's unclear at this time
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what clear force will enable in terms of functionality but I'm hoping for new
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ways of interacting with mobile games and ways to type in all caps when you're
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super mad which I guess brings us to the part of the video where normally I would
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with a Cheesy pun but for this one I realized that I just have to push too
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