The iPhone Duo’s windows into Liquid Glass

With the reveal of the new iPhone Duo1, I was delighted to see how iOS was adapted to accommodate the strange, shifting nature of a folding display. How do we communicate the weird turns and tumbles of the hardware not just to the system, but to the user, to prepare them for what their big cumbersome motion will do to the apps they’re interacting with? The answer seems to be a metaphorical separation between the true surface of the software, and the glass windows through which we see them. When you begin to unfold iPhone Duo, the “lip” that you lift up and begin moving is brought further up and above the content, causing that content to appear out of focus, blurry and dim: Of course, this is an effect. If I shoddily re-correct the display’s tilt, this is what the actual screen would display- a doubly-distorted tilt of the image, to counteract the real edge coming closer to the observer. Wacky™! I’m eager to try seeing this with my own eyes on a demo Duo soon… As you cross the event…