[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBQQEcfkHoE[/youtube]
Some students of the informatics laboratory in Grenoble thought of putting the front camera of the iPad 2 tablet to work, so they designed a very ingenious system that allows us to watch 3D content, specially made, on the tablet without the need for 3D glasses . Interface uses the front camera of the tablet to determine the position of our head in relation to the objects displayed on the screen so that when we move the tablet, the effects of the elements on the screen change depending on the viewing angle. The whole interface is very interesting and very, very well made, but we are not talking about a 3D experience in the true sense of the word.
We track 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.
Practically everything Grenoble has done only creates the impression that we are looking at 3D elements when in fact what we see there is only an emulation of this effect. 3D content in the true sense of the word could only be viewed on the iPad tablet with special glasses because the screen does not allow viewing in any other way. Anyway, what you see in the clip above is very interesting and could be a starting point for future applications for iDevices.
