https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgNXsJeN7ek
Apple ’s neat 3D tactile sensation trick rely on a touchscreen that has integrated pressure sensing element to determine between a ‘ peek ’ and a ‘ pop ’ . But give a slick Android hacker a waterproofed sound and a barometer , and you could get a similar sorting of consequence .
https://gizmodo.com/iphone-6s-review-a-3d-touch-playground-but-not-much-e-1734182375
In aproof - of - construct television posted to YouTube , developer Marco Chiappetta shows how the barometer in the Sony Xperia Z3 Compact can be hacked to produce some variety of air pressure sensitiveness . Because the Z3 Compact has seals over the ports to make it waterproof , it ’s kinda airtight . So , when you push on the screen , there ’s an gain in the intragroup atmosphere imperativeness of the phone , mensurable with the barometer .
It ’s not a perfect or particularly precise reading , but the telecasting demonstrates how it ’s full enough to zoom in and out on an prototype , or drag it around . More to the stop , it ’s a fun monitor of everything that can be done with the the great unwashed of sensors in phones , give enough creativity . And hey , maybe iPhone owners wo n’t get to hog all the Force Touch fun after all .
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