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Re: Amazon Launch Event

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Post by Theodores »

Theodores wrote: post #18
0x0 wrote: post #8

The 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?

Humour bypass!

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?

Re: Amazon Launch Event

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Post by User9812 »

domas wrote: post #33
colinbartlett wrote: post #17

Earlier 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.

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?

http://i.imgur.com/ExL1OqV.png

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.

Re: Amazon Launch Event

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Post by krcz »

jwilliams wrote: post #44

Pause at just past 0:41. Woman is wearing a blue top. You can see a very-much phone like device, with a headphone jack.

Also at 0:04, the guy in glasses. It seems to be quite thick for a phone though.

Re: Amazon Launch Event

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Post by Alex_MJ »

eob wrote: post #21

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.

Hell, worked on me.

Re: Amazon Launch Event

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Post by swalsh »

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"

Re: Amazon Launch Event

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Post by mik3y »

3D effects are neat, but I'm betting Amazon is more excited to get a high fidelity eyetracker in your phone.

Instant heatmaps, new types of ad creatives, new ad conversion modes, ...

Re: Amazon Launch Event

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Post by tseabrooks »

clarky07 wrote: post #14
Fuzzwah wrote: post #6

All 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.

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.

Re: Amazon Launch Event

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Post by miralabs »

niico wrote: post #30

They will be launching their smartphone. Source: http://bgr.com/2014/04/15/amazon-smartphone-photos-specs-kin...

"he device houses an additional four front-facing cameras that work with other sensors to facilitate the software’s 3D effects."

I wonder how the battery life of this will be like.

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