APPLE INSIDER
Rather than reintroducing the previous Force Touch where a surface detects pressure, Apple is investigating how wearables such as gloves can turn regular surfaces into touch-sensitive ones, perhaps for Apple AR.
Apple is again researching gloves that, in part, resemble those worn by Tom Cruise in Minority ReportMaybe it didn’t help that Apple sometimes called it Force Touch, and sometimes 3D Touch. But whatever the reason, not enough people were even aware that you could press hard on a device to control it.
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