“The next user interface requires your body. You will literally feel signals chock-full of timely, contextual data delivered from all manner of touchscreens, gadgets and wearables,” Brian S. Hall reports for Macworld. “It’s called haptics, and while it’s been around for years, most notably in game controllers, the Apple Watch is set to deliver this technology to the masses.”
“Done right, haptics can mimic the feeling of a pin prick by a wearable that tracks your blood sugar, simulate the plucking of virtual guitar strings on a tablet screen, or re-create the physical recoil of a phaser from your favorite game controller,” Hall reports. “To date, the technology has been held back by a lack of real-time accuracy.”
“Apple, however, has found a way to make haptics work now, leveraging what this tech can do in its present stage and clearing a path for making haptics a part of our everyday life,” Hall reports. “Apple created what it calls a “’tactic engine’ to deliver physical sensations to your wrist.”
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Where is the kind where you can feel items on the screen, like sandpaper, etc. Thats what I would like to see!
Was demonstrated a few years back as the new big thing and was even rumoured that. apple was about to use it. As yet nothing has materialised of the type promised back then.
“taptic engine”, not “tactic engine”
A new way of flirting across a room at a party and run the risk of getting assaulted if done stupidly.
Teenagers will love this.
Romance authors and illustrators will love this if delivered via iOS. ‘Don’t judge the book by it’s [flat and colorless] icon “