Head Tracking App Now Available On iOS – And It Works!

11 responses to “Head Tracking App Now Available On iOS – And It Works!”

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   brent3000

   May 24, 2011 at 10:35 am

   That looks nice 😀

   The menu can really be taken to new levels with this if Apple took it a few steps more…

   Would be a good cheap, quick and basic “3d” attempt for ipad 😀

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   Peter Richards

   May 24, 2011 at 10:36 am

   I’ll put money that my giant melon of a head is bigger than yours, I literally cannot purchase hats.

   This is one of those things that evens up the whole 3D thing. If you only have one eye, the effect looks astonishingly 3D. If you have two eyes, it still works, but nowhere near as well, I don’t know why.
   Try it with an eyepatch, it is worth the experience and you get to talk like a pirate for the rest of the day.

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      mattroe

      May 24, 2011 at 10:56 am

      Now I’m no optometrist — or smart — but I’m pretty sure that’s something to do with losing your depth perception when you cover one eye. It’s harder for your brain to tell there’s no actual depth, so it’s more convincing, or something.

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         Effluvium Boy

         May 24, 2011 at 11:19 am

         Pretty much.
         It’s a single image, as opposed to conventional 3D which is made up of two images. So instead of each eye seeing a separate image (as with real life – Each eye sees things from a slightly different perspective), you’re getting the same perspective with both eyes. That makes your brain go “Gyyahh!?”
         Covering up one eye negates the gyah (Science lingo).

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            Malorion

            May 24, 2011 at 11:05 pm

            And for the same reason (except in reverse) that’s why all the other 3D tech is useless to people whose brain *doesn’t* interpret the two images into a 3D image. You’d be surprised at just how many people can’t see 3D.

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   DENAz

   May 24, 2011 at 11:18 am

   First time I’ve seen it, looks extremely cool 🙂

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4. 

   Dave

   May 24, 2011 at 11:38 am

   Works heaps better on the iPad2 than on the iPhone4. It doesn’t track me on the iPhone but iPad rox.

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5. 

   FatShady

   May 24, 2011 at 12:31 pm

   iphone 4… I have a fat head!

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6. 

   James

   May 24, 2011 at 12:49 pm

   I too have an oversized head.
   It’s really difficult to buy a decent hat.

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   1. 

      Stephen Rushbrook

      May 24, 2011 at 1:16 pm

      tell me about it.. my huge noggin (64) means if I want a decent hat I have to special order (think wait three months…)

      and yeh.. didn’t work that well on the iPhone 4

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   mjt

   May 24, 2011 at 1:00 pm

   yeah while it looks awesome in the video i had a tough time getting it to show the correct perspective on my iphone4.
   probably didnt help that when it was capturing my head it seemed to include my neck (and some of my chest).
   :s

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