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Something tells me that Dynamic Perspective, as implemented on the Fire phone, might not have been an entirely awful experience to implement. A couple of points
by scythe 12y ago
Something tells me that Dynamic Perspective, as implemented on the Fire phone, might not have been an entirely awful experience to implement. A couple of points:
* Amazon isn't known for wasting time or money. They wouldn't have delayed the release of their first-ever phone for an expensive gimmick. Sticking a cheap gimmick on within time requirements is doable.
* 3D rendering is, well, a solved problem. Accelerometers have been incorporated into phone UIs for more than five years. Even facial detection is in most modern digital cameras. Tying these things together doesn't require sending a whole lot of information back and forth -- you just update a couple of vectors representing estimates of phone location and head location.
I wouldn't be too surprised, given Amazon's track record, to find that Dynamic Perspective started as kind of a "why not?". If people can make cool things out of it, they'll keep it: it might be partially a trick to get developers to target the device, and to make interesting things out of it. If not, it won't be missed.
- gambiting 12y ago>>Even facial detection is in most modern digital cameras. Tying these things together doesn't require sending a whole lot of information back and forth -- you just update a couple of vectors representing estimates of phone location and head location. The problem is, that it's just not good enough. Even the Kinect 2, which from a developers perspective is a fantastic tool and I have never seen anything as good as it when it comes to full body tracking, it also sometimes messes up. And as a customer, I don't want gadgets in my phone that work 90% of the time. If I want to use the Dynamic Perspective and it works 9/10 times, it's just not good enough - I would rather turn it off.
- lnanek2 12y agoImplementation time is basically nothing. People have been doing this on iOS for 3 years now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9l7Y4UcTd1k https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9l7Y4UcTd1k And similarly I've been playing with it on Android, although I found the camera wasn't even really needed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtWiTIJFkrw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtWiTIJFkrw
- josephpmay 12y agoActually, quite the opposite. Apparently the phone was delayed for years in order to get Dynamic Perspective just right. [source] http://mobile.businessweek.com/articles/2014-06-25/how-amazons-product-design-is-governed-by-the-whims-of-jeff-bezos http://mobile.businessweek.com/articles/2014-06-25/how-amazo...