It is amazing how new and recently-released hardware is able to unleash the creativity of innovators all around the world. With the use of iPad 2’s and iPhone 4’s front facing cameras, Jeremie Francone and Laurence Nigay of the Engineering Human-Computer Interaction (EHCI) research group of Laboratory of Informatics of Grenoble, have figured out a way to simulate a 3D effect on these two devices without the use of stereoscopic or anaglyph 3D glasses.
The system invented by European engineers tracks the head of the user with the front facing camera in order to create a glasses-free monocular 3D display. Such spatially-aware mobile display enables to improve the possibilities of interaction. It does not use the accelerometers and relies only on the front camera which tracks the exact location of the user’s head and renders view dependent images on the screen to create a realistic illusion of depth and space.
Check out the video below to have a taste of this impressive idea in action.
Source: http://www.macstories.net
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