iHologram Looks Remarkable, but Is it Real?

[design-is]

Hope its real... this stuff will start convincing the world outside this forum of just how amazing the iPhone is.

 

[junker]

Looks incredible! I really hope it's true...
I am suspicious as well though. Someone who notes they are not a coder but an artist can do this??

Makes me think it's a proof of concept... I challenge him to release it and make it available to all to experience on our own phone.

 

[MattyMac]

It isn't that good of a fake job. It still looks like a cat walking in an LCD screen. I didn't get a sense of depth from the video at all.

I second that.

 

[MacTheSpoon]

That looks really, really cool.

 

[Churc22]

Looks cool and I hope its real, but I will just add to the speculation that its fake...what if he created a video of what we were watching, put it on his phone, and just turned his hand at the correct moments to create the illusion that he was using some sort of app that was reacting to his movements?

 

[deannnnn]

Okay, so this video started and I was like oh man this is real, but as I continued to watch, I started thinking about all the ways that this could be faked... so now I don't know... But I'm excited to find out!!!

 

[evilyankeefan]

Imagine the possibilities if this was true. "Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi; you're my only hope."

How wicked would that be? George would have it removed in 10 minutes though.

 

[stagi]

Would be cool if its real

 

[bobjob186]

watch it in high def, you can see the smudges he makes on the screen with his finger.... guaranteed real. boom

 

[zombitronic]

a compass is a device or mechanism that points north. the compass free app does point north, although a better version would use gps/wifi triangulation to simulate a compass needle that moves/ points north when launched. but the developer wanted something universal and simple. thus compass free app was born, no triangulation needed. just sunlight/shadow.

I'm not sure that triangulation or GPS could even do that. That would have to be some INSANELY accurate GPS. Your best bet would be a digital, or solid state compass:

Solid state compasses

Small compasses found in clocks, phones, e.g., the Nokia, and other electronic gear are solid-state devices, usually built out of two or three magnetic field sensors that provide data for a microprocessor. Using trigonometry the correct heading relative to the compass is calculated.

Often, the device is a discrete component which outputs either a digital or analog signal proportional to its orientation. This signal is interpreted by a controller or microprocessor and used either internally, or sent to a display unit. An example implementation, including parts list and circuit schematics, shows one design of such electronics. The sensor uses highly calibrated internal electronics to measure the response of the device to the Earth's magnetic field.

I'm hoping for one in the next iPhone.

 

[Bevz]

a compass is a device or mechanism that points north. the compass free app does point north, although a better version would use gps/wifi triangulation to simulate a compass needle that moves/ points north when launched. but the developer wanted something universal and simple. thus compass free app was born, no triangulation needed. just sunlight/shadow.

The iPhone definitely can't detect compass direction. I think you can get purely GPS based compasses but to the best of my knowledge i think the snag is you have to be moving for it to work; you can't stand still and spin on the spot..

 

[wesk702]

There's a compass applications in the iTunes store and if that works, it should be possible to let the animated figure walk into specified direction, i.e. North.

Compass Application

that compass app is a piece of **** lol

its pretty much a sun dial

 

[iSimx]

I'm not sure whether this is real but I have a feeling not. However I don't see why this can't work. Except for rotating horizontally which that can't work as the sensors only measure vertical movements. Anyway someone could easily make something with the same effect but vertically.

Maybe not.

 

[Churc22]

watch it in high def, you can see the smudges he makes on the screen with his finger.... guaranteed real. boom

How does that guarantee it is real?

 

[slapppy]

I hope it's real... I'd love to see this on some kind of wicked game.

 

[maknik]

If the table is somewhat tilted, this isn't very hard to believe. You don't have to change the tilt of the table -- as the iPhone rotates, its virtual pendulum will tell it its orientation by indicating which way is down-slope.

 

[mrrydogg]

When he holds the camera that he is using to tape this at the end of the video you can tell that the table is slanted. He doesn't have to tilt it that much to show the camera. I am gonna say real. People that say this isn't even a good fake, have no experience in effects. The shadows and glare change and affect the image. The character clips the edge of the screen multiple times. Its not that hard of an app in theory, just a creative one. So many skeptics out there!

 

[gbrandt]

It can be real....

Go to the app store, get the Dual Level App (free). run it and place your phone or touch on a flat table and spin it. It does not take much of a spin to get some data from the accelerometers.

Gregor

 

[dizastor]

Pretty neat but as the title states... Is it Real?

More importantly, Will it Blend?

 

[thecartoonguy]

Imagine the possibilities if this was true. "Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi; you're my only hope."

How wicked would that be? George would have it removed in 10 minutes though.

THAT WOULD ROCK!

 

[timdorr]

Mach Dice does a similar effect, so it's entirely real: http://gadgets.boingboing.net/2008/08/21/mach-dice-roll-for-i.html

It's just reading the accelerometer values and adjusting the camera angle accordingly. Nothing different from what the Wii remote does in a 3d space.

 

[sushi]

If real, I want it.

However, gut feeling says fake.

 

[sandman42]

Looks like a hoax to me.

-The iPhone can't sense rotation-

-Looked like that character is imposed on the screen-

-Fun AfterEffects project for some n00b-

Although the iPhone can't detect angular acceleration (rotation), it can tell how it is oriented with respect to gravity -- it always knows which way 'down' is (unless it's experiencing simultaneous accelerations that make that ambiguous, including free fall). If you place the iPhone on an angled surface it will know which way down is, and will know how that changes if you rotate it -- so it can detect rotation within the constraint of its own plane when placed on an angled surface.

Think about the Labyrinth app -- if you place the phone on an angled surface the ball will roll 'down', and if you rotate the phone the ball will roll to the new 'down'. That's how an app like the hologram one could detect changes in angular position (rather than actual 'rotation'), and why people keep commenting about how they don't understand how it appears to be on a horizontal surface (where angular position detection wouldn't work).

 

[sandman42]

the compass free app does point north, although a better version would use gps/wifi triangulation to simulate a compass needle that moves/ points north when launched.

iPhone/Touch can't do this. Although they can determine their position (by GPS and/or triangulation), they have no way to tell their angular orientation relative to the compass points (which are perpendicular to gravity) at that position. The application that uses position data (to determine latitude and longitude) and time (to determine the sun's position) can then do the geometry to show you which way north is, but there's no sensor in the iPhone/Touch that can do this solely with the position data that's available internally.

 

[Shadowriver]

iHologram is not first hologram simulation app you don't remember 3d dices hologram:

https://www.macrumors.com/iphone/20...rs-arbitrarily-sided-dice-rolling-simulation/

It work in same idea as iHologram ;]