Is there anything discernible in the reflection on the hipster-glasses at 0:42?
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Amazon Launch Event
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#12Split discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7847951
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#13It'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 wouldn't mind it, assuming that this would have no effect on the already bad battery life of those.
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#14All the head moving made me think back to Jonny Lee's wiimote headtracking 3d display. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jd3-eiid-Uw Perhaps Amazon have an eye tracking system which can do the same with out the need for the user to be wearing infra red leds?
Yeah I was coming here to say the same thing. Seems like it is definitely doing some sort of motion tracking.
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#15It'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).
The thing is 3d screens have been a tested quantity (both on things like the 3DS and on a lot of phones in Japan). It's been far from a hit.
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#16Everyone 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.
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#17Is there anything discernible in the reflection on the hipster-glasses at 0:42? ... enhance ...
http://i.imgur.com/oe2f1pP.png
Tough to see much, but you do see a shadow of her hand and the proportions indicate to me a tablet-sized device not a phone.
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#18The questions here in the form certainly give some hints about what it's about: "Are you interested in developing apps utilizing a new type of sensor?" "Describe an innovative way in which you have used gyroscopes, accelerometers, or other device sensors in your app development."
The clue is in the title: it is the drone!
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?
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#19All the head moving made me think back to Jonny Lee's wiimote headtracking 3d display. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jd3-eiid-Uw Perhaps Amazon have an eye tracking system which can do the same with out the need for the user to be wearing infra red leds?
I've never seen that video before, so thanks for posting it.
Yes, the head movement in the Amazon video makes it look like head tracking/perspective changes built in to the device. But what for?
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#20From the head moving and what they're saying about it, it's definitely this: