centrifugal force is an illusion. the real forces would be centripetal and tangential. if the force was centrifugal (radially outward) the motion would be radially outward (a line) and not a circle (rotational).
pseudoscience ftl.
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iHologram Looks Remarkable, but Is it Real?
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centrifugal force is an illusion. the real forces would be centripetal and tangential. if the force was centrifugal (radially outward) the motion would be radially outward (a line) and not a circle (rotational).
pseudoscience ftl.
meh.
I agree with you, but you might know... how steep does the angled surface need to be? The lower the better, in my mind. This really looks neat, but it'd be much more like 'coming alive,' if you will, if it could be done on a flat surface. Can the accelerometer + some software manipulation produce the effect?
Then again, wouldn't it be enough if we can rotate it with our fingers like in the video?
Darn, and I really thought that was novel. But wait, fake doesn't mean it's impossible to program, right?
Not sure about multi-touch, which makes more sense on larger devices. But they've already shown pieces of Windows Mobile 7, and one input option is to use the camera to detect 3D movement of the phone... and your command gestures.
As I said previously, this is being done today on other devices. Unfortunately, I can't find an example for you right now, but I'll keep looking.
In a similiar vein, here's a video where a guy used a Wii remote to track your head to emulate 3D images on a flat monitor. (Jump ahead to about 2:35 if you wish.) This would be a cool UI idea to implement in reverse on any phone (iPhone or Nokia or WM type) that has an accelerometer... let you look "behind" file cabinets, etc.
Edit: There'a another variation that's being done as well, where 3D objects are superimposed in realtime on top of the camera image. For example, you could point your camera at a tabletop and little chess pieces would appear on it. As you reach out an arm, the camera and software watch and let you "move" the pieces in realtime... even if you change the camera angle.
Edit again: Aha! Here you go for some examples of "augmented reality". Video here Most here use headtracking and googles, but the techniques are similar to what is being discussed here.
ah well, it's a fake. something like this could have some amazing potential uses, so hopefully someone will get something like this programed.
This is what he said originally:
"Ive just finished coding an application for the iphone/ipod touch. It gives the illusion of a 3d hologram jumping off the screen.
Heres a video of it in use, featuring the Cat from my award-winning but unfinished cartoon PSS:"
I must have missed this whole Augmented Reality thing, but thanks to your link and after some research I've found there's quite a few people working on this type of stuff, including an upcoming ARToolkit for the iPhone.
Exciting stuff!
He did claim it was real, just look at Arns post above he said "Ive just finished coding an application for the iphone/ipod touch" not "I've just finished making a video to show what an application for the iphone/ipod touch could do"
FAKE.
He clearly claimed that it the application was doing the work, hence, a deception. When I originally saw this, it seemed odd that someone who'd accomplished this said that he had "limited programming knowledge."
I'm sure that he generated a lot of traffic for his site, though.
I'm sure that he generated a lot of traffic for his site, though.
Whoopde do, it was technically fake, it was technically bs, it was technically blah blah blah. Get over yourselves. The guy's got the gist of the idea, and needs a programmer (probably a team of programmers). I hope he gets them.
If it drove enough traffic to his site that it got even a few developers thinking 3d, then great. I'd love a simulated 3d environment in the iPhone that wouldn't require headgear to see.
The Dice app is a nice start.
If it drove enough traffic to his site that it got even a few developers thinking 3d, then great. I'd love a simulated 3d environment in the iPhone that wouldn't require headgear to see.
The Dice app is a nice start.
Not Real - but is this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fe5zCUszv0
this one looks real, but its hard I would have thought
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fe5zCUszv0
this one looks real, but its hard I would have thought
its too bad the accelerometer does not take inputs when the unit is flat on a table. no gravity at that axis. a 3d compass would probably be the answer, but i doubt they would drop in a $50 surface mount component for that novelty.
Thanks for the feedback, and the link !
There is so much cool stuff out there that's not in the headlines (yet), it's hard to keep up.