How about a preview for the forward facing camera? Select it and the large preview switches to the front camera, the rear camera now becomes the smaller preview window? Sounds very plausible to me.
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iPhone Video Recording Interface, Digital Compass, Voice Control and Auto-Focus Camera
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How about a preview for the forward facing camera? Select it and the large preview switches to the front camera, the rear camera now becomes the smaller preview window? Sounds very plausible to me.
Would be cool if the video compression rate would automatically go up if the accelerometer feels much movement. This way, if you do quick turns or pans, the recording bitrate could go up. Even on high end consumer cameras, you notice the artifacts on this kind of motion.
Modern video compression works by having a keyframe (a fully stored picture) followed by frames where only the differences to the keyframe and the movement and color shift of previous frames are stored. This means if your camera is on a tripod and only a small object on the video is moving, you can set the compression very high. Panning on zooming is bad here, because there's new objects coming into view that haven't been there in the keyframe. Hard cuts actually look terrible if the first image after the cut isn't a keyframe.
Modern video compression works by having a keyframe (a fully stored picture) followed by frames where only the differences to the keyframe and the movement and color shift of previous frames are stored. This means if your camera is on a tripod and only a small object on the video is moving, you can set the compression very high. Panning on zooming is bad here, because there's new objects coming into view that haven't been there in the keyframe. Hard cuts actually look terrible if the first image after the cut isn't a keyframe.
I believe he meant that people jailbreak their current iPhones in order to get these features. If one has an iPhone 3G that is jailbroken and has cut/copy/paste (clippie), MMS (Swirly), video recording (Cycorder or iPhonevideorecorder3G), et al and there isn't much of a difference hardware wise with the new iPhone in June, and they can't get an upgrade option, then some may not upgrade and save the $$$. Sure, having these applications officially available is great, but when they're already available in some form on the current iPhone, why waste the funds?
Personally, I would still jailbreak it as the main reason for me is theming, I like the options given to me through Winterboard, but that's just me.
You mean this kind of stuff in real-time?
It's cool, but I don't think it's very handy to be walking with your iPhone in front of you all the time. This is great in HUD-sunglasses, I wonder when that'll be available.
By the way, I don't think the iPhone will have the power to do this kind of stuff in real-time.
Funny thing is, that's essentially real life. Signs in front of stores and arrows painted on the roadway have the exact same effect. You're just overlaying a bitmap on top of it.
Nice, these are very logical Apple features. But adding flash in the back is something for 4G. Apple just can't give out all features in this release.
I wonder why apple doesn't want to make its own Turn-by-Turn App.
I wonder why apple doesn't want to make its own Turn-by-Turn App.
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I'm really looking forward to this update. Bring it on.
I'm really looking forward to this update. Bring it on.
The video we all knew about from the previous icons and youtube upload page.
The real meat of this article is the magnetometer & voice control.
The Magnetometer will make turn by turn far more accurate and the augmented reality stuff like street view on the Android G1 is very useful.
But the one that`s got me buzzin is voice control. You cannot legally make a phone call from iPhone whilst driving a car. Having a bluetooth headset or integrated into your car means at least now you can say `Call Jonny Ive` and the phone can respond with `I do not understand Jo`s got Hives, please repeat your command`
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The real meat of this article is the magnetometer & voice control.
The Magnetometer will make turn by turn far more accurate and the augmented reality stuff like street view on the Android G1 is very useful.
But the one that`s got me buzzin is voice control. You cannot legally make a phone call from iPhone whilst driving a car. Having a bluetooth headset or integrated into your car means at least now you can say `Call Jonny Ive` and the phone can respond with `I do not understand Jo`s got Hives, please repeat your command`
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You mean this kind of stuff in real-time?
It's cool, but I don't think it's very handy to be walking with your iPhone in front of you all the time. This is great in HUD-sunglasses, I wonder when that'll be available.
You wouldn't need to hold it in front of your face the whole time, but it would be useful to access navigation like this when you need it.
Maybe, maybe not, but the fact that a magnetometer is mentioned gives a promising outlook for future features. There are older WinMo devices that can do this, so I wouldn't immediately put it past a new iPhone.
iPhone 3.0
if anyone knows how to enable this for us developers, then iPhone 3.0 will be amazingly awesome.... (in addition to the hacks we already enabled for MMS and Tethering...)
if anyone knows how to enable this for us developers, then iPhone 3.0 will be amazingly awesome.... (in addition to the hacks we already enabled for MMS and Tethering...)
The more I hear, the happier I am that I've been enjoying my 2G iphone for two years and will be eligible for an upgrade to this marvelous new toy this summer.
yeah - I've needed to save my money that long...
Basically it is a little sensor built-in inside the iPhone that works exactly like a compass... and display it...
that's about it....
I think this is great news if it comes to light! With all of the add ons that are coming from the 3.0 this is looking pretty darn good!!!
It's getting harder and harder not to plan for an upgrade this summer
The new features sound great!
WOW, that's exactly what Apple wants. We all fall for it like flies on honey. =)
Really? Is there any video material showing that?
Now I'm getting really excited!
I can't find the clip of the WinMo device right now. It was crude, but still shows the possibilities. Here's a clip of a camera that uses both GPS and compass data to augment text on the screen. Again, it's crude, but the hardware is there. Software developers could make some awesome strides with this.
Video Conferencing
Now that video recording rumor has been put to rest - can anyone find out if the next iPhone will include a front-camera to enable video conferencing. If there's truly video-conferencing then several hundred thousand deaf people will buy it to sign to each other via video-conferencing!
Now that video recording rumor has been put to rest - can anyone find out if the next iPhone will include a front-camera to enable video conferencing. If there's truly video-conferencing then several hundred thousand deaf people will buy it to sign to each other via video-conferencing!