3D images in your hand [BBC News]
May 6, 2002 — by LinuxDevices Staff — from the LinuxDevices Archive — viewsMark Ward of BBC News Online reports that Microsoft researchers in the UK are developing an innovative new way to allow handhelds to display large and three dimensional images and documents on their limited size screens, based on motion sensing technology . . .
” . . . Researchers at Microsoft's Cambridge campus in the UK are putting sensing devices used to trigger airbags into handhelds to help create virtual 3D images on the computers' screens.”
“When a handheld fitted with the sensor is angled, its screen shows different parts of an image giving a pseudo-3D effect.”
“It also allows the palmtop computer to display pictures and documents far larger than would otherwise fit on the small screen . . .”
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