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Re: Amazon Launch Event

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Post by drcode » Wed, Jun 04, 2014, 11:59 PM UTC

User9812 wrote: post #52

domas wrote: post #33

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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.imgu…

clever idea, but that just seems like a really small, inconsequential feature to play up that much...

Re: Amazon Launch Event

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Post by jarkarj » Thu, Jun 05, 2014, 12:04 AM UTC

miralabs wrote: post #60

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.

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.

Re: Amazon Launch Event

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Post by nathannecro » Thu, Jun 05, 2014, 12:28 AM UTC

jarkarj wrote: post #62

miralabs wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"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.

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.

Re: Amazon Launch Event

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Jun 05, 2014, 12:28 AM UTC

jarkarj wrote: post #62

miralabs wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"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.

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.

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Re: Amazon Launch Event

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Post by yanokwa » Thu, Jun 05, 2014, 1:15 AM UTC

It's a phone. You can see the top of the device in their promo video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erUZQ9GK0sE&t=41.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BpVCE7aCMAA_DDJ.png:large has a tweaked screen capture.

Re: Amazon Launch Event

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Post by esbonsa » Thu, Jun 05, 2014, 2:04 AM UTC

Zelphyr wrote: post #36

pnachbaur wrote: post #32

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There is a video under "June 18 | Seattle" on the linked page

Weird. I don't see it. Could be Ghostery or some similar ad blocking plugin I guess.

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"