This promises to become an increasingly popular mobile trend throughout 2015. In short, real users can help inform developers on whether or not the core concept is worth their time to flesh out into a grander, fully-realized title. Much like myself, designers should prepare for creating rapid-fire, simple productions as risk prevention becomes a development strategy in tandem with cross-platform releases. 4. Dynamic Perspective Youtube video (via PC Mag) Apps and games utilizing 3D interfaces via Dynamic Perspective will begin to appear during 2015. Debuted in June 2014 on the Amazon Fire, this technology uses multiple cameras within the device to track the user’s face and then adjusts the position of content, layered at varying depths, according to the movement of the user’s head.
This creates the illusion that you are no longer simply looking at a flat screen, but rather looking through a window. This new technology has the benefit of giving an instant WOW factor to your users as they navigate your app to special leads and mentions the obvious implications for mobile gaming, such as seeing around corners by actually looking around with your device. This innovation will bring a much greater sense of immersion and open new avenues for experiments with gameplay mechanics. Gone are the days in which the edges of the phone are the edges of your creative canvas. It’s time for designers to think beyond this, along with the possibility of other new tactile screen technologies in the near future, which will put a halt on the concept of the screen being a flat, 2D space. Designers can no longer plan on the singular, glassy, feel of a screen and must consider adding textures – both visual and physical – into their design works.
Frame and consider the larger virtual world that your user will be immersed in. Immersion leads the way in haptic feedback technology (via Immersion)Companies, such as Immersion, are leading the trend towards the accessibility of haptic feedback technologies (actual kinesthetic reactions to tablet touch) across devices. These APIs, with a wide array of customizable vibrations, give a different feel for different button presses – such as rapid pulsing vibrations for machine guns or a single, powerful vibration for when you are hit. Although only Android currently allows for this level of API access to the phone’s vibration settings, Apple is expected to open up the same options at some point in the future.