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It's rumoured to be a phone with a 3D display - but I don't see why I would want that. It's certainly a cool USP but it seems like gimmick that will quickly los

It's rumoured to be a phone with a 3D display - but I don't see why I would want that. It's certainly a cool USP but it seems like gimmick that will quickly lose attention. Maybe they've found a use for it I haven't thought of but I don't know anyone who has been requesting a 3D display on their phone.

6cxs2hd6 12y ago
> I don't know anyone who has been requesting a 3D display on their phone. Well, 7 years ago I didn't know anyone who was asking to eliminate physical keyboards from phones. I'm less skeptical of the merit of the idea (whatever exactly it turns out to be), than I am of Amazon's first generation implementation (based on owning 1st gen versions of Kindle eReader and Kindle Fire).
- rtpg 12y ago
  The thing is 3d screens have been a tested quantity (both on things like the 3DS and on a lot of phones in Japan). It's been far from a hit.
  - tachion 12y ago
    So does the phones without physical keyboards, using touch pens, until Apple figured out how to eliminate that damn pen and just use fingers and here we are today. I give it a benefit of doubt - I doubt that what has been done to 3d displays is all what can be done ;)
zeroDivisible 12y ago
I wouldn't mind it, assuming that this would have no effect on the already bad battery life of those.
gojomo 12y ago
The illusion that the display is a window into another parallel 3D world might prove very useful once developers & users know how to exploit it. Tilting the phone to see 'under' the current foreground might be a way to show next-messages, pending-notifications, etc. Add a backside display, and perhaps you'd flip the phone for 'details' - and the eye-tracking ensures that usually, only one side is powered at a time. Or what if each side of a telepresence-connection is being live-mapped with technology like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ghgbycqb92c https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ghgbycqb92c Then, even without a head-worn VR display, your handheld phone/tablet can serve as a roaming-camera into the remote space.

6cxs2hd6 12y ago

> I don't know anyone who has been requesting a 3D display on their phone. Well, 7 years ago I didn't know anyone who was asking to eliminate physical keyboards from phones. I'm less skeptical of the merit of the idea (whatever exactly it turns out to be), than I am of Amazon's first generation implementation (based on owning 1st gen versions of Kindle eReader and Kindle Fire).

rtpg 12y ago
The thing is 3d screens have been a tested quantity (both on things like the 3DS and on a lot of phones in Japan). It's been far from a hit.
- tachion 12y ago
  So does the phones without physical keyboards, using touch pens, until Apple figured out how to eliminate that damn pen and just use fingers and here we are today. I give it a benefit of doubt - I doubt that what has been done to 3d displays is all what can be done ;)

zeroDivisible 12y ago

I wouldn't mind it, assuming that this would have no effect on the already bad battery life of those.

gojomo 12y ago

The illusion that the display is a window into another parallel 3D world might prove very useful once developers & users know how to exploit it. Tilting the phone to see 'under' the current foreground might be a way to show next-messages, pending-notifications, etc. Add a backside display, and perhaps you'd flip the phone for 'details' - and the eye-tracking ensures that usually, only one side is powered at a time. Or what if each side of a telepresence-connection is being live-mapped with technology like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ghgbycqb92c https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ghgbycqb92c Then, even without a head-worn VR display, your handheld phone/tablet can serve as a roaming-camera into the remote space.