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Amazon teasing an entirely new device set for an unveiling on June 18th
Posted on 6/4/14 at 3:31 pm
Posted on 6/4/14 at 3:31 pm
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Amazon will launch a new product later this month, and it's promising that it'll be something pretty exciting. Company CEO Jeff Bezos will unveil the new product at an event in Seattle on June 18th, and Amazon has begun teasing the new product with a video of people's reactions to using it — though without showing the device itself. Naturally, they all seem pretty amazed by it. But even though we can't see the device, the people's reactions and movements seem to suggest that the new product includes some sort of 3D experience. "It moved with me," one person says.
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It's long been reported that Amazon is developing a smartphone with a 3D display, and this video seems to suggest that this month could finally be the moment for its unveiling.
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Posted on 6/4/14 at 3:43 pm to Cs
Posted on 6/4/14 at 7:46 pm to Cs
Phone
41 seconds
41 seconds
Posted on 6/4/14 at 9:58 pm to Cs
Please please please be a phone. I'm in need and would be happy to make my switch from apple to amazon.
Posted on 6/5/14 at 9:16 am to Cs
Hopefully they have an amazon prime video app that can be ported over to regular android
Posted on 6/5/14 at 3:36 pm to Cs
looks like a phone or small tablet with some sort of face or eye tracking
Posted on 6/6/14 at 4:17 pm to Cs
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With some heavy modifications, Amazon and OMRON were able to tune the company's Okao Vision offering to deliver its desired stereoscopic GUI. One perk is that rather than have to swipe or waste screen space on pull out menus, users can access them simply by tilting their head up or down or side to side.
OMRON's system uses the phone's IR cameras, its accelerometer, and gyroscope to quickly determine the user's head orientation with respect to the phone face, with little power used in the process. Amazon has reportedly been courting top developers to use a currently secret SDK to produce versions of their apps that take advantage of these extreme 3D parallax effects. It also has redesigns its core apps to take advantage of them.
About the only disappointment is that TechCrunch reports that the phone is indeed going to be 720p (1280x720) in resolution, as some others have suggested. Given that the phone is only 4.7-inches (versus the Android flagship standard of 5 to 5.5 inches), this lower resolution may be less noticeable, though.
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