Smaller distance between finger tips == smaller abstract distance from what's show on the screen. To "move farther away" you move your fingers farther apart.
It doesn't seem all that odd. Just requires shifting the mental model (as with swiping).
Meanwhile, later in the same video (3:21), they show the same gesture following the more common behavior (widening fingertip distance zoom into a document).
Seems like something that should be configurable per program (though I think cross-app consistency would make things easier for me).
This seems like one of those things people will eternally argue about, much like 3rd person video game camera controls and to a lesser extent, plane simulator controls in games viewed from a chase camera.
Smaller distance between finger tips == smaller abstract distance from what's show on the screen. To "move farther away" you move your fingers farther apart.
It doesn't seem all that odd. Just requires shifting the mental model (as with swiping).
Meanwhile, later in the same video (3:21), they show the same gesture following the more common behavior (widening fingertip distance zoom into a document).
Seems like something that should be configurable per program (though I think cross-app consistency would make things easier for me).