Gestures
Basically, we have two gestures, or three if you count variations on the air-tap. These gestures can be used to instruct the device to do something. Combined with the possibility of placing the cursor on objects by moving your head, we have ways to interact with objects.
First, we have the bloom gesture. As I have explained earlier, this is used to show the main start screen or hide that screen. This gesture is captured by the system and is not really available to us as developers. Compare this gesture with the use of the Windows key on a keyboard; this also generates a system-level command we cannot really use in our applications.
That leaves us with the air-tap. Officially, this is accomplished by having your finger move like a ...
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