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According to this reviewer the new BMWiX M60 needs some work on it's gesture control.
The iX M60 also has what BMW calls Natural Interaction that allows some audio functions to be operated using gestures. Point at the screen and spin a finger clockwise to increase the volume, anti-clockwise to decrease. A swipe of your hand one way skips to the next track, the other way back a track.
Honestly, though, it doesn’t work well. It’s hard to know if the camera has picked up your spinning digit, so inevitably you spin longer and the volume goes too high. Or it doesn’t sense your track-skipping wave so you do it again and again, feeling more foolish every time.
These systems put me in mind of Volkswagen’s capacitive touch sliders that were also meant to be an advance in human-machine interaction, but VW has agreed it was a mistake and is going back to buttons for the future. I guess it’s hard to beat the simplicity and speed of the humble button.
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The iX M60 also has what BMW calls Natural Interaction that allows some audio functions to be operated using gestures. Point at the screen and spin a finger clockwise to increase the volume, anti-clockwise to decrease. A swipe of your hand one way skips to the next track, the other way back a track.
Honestly, though, it doesn’t work well. It’s hard to know if the camera has picked up your spinning digit, so inevitably you spin longer and the volume goes too high. Or it doesn’t sense your track-skipping wave so you do it again and again, feeling more foolish every time.
These systems put me in mind of Volkswagen’s capacitive touch sliders that were also meant to be an advance in human-machine interaction, but VW has agreed it was a mistake and is going back to buttons for the future. I guess it’s hard to beat the simplicity and speed of the humble button.
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