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In Between Touch and Gesture: The Underhyped Area of Hover Touch

How does hover touch fit into the next-gen controls landscape?

Last month, Apple filed a patent for a display that detects hovering gestures and enables users to interact with the device without directly touching it. While this concept may seem new, other big players already made hover touch (or proximity touch) commercially available in 2012.   The Floating touch feature in Sony’s Xperia Sona smartphone enabled users to select links and bring up popup menus by hovering over them at a distance of 20 mm from the display. Samsung also introduced a similar c...

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