Wednesday, June 18, 2014

Amazon Fire Phone Uses 4 IR Cameras for 3D UI

The Verge, Mashable: Amazon Fire Phone uses four front-facing IR cameras to create a 3D user interface: "Perhaps the most useful application shown off so far is simply tilting the phone to scroll through a web page like The Washington Post or to page through a Kindle book. Of course, we've seen other tilting features before and they've a lot to be desired, but Amazon's demo seems to make these features seem far better than previous attempts. The question will be whether or not the extra processing power and potential battery life drain to run these multiple cameras will be worth it."

Jeff Bezos presents 3D UI features
Posted by Vladimir Koifman at 23:33

10 comments:

  1. AnonymousJune 19, 2014 at 12:44 AM

    Wonder who is sourcing all the cameras for the fire phone??

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    1. Vladimir KoifmanJune 19, 2014 at 7:35 AM

      Rumors:

      http://image-sensors-world.blogspot.co.il/2014/03/amazons-smartphone-rumored-to-have-6.html

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  2. AnonymousJune 19, 2014 at 9:59 AM

    It's extremely ridiculous. Haven't they heard of Gyroscopes. Existing in iPhone and used in tons of apps for many years.

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    1. AnonymousJune 19, 2014 at 12:34 PM

      I assume this is different because its doing it in relation to the users face. The gyroscope alone can't tell that so you would have to set some arbituary level for it to know whether to scroll up or down.

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    2. AnonymousJune 19, 2014 at 5:09 PM

      I don't agree. People don't move their head when using their device. They move the hand with the device. And for showing parallax it more than enough.

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    3. AnonymousJune 19, 2014 at 11:09 PM

      I guess to provide accurate perspective they need to know where the head is and how far it is from the screen. For the tilt-to-scroll feature, gyros/accelerometers are good enough.

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    4. AnonymousJune 24, 2014 at 8:11 PM

      Haven't you heard of patent violation?

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  3. AnonymousJune 19, 2014 at 4:12 PM

    Maybe they should pay something to Johnny Wang :
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LC_KKxAuLQw

    -yang ni

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  4. AnonymousJune 19, 2014 at 4:15 PM

    Sorry it was Johnny LEE not Johnny Wang !
    -yang ni

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  5. AnonymousJune 21, 2014 at 6:43 PM

    Johnny Wang/Lee is clueless.

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