The expectations are limitless from RIM on their upcoming savior BlackBerry 10 OS which will release later this year. Past acquisitions made by the company will create a completely new designed BlackBerry platform. Getting an early look of BB10 Superphone & OS previously, the source from N4BB hints another unexpected feature – 3D Virtual Keyboard which is supposedly made by TAT(The Astonishing Tribe), a solid UI professionals from Sweden recently bought by RIM. TAT works has been impressive on the BlackBerry PlayBook & bringing the Cascades to NDK was a huge successor tool for developers to make cool UI effects. The sources revealed:
- BlackBerry 10 has a new 3D virtual keyboard built likely from TAT Cascades. The keyboard mimics the authentic physical BlackBerry keyboard. RIM is also working on implementing a vibration response when keys are hit. They’re calling it ‘vibration feedback’. We’re not sure how this might differ from what is commonly known as haptic feedback.
- Additionally, we’re told that BlackBerry 10 will literally utilize TAT Cascade animations in nearly everything. We’re only going to get a small glimpse in PlayBook OS 2 through 3, but will see it full-blown in BlackBerry 10. So far we’ve seen a small preview of this from those leaked BlackBerry 10 images.
Some of TAT Works
BlackBerry PlayBook Stereoscopic 3D Demo (FireFly Media Manager)
BlackBerry PlayBook WebWorks Demo (VIDEO)
Cascades Demo: Rich UI Development for BlackBerry Apps
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Source: N4BB
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