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Is Apple Planning a 3D iPhone?

Apple was recently awarded a US patent for a stereoscopic three-dimensional display system that doesn’t require glasses, reported Patently Apple.

A scan of the convoluted wording of the patent file reveals a few key points:

1) Left and right eye sub-images are modulated to provide three dimensional images without the need for special glasses.

2) Multiple observers can be accommodated independently and simultaneously.

3) The display will use real time tracking of observers’ eye positions to enable realistic horizontal and vertical parallax.

4) A system of tiny-pixel sized mirrored domes are used that are able to change angle based on viewing position.

It’s easy to imagine applications in personal devices such as iPhone or iPad. 3D FaceTime and augmented reality apps definitely spring to mind. However, with the emphasis on multiple observers, it is definitely plausible Apple is working on 3D desktop displays or something entirely different as well.

[Thanks: http://news.yahoo.com]

Report claims RIM was incredulous over Apple’s original iPhone

An alleged former employee of Research in Motion has revealed that RIM was incredulous over the original iPhone when Apple first unveiled the smartphone in January of 2007, according to a new report.

The BlackBerry maker reportedly held multiple “all-hands meetings” the day after the first-generation iPhone was announced, MacNN reports.

According to Shacknews poster Kentor, employees at RIM and Microsoft were “utterly shocked” by the iPhone. RIM was allegedly “in denial” about the iPhone, claiming “it couldn’t do what they were demonstrating without an insanely power hungry processor, it must have terrible battery life, etc” Kentor wrote.

“Imagine their surprise when they disassembled an iPhone for the first time and found that the phone was battery with a tiny logic board strapped to it,” the post read.

Apple introduced the revolutionary mobile phone on January 9, 2007. At the time, Apple chief executive Steve Jobs asserted that the smartphone was “literally five years ahead of any other mobile phone.”

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