3D-like Visuals without Glasses on the iPad & Other Displays

The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) reports on a prototype app by the Engineering Human-Computer Interaction Research group that uses the iPad 2’s front facing camera to track head movements and create a compeling 3D-like visual effect without any special display hardware.

iPad 2 gets glasses-free 3D display using front-facing camera for head tracking


Video courtesy of DocteurCube

However, you don’t need an iPad 2 or the prototype to get an idea of how this visual parallax effect works.

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