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by toddmorey·12y ago·view on hn ↗
I think the subtle tilt-to-scroll paradigm, if it works well, could become widely adopted. It seems to make one-handed scrolling much more approachable without any fingers obscuring content.

Question: Does it seem like it requires the camera system to make it usable or could it be done reliably with just the accelerometers now common in smart phones?

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It's been done before. Instapaper on iOS has had tilt scrolling for years. It works fine, it's just not a very useful feature.
They also need to know (z-axis) how far the face is away from the phone. So gyroscopes are not sufficient.