This was going to be the "explosive tiles" of the Windows Phone 3D Touch system
One of the rumors that accompanied the legendary McLaren flagship phone (which unfortunately never saw the light of day) was the implementation of the so-called explosive tiles, a special interface designed to accompany the 3D Touch feature, thanks to which it would be possible to control the phone with Kinect-style gestures, without touching the screen.
"And now, thanks to leaks revealed by Windows Central and WindowsBlogItalia, we can know how exactly this system of explosive tiles was going to work.The leaked information comes from developer documentation, which contained instructions on how to implement special tiles that respond before 3D Touch gestures."
"According to this documentation, it would be possible to program a live tile that displays up to 8 sub-tiles around it when you place your finger on it her (without touching the screen). These sub-tiles would provide access to information and related actions. For example, when we put our finger on the Facebook live tile, we would be shown sub-tiles with recent photos, profiles of our best friends, and frequent actions like posting an image, or writing on someone's wall.
To design the explosive tiles, Microsoft would have been inspired by a product that had already been released years ago: the Zune software for PC, which included a similar function called MixView , which displayed content related to an album or artist we selected, using a similar visualization."
It is important to note that these leaks are not proof that Microsoft will incorporate the explosive tiles in Windows 10, they already correspond to documentation old designed for products that finally never saw the market (like the McLaren phone). Even so, it is still possible that a future flagship will incorporate the 3D Touch function, and therefore also something similar to these interactive live tiles, but we will have to wait a couple of months for this release to find out.
Via | Windows Central
