First there were screens, then there were touch screens, then there were touch screens that detect the force of pressure (Apple's 3D Touch technology), now we have the promise of touch screens that can be controlled remotely, as they detect the user's skin as conductive, even before we even touch the screen. Introducing Microsoft's Pre-Touch technology.
Something similar to what he's trying to do today Microsoft with technology Pre-Touch, Samsung already succeeded with the feature years ago Air View for Galaxy Note. Namely, the screen already detected the pen when we just measured against it. Microsoft possibility of controlling the touch screen remotely transferred to the finger, as the Pre-Touch technology detects the movement of the hands around the screen, knows how (hard) we hold the device and predicts where we will touch the screen before we actually do it.
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Pre-Touch technology offers new options for interacting with the screen, which will no longer necessarily need to be touched. It also detects if we approach it with one or two fingers. In the latter case, it offers additional options which shorten operations from two or longer touches to a single touch. You can see how the technology works in practice in the clip above.
