August 6, 2010 |
Video: Multitouch On Resistive Touchscreen
In the video above you’re looking at two points being read (multitouch) on a resistive touchscreen. When two fingers are placed on a single touchscreen, the digitizer will tend to read a point in between the two. What was done here is that a program was created that calculates the relative positioin of both fingers in order to allow for that pinch/zoom effect that you’ve just witnessed. It’s not real multitouch in the sense that we know it, but is cool nonetheless. Will we be seeing this kind of technology in Chinese MID releases? If its practicality only extends to picture zooming, perhaps not.
via slatedroid
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Comments (1)
That’s clever software.
However, there are already several examples of resistive multitouch overlays, much in the same way that there are also several examples of capacitive single touch overlays. Capacitive does not imply multitouch nor vice versa. This has been true for many years before the current slate craze.