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Apple iPad 2′s front-facing camera allows for glasses-free 3D (with video)

“Thanks to its front-facing camera, the iPad 2 is capable of producing a glasses-free 3D effect using head-tracking technology,” Killian Bell reports for Cult of Mac.

“Jeremie Francone and Laurence Nigay from the Laboratory of Informatics of Grenoble at the EHCI Research Group have used this technology, along with some really basic applications, to show off what the iPad 2 is capable of when it comes to 3D,” Bell reports.

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Federico Viticci reports for MacStories, “By combining head-tracking technology that uses the iPad’s front facing camera with basic 3D graphics, they have developed a glasses-free 3D experience that doesn’t require the accelerometer, but it’s entirely based on the camera and the movements of a user’s head in front of the screen.”

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[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Arline M.” for the heads up.]

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