Amazon Fire Phone 3D features
The Amazon phone
screen has an interface called Dynamic Perspective that adjusts a
3D-like view of the screen to match users' head position. Lockscreens
and wallpapers have a 3D effect, though that's not all.
Bezos
demonstrated on stage how the device could render a building on a map
in Dynamic Perspective. The building - the Empire State, to be exact -
was rendered in a three-dimensional sort of way and moved as the user
moved. It was a neat trick of animation, though not the
reach-out-and-grab 3D of our youth.
Neatly, in maps, you
can tilt the phone to see what's "tucked" information that lives on
another layer, like Yelp ratings and reviews, and see under and around
edges.
The fun doesn't stop there. Fire Phone also lets
you one-handed tilt through a line-up of items you may be shopping for,
like women's dresses, in the Amazon Shopping app. You can also
auto-scroll through an article, a web browser or ebooks, and tilting in
Amazon Music reveals song lyrics.
And Dynamic Perspective
seems acutely tuned to games, making the images you see on screen pop
out and forcing you to maneuver around them just by moving your head.
Dynamic
Perspective is good at recognizing what's a human head and what's not,
and there will even be an SDK for the feature so app developers can
3D-ify their games and offerings.
Bezos explained
onstage in Seattle that in the early days of the Fire Phone, Amazon went
so far as to make its own headset to emulate 3D effects. That's not
really practical for real-life, Amazon concluded, which is perhaps a
little jibe at Google Glass.
To
solve the 3D issue, Amazon did indeed stick four front-facing cameras
on each corner of its phone. No matter what angle it's being held at,
two cameras will always be facing the user, Bezos claimed. They are of
the infrared variety - ultra-low power, Amazon swears - so they work in
darkness.
The Dynamic Perspective system also relies on four infrared LEDs on the front to compliment the cameras.
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