I'm going to get downvoted for this, but this video is hilarious when you imagine they're trying out some sort of sex toy attachment. Just watch it again with that in mind.
I kind of suspect Amazon knew this when they were making it.
Remember their free-publicity drones segment on 60 minutes that made Amazon Prime go apeshit right before Black Friday? They've got a very clever marketing department.
Furthermore, this is exactly the kind of thing that would
(a) Drive traffic that otherwise wouldn't care to a promo for a video about another goddamn smartphone
(b) Convince whoever watches it, even if purely for entertainment value, that this is a totally different phone and worth paying attention to (like the opposite of when I keep ignoring Samsung or whoever's "THE NEXT BIG THING" every two months...yeah, whatever, the screen is a different size or something)
If they just announced "we're making a smartphone guys - here's a video!" it wouldn't be nearly as huge. I wouldn't be surprised if this gets on the front page of reddit purely because it's hilarious when you misinterpret it.
I'm actually thinking this is either "Kinect" on a tablet and/or eye tracking. The application specifically talks about additional sensors. being used to build apps. I'm not sure head tracking is a strong use case for additional apps. But something with the depth of MS's Kinect or eye tracking could be really interesting.
I was thinking that 4 cameras seems a little excessive when you only really need one for head tracking. But maybe it has 4 and uses one at a time - switching between them when/if one is covered.
Well, you need only need 1 camera for lateral tracking, but I believe you need at least 2 cameras for depth tracking. Possibly a third for eye tracking and a fourth for Skype.
Those people are just watching some wild footage of it on some tablet, the teaser is there to just throw people off the scent, gyroscopes etc: must be the drone.
Should I place a bet on that or would I be best to go with the 3d eye-tracking kindle-phone?
Whilst everyone else is 'how high?' jumping to the latest Amazon hype event as if it really mattered, I regurgitate their last 'hype event' and get a wave of downvotes with people thinking I must be that retarded to think it really is the drone.
Do you have things like comedy in America or is everything that bad it has to be serious about everything nowadays?
Yep, it's definitely a phone sized device, and you can see her scrolling with her finger in the reflection, so it's a touch screen. Now, what's actually unique about it that separates it from the millions of similar devices, I guess we'll have to wait and see. Perhaps the display stays square to your head? I mean, if you're viewing the screen at a slight angle, it skews the perspective to look straight?
There's a quick photoshop of a phone at an angle and the display square. Now, you wouldn't purposely use the phone at such an extreme angle, but when you're typing, playing games, in bed, etc, it might make things easier to use. Fairly straightforward, it would just be tracking the location of your head, and adjust the perspective of the display.
We still can't rule out a phone, though. For this type of video they don't necessarily use the real device. Another possibility (as suggested by the questions in the form) is that it's a sensor applicable to many types of devices.
Everyone is tilting their head or the device. Definitely something related to a 3D interface, but it has to be something more that just a 3D interface.
It's rumoured to be a phone with a 3D display - but I don't see why I would want that. It's certainly a cool USP but it seems like gimmick that will quickly lose attention. Maybe they've found a use for it I haven't thought of but I don't know anyone who has been requesting a 3D display on their phone.
> I don't know anyone who has been requesting a 3D display on their phone.
Well, 7 years ago I didn't know anyone who was asking to eliminate physical keyboards from phones.
I'm less skeptical of the merit of the idea (whatever exactly it turns out to be), than I am of Amazon's first generation implementation (based on owning 1st gen versions of Kindle eReader and Kindle Fire).
So does the phones without physical keyboards, using touch pens, until Apple figured out how to eliminate that damn pen and just use fingers and here we are today. I give it a benefit of doubt - I doubt that what has been done to 3d displays is all what can be done ;)
The illusion that the display is a window into another parallel 3D world might prove very useful once developers & users know how to exploit it.
Tilting the phone to see 'under' the current foreground might be a way to show next-messages, pending-notifications, etc.
Add a backside display, and perhaps you'd flip the phone for 'details' - and the eye-tracking ensures that usually, only one side is powered at a time.
Or what if each side of a telepresence-connection is being live-mapped with technology like:
"Man, we have no clue what they're going to announce. Whatever it is has been completely black-boxed. I'm guessing it might be a 3D projecting phone, but that's based on exactly nothing. Plus, I'm not invited, so... hah."
If there's anything i've learned through the years, if something is actually industry breaking revolutionary... they have no need to hype the launch. It'll get the press after the event.
I'm reminded of the time Opera "Changed the internet"
That would be consistent with previous reports of 3D "sensing" tech on the phone (not sure whether that means gestures, glasses-free 3D screen, or something else).
You don't need any add-ons to selectively block flash nowadays on Firefox... Menu - Add-ons - Plugins - Flash "Ask to activate" instead of "Always activate"
I hope not - an application that does something that looks almost like video already available to any modern phone and requires motion to be displayed? Hardly worth the launch event, hype, marketing money&effort and doesnt seem any way revolutionary or cool to me. But of course, I might be absolutely wrong about it and that's cool too.
