Mobile Insights - Feeling the Force (Force Touch) with iOS 9
My friend and Cognizant's mobile and digital technical guru, Peter Rogers, has been playing again. In this "must read" article he shares how iOS9 handles touch and sensing. Enjoy! ********** Every time there is a new games console release (especially when Nintendo is involved) rumours are always floating abound of a technological support for textures that you can actually feel on your touch screen. Basically the ability to sense different materials through the screen. It is a lovely idea and the closest we have come yet is probably haptics ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haptic_technology ) and electric shock feedback ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRQAijNKSEs ). Well, we are not there quite yet but Apple certainly came close with the iPhone 6S announcement of 3D Touch ( http://www.apple.com/iphone-6s/3d-touch/ ). After revolutionising the touch screen world with multi-touch, it then made perfect sense to add a force element to the touches in order to offer dif