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.
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#42Link to video: https://d3d73dg4t65dlz.cloudfront.net/videos/customer_tease_... (it was in the source-code)
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#43At this rate, one day I'm going to buy a house on Amazon.
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#44Pause at just past 0:41. Woman is wearing a blue top. You can see a very-much phone like device, with a headphone jack.
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#45Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
It's definitely a phone in the video: http://i.imgur.com/MgBcxMw.png You can see its top at the bottom of the photo.
Classic geek moment. Enhance the reflection! ...When all you have to do is look down and see the whole damn thing.
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#46Paraphrasing a friend from Amazon:
"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."
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#47Summoning user?id=nilium
Please make your wallpaper [1] work for this phone.
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#48I'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 think this might be the first time I ever LOL'ed from something I've read on HN. Good call.
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#49Earlier quoted context omitted.
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?
You do know that most (maybe all) modern smartphones and tablets have accelerometers in them, which are often gyroscope based, right?
Further, the mass production of such parts due to their inclusion in phones is essentially the reason why inexpensive drones are viable today.
Chris Anderson famously called it the peace dividend of the smartphone wars.
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#50It'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.
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:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ghgbycqb92c
Then, even without a head-worn VR display, your handheld phone/tablet can serve as a roaming-camera into the remote space.