Whether it's mapped to a two-finger slide, a scroll wheel, a dial, etc isn't the important part. The novel-feeling part is that as computers get faster and people improve at engineering performant software we can have the software provide results in realtime to analog inputs which makes people feel connected to the software in exciting ways.
A basic example would be a virtual DJ type app that lets you slide across an on-screen LP to scratch forward/backward. Obviously something more visually or conceptually impressive as seen in games which support time rewinding would be closer to the spirit of the post.
I would certainly like to encourage more developers to make use of scrolling/sliding input in unique ways.
A recent example is that some apps support this using the Surface Dial: https://youtu.be/8BJisE80wAc?t=116
Whether it's mapped to a two-finger slide, a scroll wheel, a dial, etc isn't the important part. The novel-feeling part is that as computers get faster and people improve at engineering performant software we can have the software provide results in realtime to analog inputs which makes people feel connected to the software in exciting ways.
A basic example would be a virtual DJ type app that lets you slide across an on-screen LP to scratch forward/backward. Obviously something more visually or conceptually impressive as seen in games which support time rewinding would be closer to the spirit of the post.
I would certainly like to encourage more developers to make use of scrolling/sliding input in unique ways.