Comments on: Five Reasons Why the iPhone 4 Was Made for Augmented Reality

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By: Thomas Wrobel

Thomas Wrobel — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 13:21:00 +0000

A actual gyroscope?
Its interesting, is it the first phone to have one? Theres some irony there, given that Google has had a Gyroscope hock in their Android code lib’s for ages….but no phone that supports it.

Certainly having hardware gyroscopes is a major step forward for the accuracy of rotations.
Not quite perfect though we are still left with the
1. “identifying north” problem. (magnetic compass’s just arnt that great)
2. Calibration. (As any recent Wii owner can attest too, gyro’s get out of sycn if not calibrated against a referance surface every once inawhile).

Still, its a great step forward for rotational accuracy.

As for the forward facing camera, I can see one killer use for it, if its good enough;

Face tracking!

With face-tracking *and* a backfaceing camera, you could make the the device a true window into another world, where the angle of the scene behind changes as you look around.
Still wouldn’t be completely perfect, but it would be an even greater step up in realistic overlays and immersion factor.

By: Sam sall

Sam sall — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 13:05:57 +0000

Hi,
nice post very informative …the new iPhone is the master of visual arts …And with the enhanced sensors it will make our iPhone experience more intesnse and fun

Thanks