Instead of a phone, you can think of any other device that is able to sense the off-screen input. Simply hang it around your body and send the tracking results to the application phone.
By tracking the application phone and the users hands, it is possible to use the users spatial memory to interact with applications.
Let's think of a tourist from the US that does a trip to Europe. You are in Spain, for example. Even you might not have much insights about Europe, you will still know that Germany is somehow north-east from Spain.
How do you plan your trip from Spain to Germany? Open a maps application; Your application phone is (0,0) in the coordinate system. You could pinch in off-screen space where you are right now + pinch where you want to go.
so what do you call this concept?
DaKaaTube 2 years ago
Instead of a phone, you can think of any other device that is able to sense the off-screen input. Simply hang it around your body and send the tracking results to the application phone.
By tracking the application phone and the users hands, it is possible to use the users spatial memory to interact with applications.
visScience 2 years ago
Talking about the maps application:
Let's think of a tourist from the US that does a trip to Europe. You are in Spain, for example. Even you might not have much insights about Europe, you will still know that Germany is somehow north-east from Spain.
How do you plan your trip from Spain to Germany? Open a maps application; Your application phone is (0,0) in the coordinate system. You could pinch in off-screen space where you are right now + pinch where you want to go.
visScience 2 years ago
apple has a patent on that ^^
sigma0815 2 years ago 3