Small update from the Programmable Ink track at Ink & Switch — we just launched a page for our Inkling project. (Whisper: actually, maybe a bit more than just a page. Take a peek!)

I've run up a couple of times against the thought that, "I should play with this in Lua Carousel since I don't have an iPad." But it feels like detecting pencil vs finger is a key tech thing random multitouch screens can't emulate?

You can emulate it. We've made versions of our things that run with mouse and keyboard, or single finger touch. But the pen + multitouch input space is what we want to design around for maximum expressivity, so everything else is just fallback.

Oh interesting, so if you touch with a single finger you treat it as a pen input in some devices/scenarios? I could try that 🤔

Yes. For instance in this version of Inkling, you can run it in a phone browser and tap the dot at the top center to toggle pen vs finger.

Ah, so it's a mode 😬 I see the problem.

Yeah. It's something I whipped up quickly at the last Ink&Switch unconf to see if we could run inkling inside Taylor's Vision Pro.