{"id":398329,"date":"2017-09-12T01:19:40","date_gmt":"2017-09-11T17:19:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2017\/09\/11\/4k-apple-tv-revamped-siri-remote\/"},"modified":"2017-09-12T01:19:40","modified_gmt":"2017-09-11T17:19:40","slug":"new-4k-apple-tv-could-feature-revamped-siri-remote-with-haptic-feedback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/new-4k-apple-tv-could-feature-revamped-siri-remote-with-haptic-feedback\/","title":{"rendered":"New 4K Apple TV Could Feature Revamped Siri Remote With Haptic Feedback"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apple is planning to introduce a new 4K-compatible Apple TV at tomorrow&#8217;s event, and the revamped fifth-generation set-top box could also include a redesigned Siri Remote that features haptic feedback.<\/p>\n<p>Developer <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/_inside\/status\/907285172453863424\">Guilherme Rambo<\/a> dug into leaked golden master software that was released over the weekend and found &#8220;actuator calibration&#8221; and &#8220;force calibration&#8221; references, suggesting haptic feedback for the remote.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.macrumors.com\/article-new\/2017\/09\/4kappletvsiriremote.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"412\" height=\"294\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-587503\"\/><\/p>\n<p><center readability=\"0.65891472868217\"><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-cards=\"hidden\" data-lang=\"en\" readability=\"3.2945736434109\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Looks like the new Apple TV remote will have haptics <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/FY9SYAPRYI\">pic.twitter.com\/FY9SYAPRYI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Guilherme Rambo (@_inside) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/_inside\/status\/907285172453863424\">September 11, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/center><br \/>\nThere&#8217;s been little mention of design changes to the upcoming Apple TV, so it&#8217;s not clear if the new Siri Remote will feature the same look and feel as the remote for the fourth-generation Apple TV or if there will be other design changes included alongside haptic feedback.<\/p>\n<p>Haptic feedback is designed to provide tactile feedback when interacting with a device, letting users know a press or tap has been registered by the user interface. Apple embraced haptic feedback as a main UI element in the iPhone with the introduction of the Taptic Engine in 2015, but haptic feedback has been used in Macs and iOS devices for years.<\/p>\n<p>The Siri Remote could adopt an iPhone-style Taptic Engine to provide touch-based feedback when activating Siri, browsing through menus, accessing the Home screen, and more.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2017\/09\/11\/4k-apple-tv-a10-fusion-chip-and-3gb-ram\/\">earlier leaks<\/a>, Apple is planning to call its fifth-generation Apple TV the &#8220;Apple TV 4K.&#8221; The device features a three-core A10X Fusion chip and 3GB RAM. It will render natively at 2160p, support a variety of color formats including HDR10 and Dolby Vision, and it will require a 15Mb\/s internet connection for 4K streaming.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple is planning to introduce a new 4K-compatible Apple TV at tomorrow&#8217;s event, and the revamped fifth-generation set-top box could also include a redesigned Siri Remote that features haptic feedback. Developer Guilherme Rambo dug into leaked golden master software that was released over the weekend and found &#8220;actuator calibration&#8221; and &#8220;force calibration&#8221; references, suggesting haptic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5817,"featured_media":398330,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[68,69,59,26],"class_list":["post-398329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-apple","tag-macrumors","tag-media","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5817"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=398329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398329\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/398330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}