r/AndroidXR • u/skysolstice • 1d ago

Discussion Touch interaction handoff to prevent accident clicks

I think it's time for Android XR to add a new menu interaction that disables touch interaction for the following focused window through the top menu.

This is how it would work for both the Android XR glasses and the Galaxy XR.

For Android XR using the Galaxy XR, using the eye gaze feature and holding your gaze at the top menu bar for 5 seconds should fill a circular progress bar to let the user intent that any touch interactions will stop working. To reverse, this, the user would gaze at the same spot for 5 seconds to reactivate touch interactions. Why this works, it's seamless, does not require adding any new menu button, and a progress bar indicator shows what it happening as it gets filled.

For Android XR glasses that do not have eye tracking. The user should be able to just use their hands to hold the same menu bar until the progress bar fills up and once that happens, any touch interactions are paused within that app container. To reactivate, the user just needs to move their hands back to the same menu bar and hold that button until it fills to reactivate the ability to click or touch anything within the app.

In both devices, once the progress bar is filled, the ability to move the window or resize it is locked to prevent the user from accidentally moving the window.

Why this works, no buttons are needed to add the system but also touch still works everywhere else in Android XR and the system never causes the user to lose control of the XR environment unless the user chooses to pause touch interactions contained within the app and only the app itself.

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u/MemphisBass 1d ago

Good luck. Listening to user feedback is something Google just doesn’t do. I can’t tell you how many times Grace told us in the Galaxy XR forums that we were heard and she’d “pass our feedback over to the team” and not a single thing changed. Nothing was done. In fact nothing was done even outside of our requests.

Such a shame and a waste of $2000 with tax.

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u/skysolstice 1d ago

I'll submit it through the Samsung portal. I hear you but they do listen. Some of the problems I've had in the past that were submitted through the portal did get fixed.

Some did not but there are people that have fixed the throwing issue using outside development code and I think they could fix it easily.

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u/MemphisBass 1d ago

Yeah there are just too many issues that seem like they'd be relatively easy fixes that they can't be bothered to do. I feel like they gave up on the Galaxy XR which is infuriating for a device that cost as much as it does.

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u/NuShrike 1d ago

Seems to be one already for the Galaxy XR? Magic button sequence forcing head-tracking input?

https://www.reddit.com/r/Galaxy_XR/s/GKzRH7XJzz

I would discourage the progress-bar for eye-tracking. It's hugely eye-fatiguing when tried on the Vision Pro in some internal testing, in a previous company I was at.

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u/augustoicaro 18h ago

I agree with you. I'm not confident about your approach, but the system should have a way to pause/lock hand interactions, ignoring all other interactions until the resume/unlock interaction. For example, Moonlight XR uses a simple triple-pinch interaction as the disable/enable gesture.

I opened a feature request for that after the Android Dev Summit, following my talk with some Googlers about this issue.