Exploding live tiles picture!!

[anon(5969054)]

https://twitter.com/tomwarren/status/486531610947641345

 

[Silviu Bogusevschi]

Half Life 3 confirmed

 

[anon(7900571)]

Nothing explosive , is Tom trying to show the 3D touch interface for live tiles or interactive love tiles ? And picture he twitted isn't clear :/

 

[anon(5969054)]

Nothing explosive , is Tom trying to show the 3D touch interface for live tiles or interactive love tiles ? And picture he twitted isn't clear :/

they are probably called expoding tiles by microsoft...when you hover them extra stuff pops up around the tile...i guess

 

[Silviu Bogusevschi]

Nothing explosive , is Tom trying to show the 3D touch interface for live tiles or interactive love tiles ? And picture he twitted isn't clear :/

I very very doubt Tom will provide right now a clear image Just a teaser.

 

[anon(5969054)]

I very very doubt Tom will provide right now a clear image Just a teaser.

He made it not clear on purpose lol.

 

[xandros9]

Windows Phone 8.1 Update C4

 

[Draganta]

What is explosive about that pic? I only see a huge Facebook tile, and some stuff around it

 

[xandros9]

What is explosive about that pic? I only see a huge Facebook tile, and some stuff around it

I'm assuming the tile is "exploding" in that it explodes into various buttons around it

 

[Abhishek P]

Imagine this:
U hover ur finger on top of the music tile, and u get playback controls.
That is exploding tiles

 

[Jorge Holguin]

This has to be shown in a video, so we can get excited ����. A picture can be misleading.

 

[Dratwister]

anyone else see that the 3 touch buttons below the screen is ultra close to each other?

 

[Chregu]

Imagine this:
U hover ur finger on top of the music tile, and u get playback controls.
That is exploding tiles

I still don't understand why I have to hover my finger on top of the tile and they don't just implement "long press" for the same effect just more comfortable.

This really screams "gimmick" to me.

 

[anon(5969054)]

I still don't understand why I have to hover my finger on top of the tile and they don't just implement "long press" for the same effect just more comfortable.

This really screams "gimmick" to me.

Sorry but I generally hate long presses. Long presses feel slow. Also they would need to reinvent the dragging of tiles then.
Plus, you might be able to do some z-axis movement with you fingers to do even more interaction.

 

[wpgeek820]

anyone else see that the 3 touch buttons below the screen is ultra close to each other?

I noticed that, but it looks very similar to a 1520. Because in the 1520, the buttons look close to each other because of the bigger screen size. But then, they don't look like capacitive buttons at all. Could be a 1520 with on-screen buttons i.e a 1525.

 

[Chregu]

Sorry but I generally hate long presses. Long presses feel slow. Also they would need to reinvent the dragging of tiles then.
Plus, you might be able to do some z-axis movement with you fingers to do even more interaction.

The tile will need to know that it's the one you want to have exploded. So instead of long press you'll have long hover. There needs to be a difference between moving above the screen and interacting with it.

Don't get me wrong, it might be awesome. At this point with the available rumors and the sobering 3D movement attempts of Amazon and Samsung I just don't see it.

 

[anon(5969054)]

The tile will need to know that it's the one you want to have exploded. So instead of long press you'll have long hover. There needs to be a difference between moving above the screen and interacting with it.

Don't get me wrong, it might be awesome. At this point with the available rumors and the sobering 3D movement attempts of Amazon and Samsung I just don't see it.

Yes a long hover would kinda suck too. Because mostly my thumb hovers around the middle of the screen when I hold the phone and it would activate stuff all the time. I hope they find another solution.

 

[TechFreak1]

Well from the top of my head I can think of several potential problems after seeing Samsung's and Amazon's implementation but that is just me over analyzing lol. Curious to see how they have implemented 3D touch and how that compares.

 

[mparker]

The tile will need to know that it's the one you want to have exploded. So instead of long press you'll have long hover. There needs to be a difference between moving above the screen and interacting with it.

It doesn't necessarily need a long hover - mid-air gestures are also a possibility. In particular, moving your finger towards a tile then swerving to its edge could be a sufficient gesture to activate this. This would make it seamless and quick to both explode the tile and activate the particular icon.

 

[Chregu]

It doesn't necessarily need a long hover - mid-air gestures are also a possibility. In particular, moving your finger towards a tile then swerving to its edge could be a sufficient gesture to activate this. This would make it seamless and quick to both explode the tile and activate the particular icon.

Okay, that's true. Sounds not too bad.

I wonder how useful this really might be, but I guess we'll find out